MS Dhoni Not Included in Annual Player Contract for Team India; Other Players Listed

Today the Board of Control of Cricket for India (BCCI) announced the Annual player contracts listed for the period from October 2019 - September 2020. Saini, Mayank, Shreyas, Washington and Deepak Chahar get annual player contracts. The other players who have been included in the list are given below.

BCCI Central Contracts for 2019-20

Grade A+ (INR 7 cr): Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah

Grade A (INR 5 cr): Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, KL Rahul, Shikhar Dhawan, Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma, Kuldeep Yadav, Rishabh Pant

Grade B (INR 3 cr): Wriddhiman Saha, Umesh Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Hardik Pandya, Mayank Agarwal

Grade C (INR 1 cr): Kedar Jadhav, Navdeep Saini, Deepak Chahar, Manish Pandey, Hanuma Vihari, Shardul Thakur, Shreyas Iyer, Washington Sundar

Former Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni who is on a sabbatical since World Cup 2019 has not been included in the list.