BCCI central contracts: Shreyas Iyer, Ishan Kishan return; promotion for Rishabh Pant | Cricket Information

BENGALURU, INDIA – APRIL 18: Shreyas Iyer of Punjab Kings seems to be on throughout the 2025 IPL match between Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Punjab Kings at M Chinnaswamy Stadium on April 18, 2025, in Bengaluru, India. (Photograph by Pankaj Nangia/Getty Photographs)

Shreyas Iyer and Ishan Kishan have been awarded central contracts by the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI). The Indian cricket board has introduced the annual participant contracts for Workforce India (Senior Males) for the 2024-25 season (October 1st, 2024, to September thirtieth, 2025) on Monday.
Iyer has been awarded a Grade B contract, whereas Ishan has been given a Grade C contract. Wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant has been promoted to Grade A.
Iyer was dropped final season for allegedly ignoring home cricket for IPL. Wicketkeeper-batter Ishan Kishan. dropped for a similar purpose, additionally made a comeback in class C, which is price Rs one crore yearly.
Rishabh Pant, who was demoted to group B throughout the 2023-24 season as he did not because of his restoration from a life-threatening accident, is again in A class instead of the retired Ravichandran Ashwin. Class A comes with a retainership of Rs 5 crore yearly.
Who’s that IPL participant?
Class C options the utmost variety of gamers, 19 in all, with 4 new entrants in Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy, Abhishek Sharma and Nitish Kumar Reddy.
BCCI central contracts checklist:
Grade A+
Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah. Ravindra Jadeja
Grade A
Mohammed Siraj, KL Rahul, Shubman Gill, Hardik Pandya, Mohammed Shami, Rishabh Pant
Grade B
Suryakumar Yadav, Kuldeep Yadav, Axar Patel, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shreyas Iyer
Grade C
Rinku Singh, Tilak Verma, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shivam Dube, Ravi Bishnoi, Washington Sundar, Mukesh Kumar, Sanju Samson, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Rajat Patidar, Dhruv Jurel, Sarfaraz Khan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Ishan Kishan, Abhishek Sharma, Akash Deep, Varun Chakaravarthy, Harshit Rana