Kohli, Rohit, Bumrah get top BCCI contracts, Dhoni misses out

Dhoni, who has not played an international game since India's loss to New Zealand in the semi-final of the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup 2019, does not feature in any of the four contract categories. He was a part of Grade A central contract last year.

Dinesh Karthik, Ambati Rayudu and Khaleel Ahmed have also been left out.

The 27-member list across Grade A+, A, B and C categories features new entrants Shreyas Iyer, Navdeep Saini, Deepak Chahar, Shardul Thakur and Washington Sundar, who have been handed Grade C contracts and Mayank Agarwal, whose bumper Test season last year has secured him a Grade B retainer.

KL Rahul has been elevated to Grade A from Grade B, while Test wicket-keeper Wriddhiman Saha now holds a Grade B contract from Grade C last year.

Kohli, Sharma and Bumrah have been retained in their premium A+ category and wicket-keeper Rishabh Pant has retained his Grade A contract despite under-par performances.

The period for the new central contracts has been specified from October 2019 to September 2020.

The full list:

Grade A+ (INR 7 crore): Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah

Grade A (INR 5 crore): Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, KL Rahul, Shikhar Dhawan, Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma, Kuldeep Yadav, Rishabh Pant

Grade B (INR 3 crore): Wriddhiman Saha, Umesh Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Hardik Pandya, Mayank Agarwal

Grade C (INR 1 crore): Kedar Jadhav, Navdeep Saini, Deepak Chahar, Manish Pandey, Hanuma Vihari, Shardul Thakur, Shreyas Iyer, Washington Sundar