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Shreyas Iyer during an ODI match against Australia in 2023. Photo courtesy: X/@BCCI

BCCI annual contract: Pant gets promotion, Shreyas Iyer and Ishan Kishan return

| @indiablooms | Apr 21, 2025, at 01:53 pm

Mumbai/IBNS: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Monday announced the list of central contracts for the national men's team.

In a major change, wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant has been promoted to Grade A.

In-form batter Shreyas Iyer and southpaw Ishan Kishan have returned to the contract list.

Four senior cricketers- India captain Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah and Ravindra Jadeja- have been retained in the A+ category.

 

GRADE

NUMBER

PLAYERS

A+

1

Rohit Sharma

2

Virat Kohli

3

Jasprit Bumrah

4

Ravindra Jadeja

 

A

5

Md. Siraj

6

KL Rahul

7

Shubman Gill

8

Hardik Pandya

9

Md. Shami

10

Rishabh Pant

 

B

11

Suryakumar Yadav

12

Kuldeep Yadav

13

Axar Patel

14

Yashasvi Jaiswal

15

Shreyas Iyer

 

C

16

Rinku Singh

17

Tilak Verma

18

Ruturaj Gaikwad

19

Shivam Dube 

20

Ravi Bishnoi

21

Washington Sundar

22

Mukesh Kumar

23

Sanju Samson 

24

Arshdeep Singh 

25

Prasidh Krishna

26

Rajat Patidar

27

Dhruv Jurel 

28

Sarfaraz Khan

29

Nitish Kumar Reddy  

30

Ishan Kishan 

31

Abhishek Sharma 

32

Akash Deep 

33

Varun Chakaravarthy

34

Harshit Rana

 

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