BCCI annual contract: Pant gets promotion, Shreyas Iyer and Ishan Kishan return

Mumbai/IBNS: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Monday announced the list of central contracts for the national men's team.
In a major change, wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant has been promoted to Grade A.
In-form batter Shreyas Iyer and southpaw Ishan Kishan have returned to the contract list.
Four senior cricketers- India captain Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah and Ravindra Jadeja- have been retained in the A+ category.
GRADE |
NUMBER |
PLAYERS |
A+ |
1 |
Rohit Sharma |
2 |
Virat Kohli |
|
3 |
Jasprit Bumrah |
|
4 |
Ravindra Jadeja |
|
|
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A |
5 |
Md. Siraj |
6 |
KL Rahul |
|
7 |
Shubman Gill |
|
8 |
Hardik Pandya |
|
9 |
Md. Shami |
|
10 |
Rishabh Pant |
|
|
||
B |
11 |
Suryakumar Yadav |
12 |
Kuldeep Yadav |
|
13 |
Axar Patel |
|
14 |
Yashasvi Jaiswal |
|
15 |
Shreyas Iyer |
|
|
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C |
16 |
Rinku Singh |
17 |
Tilak Verma |
|
18 |
Ruturaj Gaikwad |
|
19 |
Shivam Dube |
|
20 |
Ravi Bishnoi |
|
21 |
Washington Sundar |
|
22 |
Mukesh Kumar |
|
23 |
Sanju Samson |
|
24 |
Arshdeep Singh |
|
25 |
Prasidh Krishna |
|
26 |
Rajat Patidar |
|
27 |
Dhruv Jurel |
|
28 |
Sarfaraz Khan |
|
29 |
Nitish Kumar Reddy |
|
30 |
Ishan Kishan |
|
31 |
Abhishek Sharma |
|
32 |
Akash Deep |
|
33 |
Varun Chakaravarthy |
|
34 |
Harshit Rana |