The BCCI has announced the central contracts for the 2025–26 season for both the men’s and women’s teams. The contracts will be in effect from October 1, 2025, to September 30, 2026. Thirty senior men cricketers were awarded central contracts.
Category A contract
The Indian cricket board made a massive change in their contract list as they removed A+ category. Notably, Jasprit Bumrah, Shubman Gill and Ravindra Jadeja are the only players who managed to get an A category contract.
Rohit and Virat demoted
Senior players Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma have been moved to Grade B. The decision comes after both players retired from T20 and Test cricket, leaving them active in only one format. As a result, the BCCI has placed them in a lower contract grade.
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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.
Notably, Ishan Kishan, who recently made his international comeback and featured in the T20 World Cup 2026, has not got a BCCI contract.