BCCI Releases Central Contract Listing: Virat Kohli & Rohit Sharma Demoted

The Board of Management for Cricket in India has launched its central contract record for the 2025–26 season, triggering widespread dialogue after a major reshuffle on the high. Solely three gamers from the boys’s staff have been positioned within the highest contract bracket, whereas senior stars Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli have been moved down a grade. The announcement additionally marks a structural change in BCCI’s grading system, reflecting a revised method to participant contracts and efficiency evaluation.

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Solely Three Gamers In High Grade

Grade A-Shubman Gill, Jasprit Bumrah, Ravindra Jadeja

Grade B-Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Washington Sundar, Mohammed Siraj, Hardik PandyaRishabh Pant, Kuldeep YadavSuryakumar Yadav, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shreyas Iyer

Grade C –Axar Patel, Tilak VarmaRinku Singh, Shivam Dube, Sanju Samson, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Akash Deep, Dhruv Jurel, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Abhishek SharmaSai Sudharsan, Ravi Bishnoi, Ruturaj Gaikwad

Grade System Overhauled

The BCCI has additionally overhauled its grading construction. Earlier, the central contract system had 4 classes: A+, A, B and C. This has now been decreased to 3 grades: A, B and C. The scrapping of the A+ class has straight impacted senior gamers who had been beforehand positioned on the very high of the hierarchy.

Within the 2024-25 season, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, jasprit bumrah and Ravindra Jadeja had been all a part of the best grade. Whereas Bumrah and Jadeja have managed to retain top-grade contracts, Sharma and Kohli have seen a transparent demotion.

Notably, Jadeja stays the one Grade A participant who’s lively in simply two codecs, having retired from T20 internationals. The revised contract record displays the BCCI’s sharper give attention to format-wise involvement, current performances and long-term planning for Staff India.