Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli handed Grade 'B' central contracts

Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma have been handed 'Grade B' central contracts in BCCI's retainer list for the 2025-26 season, announced on Monday (February 9).

As reported by Cricbuzz already, the 'A+' category of contract has been done away with for the season, with Shubman Gill, Ravindra Jadeja and Jasprit Bumrah handed the top Grade A contract.

For the Women's team, Harmanpreet Kaur and Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues and Deepti Sharma are the four players in Grade A for India women.

BCCI Annual Retainership Contracts

India Men

Grade A: Shubman Gill, Jasprit Bumrah, Ravindra Jadeja

Grade B: Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Washington Sundar, KL Rahul, 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

India Women

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

Grade B: Renuka Singh, Shafali Verma, Richa Ghosh, Sneh Rana

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

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