 "BCCI releases central contract list, former skipper M S Dhoni dropped")
MS Dhoni was on Thursday dropped from the Board of Control for Cricket in India's (BCCI) list of centrally contracted players, raising fresh doubts on the future of the former India captain who has not played since the ICC World Cup semifinal loss to New Zealand last year.
The BCCI announced the central contracts for the period of October 2019 to September 2020. Dhoni was in the A category, which fetches a player Rs 5 crore, until last year. However four players -- Navdeep Saini, Mayank Agarwal, Shreyas Iyer, Washington Sundar and Deepak Chahar -- are the new entries in the BCCI's annual player contracts.
Skipper Virat Kohli, his deputy Rohit Sharma and top pacer Jasprit Bumrah were retained in the highest A+ bracket of Rs 7 crore.
BCCI payment structures:
| Period | Grade A + | Grade A | Grade B | Grade C |
| Oct 2019 to Sept 2020 | Rs 7 Cr | Rs 5 Cr | Rs 3 Cr | Rs 1 Cr |
BCCI annual retainership fee for the period of October 2019 to September 2020:
| Grade | Player Name |
| A+ | Virat Kohli |
| Rohit Sharma | |
| Jasprit Bumrah | |
| A | Ravichandran Ashwin |
| Ravindra Jadeja | |
| Bhuvneshwar Kumar | |
| Cheteshwar Pujara | |
| Ajinkya Rahane | |
| K L Rahul | |
| Shikhar Dhawan | |
| Mohammed Shami | |
| Kuldeep Yadav | |
| Rishabh Pant | |
| B | Wriddhiman Saha |
| Umesh yadav | |
| Yuzvendra Chahal | |
| Hardik Pandya | |
| Mayank Agarwal | |
| C | Kedar Jadhav |
| Navdeep Saini | |
| Deepak Chahar | |
| Manish Pandey | |
| Hanuma Vihari | |
| Shradul Thakur | |
| Shreyas Iyer | |
| Washington Sundar |
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