Rohit and Virat in grade B
Two key players of the Indian team, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli were earlier in A+ grade. That grade itself has been abolished. Virat and Rohit have now gone to B. Both these players have retired from T20 International cricket along with Test cricket. Both play only in ODIs. Jasprit Bumrah and Ravindra Jadeja were in A+ earlier. Now both are in Grade A. Shubman Gill was in A earlier and is still in A. However, he has been promoted as he is now in the top grade. Gill is the captain of India in ODI as well as Test.
10 players in Grade B
Apart from Rohit and Virat, names of Washington Sundar, KL Rahul, Hardik Pandya, Mohammed Siraj, Rishabh Pant, Kuldeep Yadav, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Suryakumar Yadav and Shreyas Iyer are included in Grade B. In this, only Washington Sundar plays regularly in all three formats. T20’s number one batsman Abhishek Sharma and number one bowler Varun Chakraborty have been placed in Grade C. There are 16 names included in this grade.
Male players who got central contracts
| grade | serial number | player |
| grade A | 1 | Shubhman Gill |
| 2 | Jasprit Bumrah | |
| 3 | Ravindra Jadeja | |
| grade B | 4 | washington beautiful |
| 5 | Rohit Sharma | |
| 6 | Virat Kohli | |
| 7 | KL Rahul | |
| 8 | Mohammad Siraj | |
| 9 | hardik pandya | |
| 10 | Rishabh Pant | |
| 11 | Kuldeep Yadav | |
| 12 | Yashasvi Jaiswal | |
| 13 | Suryakumar Yadav | |
| 14 | Shreyas Iyer | |
| Grade-C | 15 | Akshar Patel |
| 16 | Tilak Verma | |
| 17 | Rinku Singh | |
| 18 | Shivam Dubey | |
| 19 | sanju samson | |
| 20 | Arshdeep Singh | |
| 21 | famous krishna | |
| 22 | sky lamp | |
| 23 | Dhruv Jurel | |
| 24 | Harshit Rana | |
| 25 | Varun Chakraborty | |
| 26 | Nitish Kumar Reddy | |
| 27 | Abhishek Sharma | |
| 28 | Sai Sudarshan | |
| 29 | Ravi Bishnoi | |
| 30 | Ruturaj Gaikwad |
Indian women’s cricket team is currently the world champion in ODI. India won the tournament title under the captaincy of Harmanpreet Kaur. Smriti was India’s most successful batsman in the World Cup while Jemimah scored a century in the semi-finals. Deepti was the player of the tournament. There are four players in Grade-B. It features pacer Renuka Thakur, opener Shefali Verma along with Richa Ghosh and Sneh Rana.
Central contract of women players
Grade A– Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues and Deepti Sharma.
Grade B– Renuka Thakur, Shefali Verma, Richa Ghosh and Sneh Rana.
Grade C– Radha Yadav, Amanjot Kaur, Pratika Rawal, Kranti Gaur, Uma Chettri, Arundhati Reddy, Sri Charani, Yastika Bhatia, Harleen Deol, Kashvi Gautam, G Kamalini, Vaishnavi Sharma and Tejal Hasbanis.
