The Indian cricket team has been transformed within the last one year. The ODI captaincy has also gone from the hands of Rohit Sharma, who has retired from T20 and Tests. Shubman Gill has become the new captain of the Indian ODI team, so Gill will be seen commanding the Indian team in the ODI against Australia. Will Rohit Sharma be cut off from BCCI’s salary by snatching the captaincy? Here you will get the answer to this question.

All the players who come to the Central Contract List of BCCI are given salary according to the grade system. Players are divided into Grade A+, Grade A, Grade B and Grade C. It does not matter whether the player is the captain or the vice -captain.

Rohit Sharma falls in grade A+ category, BCCI gives a salary of Rs 7 crore annually to the players coming in it. Even after the captaincy, Rohit will remain in the grade A+ category, so there will be no effect on the tank he received. Let us tell you that apart from Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Jaspreet Bumrah and Ravindra Jadeja are the 3 cricketers who get a salary of Rs 7 crore a year.

Shubman Gill was placed in grade A in BCCI’s 2024-25 Central Contract List. BCCI gives a tank of Rs 5 crore to the new captain of the Indian ODI team, Shubman Gill. If you look at all classes, players with grade A+ get 7 crores annually, grade A players get 5 crores annually and grade B cricketers get 3 crore rupees a year. At the same time, cricketers coming in grade C get one crore rupees annually.

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Bcci Central Contract Salary List: Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma have retired from 2 Surma T20 and Test format of Indian cricket. He will now play only in ODIs and is being speculated that Virat and Rohit can continue to play till 2027 ODI World Cup. Since Rohit and Virat have now retired from two formats, have they reduced the salary from BCCI? Know here how much salary the BCCI is giving them right now.

The BCCI released the Central Contract list for the 2025-26 session in April this year. In it, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Jaspreet Bumrah and Ravindra Jadeja were kept in grade A+. Players coming in this grade get a salary of Rs 7 crore annually. Remind that despite the T20 retirement, they were kept in grade A+, while in this grade those players are kept who are playing in all three formats.

Virat-Rohit ahead of captain Shubman Gill

Shubman Gill was recently made the new captain of the Indian Test team. He was placed in grade A of Central Contract. BCCI gives a annual Rs 5 crore to the players under this grade. Other players who come to Grade A are Mohammad Siraj, KL Rahul, Hardik Pandya, Rishabh Pant and Mohammed Shami.

Talking about grade B, BCCI pays Rs 3 crore to the players involved in a year. This grade includes Suryakumar Yadav, Kuldeep Yadav, Akshar Patel, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Akshar Patel. At the same time, many players including Rinku Singh and Shivam Dubey are included in Grade C. BCCI gives Rs 1 crore annually to the players coming in grade C.

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