No Ishan Kishan, Shreyas Iyer; BCCI Announces Annual Player Retainership For 2023-24
New Delhi: The Board of Control for Cricket in India has announced the annual player contract list for the year 2023-24 and wicketkeeper batter Ishan Kishan along with Shreyas Iyer are not in the list. Iyer had a Grade B BCCI contract whereas Kishan had a Grade C contract in last year retainer ship list.
India skipper Rohit Sharma along with star batter Virat Kohli speedster Jasprit Bumrah and Ravindra Jadeja got the A+ Grade.
Whereas Ravichandran Ashwin, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj, KL Rahul, Shubman Gill and Hardik Pandya got grade A.
Grade B includes Surya Kumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant, Kuldeep Yadav, Axar Patel and Yashasvi Jaiswal.
Here is the players who are in grade C:
Rinku Singh, Tilak Verma, Ruturaj Gaekwad, Shardul Thakur, Shivam Dube, Ravi Bishnoi, Jitesh Sharma, Washington Sundar, Mukesh Kumar, Sanju Samson, Arshdeep Singh, KS Bharat, Prasidh Krishna, Avesh Khan and Rajat Patidar.
“The Selection Committee has also recommended Fast Bowling contracts for the following athletes – Akash Deep, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Umran Malik, Yash Dayal and Vidwath Kaverappa” said BCCI in a Tweet.