Iyer and Ishan not in the BCCI Central Contract: BCCI announced the central contract on Wednesday, and India’s young guns, Ishan Kishan and Shreyas Iyer, are both excluded. The top tier has remained unchanged, with the likes of Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja, and Jasprit Bumrah being in the A+ category.
A total of 30 men are included in the contract.
Shubman Gill, KL Rahul, and Mohammed Siraj were raised to the Grade A category. Rishab Pant, who was out for a lot of time due to a brutal accident, remains in the B category.
The list of players who are on the BCCI central contract is as follows:
Grade A+:
Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja, and Jasprit Bumrah.
Grade A:
Mohd. Shami, KL Rahul, Mohd. Siraj, Shubman Gill, R Ashwin, and Hardik Pandya.
Grade B:
Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Surya Kumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant, and Yashasvi Jaiswal.
Grade C:
Rinku Singh, Washington Sundar, Mukesh Kumar, Sanju Samson, Arshdeep Singh, KS Bharat, Tilak Verma, Ruturaj Gaekwad, Shardul Thakur, Shivam Dube, Ravi Bishnoi, Jitesh Sharma, Prasidh Krishna, Avesh Khan, and Rajat Patidar.
Fast bowling contracts: Akash Deep, Yash Dayal, Vidwath Kaverappa, Vijaykumar Vyshak, and Umran Malik
Iyer and Ishan not in the BCCI Central Contract: Why?
BCCI had asked the players not to ditch domestic cricket when they were not representing the national team. But both Shreyas Iyer and Ishan Kishan initially decided to opt out of domestic cricket, and this didn’t go well with BCCI.
Explaining the situation, BCCI stated in a media release:
“Please note that Shreyas Iyer and Ishan Kishan were not considered for the annual contracts in this round of recommendations. The BCCI has recommended that all athletes give precedence to participating in domestic cricket during periods when they are not representing the national team.”
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