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