{"id":468807,"date":"2026-02-09T16:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/468807\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T16:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:31:08","slug":"gill-bumrah-and-jadeja-in-top-tier-of-bcci-mens-contracts-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/468807\/","title":{"rendered":"Gill, Bumrah and Jadeja in top tier of BCCI men’s contracts list"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former India<\/a> captains Virat Kohli<\/a> and Rohit Sharma<\/a>, who now play only one of the three international formats, have dropped down to the second tier (Category B) of the BCCI’s list of contracted men’s players for 2025-26. These contracts cover the period from October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2026.<\/p>\n

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The top tier (Category A) only includes three players: Test and ODI captain Shubman Gill<\/a>, fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah<\/a>, and allrounder Ravindra Jadeja<\/a>, who is now India’s most experienced active Test player.<\/p>\n

The new contracts list does not include the A+ grade that was in place in the 2024-25 list<\/a>. Kohli, Rohit, Bumrah and Jadeja had been the four players in that tier.<\/p>\n

This effectively means that Gill, who took over both the Test and ODI captaincy from Rohit last year, is the biggest upwards mover in the list.<\/p>\n

T20I captain Suryakumar Yadav is in Category B alongside seniors including Test keeper and vice-captain Rishabh Pant, batters KL Rahul, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shreyas Iyer, allrounders Hardik Pandya and Washington Sundar<\/a>, wristspinner Kuldeep Yadav and fast bowler Mohammed Siraj.<\/p>\n

Going by the players in the two lists, the BCCI seems to have combined Grades A and B from the 2024-25 list into a single middle tier for 2025-26, Category B. Judged this way, Washington has moved up a tier.<\/p>\n

Fellow spin-bowling allrounder Axar Patel<\/a> has been downgraded from Grade B to Category C, even though he has been a key player in both white-ball formats, and is vice-captain of the India squad that is currently playing the T20 World Cup.<\/p>\n

There are no newly contracted players, with the overall men’s list trimmed from 34 players to 30. Senior fast bowler Mohammed Shami, who was in Grade A in the 2024-25 list, and Sarfaraz Khan, Rajat Patidar and Mukesh Kumar (all Grade C) have dropped out of the current list.<\/p>\n

The BCCI has not revealed the payscales for the three contract categories.<\/p>\n

List of BCCI-contracted players for 2025-26<\/p>\n

Category A: Shubman Gill, Jasprit Bumrah, Ravindra Jadeja.
Category B: Washington Sundar, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Mohammed Siraj, Hardik Pandya, Rishabh Pant, Kuldeep Yadav, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Suryakumar Yadav, Shreyas Iyer.
Category C: Axar Patel, Tilak Varma, Rinku Singh, Shivam Dube, Sanju Samson, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Akash Deep, Dhruv Jurel, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Abhishek Sharma, B Sai Sudharsan, Ravi Bishnoi, Ruturaj Gaikwad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former India captains Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, who now play only one of the three international formats,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-468807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}