MEDIA ADVISORY 

Feb 28, 2024

BCCI declares annual participant retainership 2023-24 – Team India (Senior Men)

The Board of Control for Cricket in India on Wednesday introduced the Annual Player Contracts for Team India (Senior Men) for the 2023-24 season (October 1st, 2023 to September thirtieth, 2024).

Grade A+ (4 Athletes)

Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah and Ravindra Jadeja.

Grade A (6 Athletes)

R Ashwin, Mohd. Shami, Mohd. Siraj, KL Rahul, Shubman Gill and Hardik Pandya.

Grade B (5 Athletes)

Surya Kumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant, Kuldeep Yadav, Axar Patel and Yashasvi Jaiswal.

Grade C (15 Athletes)

Rinku Singh, Tilak Verma, Ruturaj Gaekwad, Shardul Thakur, Shivam Dube, Ravi Bishnoi, Jitesh Sharma, Washington Sundar, Mukesh Kumar, Sanju Samson, Arshdeep Singh, KS Bharat, Prasidh Krishna, Avesh Khan and Rajat Patidar.

Additionally, athletes who meet the factors of taking part in a minimal of three Tests or 8 ODIs or 10 T20Is inside the specified interval will robotically be included in Grade C on a pro-rata foundation. For occasion, Dhruv Jurel and Sarfaraz Khan, having performed 2 Test matches up to now, will likely be inducted into Grade C in the event that they take part within the Dharamsala Test Match, i.e., the fifth Test of the continuing sequence towards England.

Please observe that Shreyas Iyer and Ishan Kishan weren’t thought-about for the annual contracts on this spherical of suggestions.

The Selection Committee has additionally really useful Fast Bowling contracts for the next athletes – Akash Deep, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Umran Malik, Yash Dayal and Vidwath Kaverappa.

The BCCI has really useful that each one athletes give priority to collaborating in home cricket in periods when they aren’t representing the nationwide group.

JAY SHAH

Honorary Secretary

BCCI