BCCI announces central contracts for 2025-26: Kohli, Rohit downgraded to Grade B
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Monday announced the Annual Player Contracts for the senior men’s and women’s teams for the 2025-26 season.
Thirty senior men cricketers were awarded central contracts, while the BCCI did away with the A-plus category. Moreover, former India skippers Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma were downgraded to group B in the list.
Test and ODI skipper Shubman Gill, Jasprit Bumrah and Ravindra Jadeja are the only players in the A grade of the central contracts list.
Senior Men’s
Grade A: Shubman Gill, Jasprit Bumrah, Ravindra Jadeja.
Grade B: Washington Sundar, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Mohammed Siraj, Hardik Pandya, Rishabh Pant, Kuldeep Yadav, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Suryakumar Yadav, Shreyas Iyer.
Grade C: Axar Patel, Tilak Varma, Rinku Singh, Shivam Dube, Sanju Samson, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Akash Deep, Dhruv Jurel, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Abhishek Sharma, Sai Sudharsan, Ravi Bishnoi, Ruturaj Gaikwad.
Published on Feb 09, 2026
