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BCCI announces new pay structure for players



The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Wednesday announced a new contract system and compensation structure for Indian cricket that will see the cricketers earn a lot more than what they used to in previous years. The biggest winners from the newly-announced list were India skipper Virat Kohli and opener Shikhar Dhawan. Kohli received a pay hike of 250 per cent while Dhawan got a mindboggling 1300 per cent hike. Dhawan was upgraded from last year's Grade C to a newly-introduced Grade A+. 


Mahendra Singh Dhoni and senior off-spinner R Ashwin found themselves little bit disappointed from the top-paid bracket with the BCCI today. Mohammed Shami, against whom there are allegations of domestic violence and infidelity from his wife, is not among the contracted players.
The Grade B category contracts are worth Rs 3 crore, while those in Grade C are of Rs 1 crore.
The annual contracts are for the period from October 2017 to September 2018.
The B category will consists of KL Rahul, Umesh Yadav, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Hardik Pandya, Ishant Sharma and Dinesh Karthik.
Among the women, World Cup stars Mithali Raj, Jhulan Goswami, Harmanpreet Kaur and Smriti Mandhana have been kept in the top bracket, under which the annual contract is worth Rs 50 lakh.

The A+ category has been introduced for the first time by the board.
Players in the top bracket, which has only five players, including skipper Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Jasprit Bumrah, will receive Rs 7 crore annually.
The players in A, B and C categories will receive Rs 5 crore, Rs 3 crore and Rs 1 crore annually respectively.
Former India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and off-spinner R Ashwin have not been picked in the top-paid bracket.
The A category features MS Dhoni, Ravichandran Ashwin Ravindra Jadeja, Murali Vijay, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane and Wridhhiman Saha.
The B category includes KL Rahul, Umesh Yadav, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Hardik Pandya, Ishant Sharma and Dinesh Karthik
The players in the C Category are Kedar Jadhav, Manish Pandey, Axar Patel, Karun Nair, Suresh Raina, Parthiv Patel and Jayant Yadav.
Notably, pacer Mohammed Shami's name has been withheld by the BCCI because of an FIR lodged against him in the alleged cheating affair exposed by his wife.
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