The Board of Control for Cricket in India on Thursday released the annual contract list for Team India Senior Women. The list featured 17 players and they were divided into three grades- Grade A, B, and C.
"The Board of Control for Cricket in India on Wednesday announced the Annual Player Contracts for Team India (Senior Women) for the 2022-23 season," the Indian Board wrote in a statement.
Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandhana, and Deepti Sharma are categorised in Grade A. Renuka Thakur, and Jemimah Rodrigues are added to the Grade B group with three other players. On the other hand, players including Sneh Rana, and Yastika Bhatia along with seven other teammates are added to Grade C.
Earlier, BCCI had announced that the women's team will get their match fees at par with the men's team. However, they haven't mentioned about salaries of the women cricketers in the annual contract in the recent release. As per the last announced annual contract by the BCCI for the 2020-21 season, the women players were awarded Rs 50 lakh (Grade A), Rs 30 lakh (Grade B), and Rs 10 lakh (Grade C). Notably, the men's annual contracts are divided as Grade A+ - Rs 7 crore, Grade A - Rs 5 crore, Grade B - Rs 3 crore, and Grade C - Rs 1 crore.
List of players in Grade division:
- Grade A: Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandhana, Deepti Sharma
- Grade B: Renuka Thakur, Jemimah Rodrigues, Shafali Verma, Richa Ghosh, Rajeshwari Gayakwad
- Grade C: Meghna Singh, Devika Vaidya, Sabbineni Meghana, Anjali Sarvani, Pooja Vastrakar, Sneh Rana, Radha Yadav, Harleen Deol, Yastika Bhatia
Earlier in March, BCCI had announced the annual contracts for the men's squad. While India's star all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja received a promotion in the list as he made it to the top A+ list with three other Indian stars. Notably, Shikhar Dhawan and KL Rahul were handed a demotion in the contracts. It is worth noting that players in Grade A+ will receive Rs 7 crore as their salary.
List of players in Grade division (Men):
- Grade A+: Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah, Ravindra Jadeja
- Grade A: Hardik Pandya, Ravichandran Ashwin, Mohammad Shami, Rishabh Pant, Axar Patel
- Grade B: Cheteshwar Pujara, KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Mohammed Siraj, Suryakumar Yadav, Shubman Gill
- Grade C: Umesh Yadav, Shikhar Dhawan, Shardul Thakur, Ishan Kishan, Deepak Hooda, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Sanju Samson, Washington Sundar, Arshdeep Singh, KS Bharat
