{"id":492214,"date":"2026-02-20T10:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/492214\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T10:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:44:07","slug":"bcb-central-contracts-taskin-mushfiqur-demoted-no-player-in-a-category","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/492214\/","title":{"rendered":"BCB central contracts: Taskin, Mushfiqur demoted; no player in A+ category"},"content":{"rendered":"

The BCB has demoted Taskin Ahmed<\/a> and Mushfiqur Rahim<\/a> to lower grades in their 2026 central contracts for the national men’s cricketers. Taskin was the only player in the A-plus category in 2025<\/a>, with a monthly salary of BDT 1 million (US $8169 approx.), but now he joins the Test, ODI and T20I captains Najmul Hossain Shanto<\/a>, Mehidy Hasan Miraz<\/a> and Litton Das<\/a>, respectively, in category A.<\/p>\n

This is the second tier in the BCB’s gradation policy, in which each player earns BDT 800,000 (US $6535 approx.) per year. No player has been placed in the A+ category this time.<\/p>\n

It is unclear why Taskin has been demoted despite his strong performances with the ball. The team management has typically reduced his workload to prolong his effectiveness across all three formats. Meanwhile, Mushfiqur, who retired from ODIs<\/a> in 2025, was in Grade A last year, but now finds himself in Grade B, where he will earn BDT 600,000 (US $4901 approx.) per month. Ten other players are in this category, including Test specialists Mominul Haque<\/a>, Taijul Islam<\/a> and Shadman Islam<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Shadman is also among four players promoted from Grade C to B, along with Tanzid Hasan<\/a>, Rishad Hossain<\/a> and Mahedi Hasan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The BCB has also expanded Grade D from last year, when only two cricketers were in that category. This time, there are seven players, including Saif Hassan<\/a> and Nurul Hasan<\/a>, who returned to the T20I setup last year.<\/p>\n

Grades C and D pay BDT 400,000 (approximately US$3,267) and BDT 200,000 (approximately US$1,633) per month, respectively.<\/p>\n

Bangladesh<\/a> have made a slow start to the year, though, after the government decided not to send the team<\/a> for the ongoing T20 World Cup. They resume playing international cricket with a three-match ODI series against Pakistan at home on March 12, 14 and 16.<\/p>\n

2026 Bangladesh central contracts<\/p>\n

Grade A: Najmul Hossain Shanto, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Litton Das and Taskin Ahmed
Grade B: Mushfiqur Rahim, Mominul Haque, Taijul Islam, Mustafizur Rahman, Towhid Hridoy, Shadman Islam, Tanzid Hasan, Rishad Hossain, Mahedi Hasan, Hasan Mahmud and Nahid Rana
Grade C: Soumya Sarkar, Jaker Ali, Shoriful Islam, Tanzim Hasan, Nasum Ahmed and Khaled Ahmed
Grade D: Saif Hassan, Parvez Hossain Emon, Tanvir Islam, Nayeem Hasan, Hasan Murad, Shamim Hossain and Nurul Hasan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The BCB has demoted Taskin Ahmed and Mushfiqur Rahim to lower grades in their 2026 central contracts for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-492214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492214","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=492214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}