Virender Sehwag, Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh Omitted From BCCI Contract Thursday Nov 14,2013

Virender Sehwag, Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh have been excluded from the BCCI contract players' list which was released on Thursday Nov 14,2013

 

The contracted players for Sept. 2013 — October 14

Grade A (Rs. 1 crore)

• Sachin Tendulkar
• M.S. Dhoni
• Virat Kohli
•  R. Ashwin
•  Suresh Raina.

Grade B (Rs. 50 lakh)

• Gautam Gambhir
•  Yuvraj Singh
•  Pragyan Ojha
•  Ishant Sharma
•  Murali Vijay
•  Shikhar Dhawan
•  Umesh Yadav
•  Cheteshwar Pujara
•  Ravindra Jadeja
•  Bhuvneshwar Kumar
•  Rohit Sharma

Grade C (Rs. 25 lakh)

• Dinesh Karthik
• Amit Mishra
• Wriddhiman Saha
• Ajinkya Rahane
• Ambati Rayudu
• Vinay Kumar
• Mohammad Shami
• Jaydev Unadkat
• Mohit Sharma.

The BCCI has whittled down the annual players’ contract from last year’s high of 37 to 25 this year

Normally players who figured in the previous 12 months were considered for the next. 

A notable omission from the list is Virender Sehwag who played the first Test against Australia at Hyderabad last March. He also played One-Day Internationals against Pakistan at Chennai and Kolkata

Gautam Gambhir and Yuvraj Singh have been relegated from Grade A to Grade B

Sachin Tendulkar will be paid on a pro-rata basis for two months