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, even as the BCCI did away with the A-plus category.

Moreover, former India skippers Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, who have retired from Test and T20I cricket, 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 for men.

BCCI Central Contracts for 2025-26

Senior Men

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.

Senior Women

Grade A: Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma.

Grade B: Renuka Thakur, Shafali Verma, Richa Ghosh, Sneh Rana.

Grade C: Radha Yadav, Amanjot Kaur, Pratika Rawal, Kranti Gaud, Uma Chetri, Arundhati Reddy, Sree Charani, Yastika Bhatia, Harleen Deol, Kashvee Gautam, G. Kamalini, Vaishnavi Sharma, Tejal Hasabnis.

Published on Feb 09, 2026