This is called bumper bonanza. BCCI has announced the Annual Retainer fees for Indian’s 32 centrally contracted cricketers is doubled after a Board meeting yesterday and the increment will come into force from October 1st 2016.
As per the new rule of payment, Grade A players will get 2 Crore a year (which was 1 Crore before), Grade B players 1 Crore a year (which was 50 Lakhs before) and Grade C players 50 Lakhs a year (which was before 25 Lakhs).
Below is the list of players in each grade:
Grade A:
Virat Kohli, MS Dhoni, R Ashwin, Ajinkya Rahane, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ravindra Jadeja, Murali Vijay.
Grade B:
Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav, Wriddhiman Saha, Jasprit Bumrah, Yuvraj Singh.
Grade C:
Shikhar Dhawan, Ambati Rayudu, Amit Mishra, Manish Pandey, Axar Patel, Karun Nair, Hardik Pandya, Ashish Nehra, Kedar Jadhav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Parthiv Patel, Jayant Yadav, Mandeep Singh, Dhawal Kulkarni, Shardul Thakur, Rishabh Pant.