The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced the Annual Player Contracts for Indian senior men's players for the 2023-24 season (October 1st, 2023 to September 30th, 2024) on Wednesday.
The new list saw the omission of regular India team stars Ishan Kishan and Shreyas Iyer who have been dropped by the board from their annual player's contract list.
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Several rising stars of Indian cricket, Rinku Singh, Tilak Varma and Ruturaj Gaikwad has been included in the Grade C category, although batters like Sarfaraz Khan and Dhruv Jurel, who recently made their Test debuts against England were ignored.
What is the minimum eligibility to earn a BCCI contract?
A player must be selected in a minimum of three Tests or eight ODIs or 10 T20Is to be eligible for the annual contracts.
Matches played by India players in the 2023-24 season
| Sr No. | Name | Test | ODI | T20I | Contract |
| 1 | Yashasvi Jaiswal | 6 | 0 | 12 | Category B |
| 2 | Ruturaj Gaikwad | 0 | 2 | 8 | Category C |
| 3 | Tilak Verma | 0 | 3 | 9 | Category C |
| 4 | Jitesh Sharma | 0 | 0 | 9 | Category C |
| 5 | Shivam Dubey | 0 | 0 | 6 | Category C |
| 6 | Rinku Singh | 0 | 2 | 13 | Category C |
| 7 | Sai Kishore | 0 | 0 | 3 | N/A |
| 8 | Washington Sundar | 0 | 1 | 6 | Category C |
| 9 | Ravi Bishnoi | 0 | 0 | 11 | Category C |
| 10 | Avesh Khan | 0 | 5 | 3 | Category C |
| 11 | Arshdeep Singh | 0 | 3 | 11 | Category C |
| 12 | Shahbaz Ahmed | 0 | 0 | 2 | N/A |
| 13 | Rohit Sharma | 6 | 11 | 3 | Category A+ |
| 14 | Ishan Kishan | 0 | 2 | 3 | N/A |
| 15 | Virat Kohli | 2 | 11 | 2 | Category A+ |
| 16 | Shreyash Iyer | 4 | 12 | 2 | N/A |
| 17 | Hardik Pandya | 0 | 4 | 0 | Category A |
| 18 | Ravindra Jadeja | 4 | 11 | 2 | Category A+ |
| 19 | Ravichandran Ashwin | 5 | 1 | 0 | Category A |
| 20 | Kuldeep Yadav | 3 | 13 | 3 | Category B |
| 21 | Jasprit Bumrah | 5 | 11 | 0 | Category A+ |
| 22 | Mohammed Siraj | 5 | 11 | 2 | Category A |
| 23 | KL Rahul | 3 | 14 | 0 | Category A |
| 24 | Shardul Thakur | 1 | 3 | 0 | N/A |
| 25 | Shubman Gill | 6 | 9 | 3 | Category A |
| 26 | Suryakumar Yadav | 0 | 7 | 7 | Category B |
| 27 | Mohammed Shami | 0 | 7 | 0 | Category A |
| 29 | Mukesh Kumar | 2 | 3 | 9 | Category C |
| 30 | Prasidh Krishna | 2 | 0 | 3 | Category C |
| 31 | Axar Patel | 2 | 3 | 7 | Category B |
| 32 | Sai Sudarshan | 0 | 3 | 0 | N/A |
| 33 | Sanju Samson | 0 | 3 | 1 | N/A |
| 34 | Rajat Patidar | 3 | 1 | 0 | N/A |
| 35 | KS Bharat | 2 | 0 | 0 | N/A |
| 36 | Sarfaraz Khan | 2 | 0 | 0 | N/A |
| 37 | Dhruv Jurel | 2 | 0 | 0 | N/A |
| 38 | Akash Deep Sangwan | 1 | 0 | 0 | Fast Bowling contract |
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