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Pant gets an upgrade; Iyer, Kishan back as BCCI unveils annual contracts
The Statesman Bhubaneswar
|April 22, 2025
Shreyas Iyer and Ishan Kishan make comebacks while seven players receive maiden central contracts
Shreyas Iyer and Ishan Kishan were re-included in the annual contract list for the national men's cricket team that the BCCI unveiled on Monday. Rishabh Pant has been upgraded to Group A even as seven players have been handed the central contract for the first time. The contracts will be valid from 1 October, 2024 to 30 September, 2025.
Retaining its earlier format, with players slotted in four categories — A+, A, B and C, the BCCI announced a 34-player list, which didn't feature the fast bowling contracts handed last year. Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja and Jasprit Bumrah continue to be retained in the A+ category. Ravichandran Ashwin was the obvious exclusion from the list after the star off-spinner announced his international retirement in the middle of the Border-Gavaskar series Down Under last year.
This story is from the April 22, 2025 edition of The Statesman Bhubaneswar.
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