BOARD OF CONTROL FOR CRICKET IN INDIA (BCCI) has announced the annual player contracts for the senior men’s and women’s teams for the 2025–26 season, covering the period from 1 October 2025 to 30 September 2026. A total of 30 men and 21 women have been included in the lists.
The top-tier Grade A+ category has been scrapped, making Grade A the highest bracket this season. In the men’s team, Shubman Gill joins Jasprit Bumrah and Ravindra Jadeja in the top grade, while Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, previously part of the highest category, have been moved down following their retirement from Test cricket last year. On the women’s side, Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues and Deepti Sharma feature in Grade A.
Alongside Kohli and Sharma, the men’s Grade B list includes Washington Sundar, KL Rahul, Mohammed Siraj, Hardik Pandya, Rishabh Pant, Kuldeep Yadav, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Suryakumar Yadav and Shreyas Iyer. In the women’s Grade B bracket, the names include Renuka Thakur, Shafali Verma, Richa Ghosh and Sneh Rana.
The men’s Grade C category features Axar Patel, Tilak Varma, Rinku Singh, Shivam Dube, Sanju Samson, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Akash Deep, Dhruv Jurel, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Abhishek Sharma, Sai Sudharsan, Ravi Bishnoi and Ruturaj Gaikwad.
The women’s Grade C list comprises Radha Yadav, Amanjot Kaur, Pratika Rawal, Kranti Gaud, Uma Chetry, Arundhati Reddy, Sree Charani, Yastika Bhatia, Harleen Deol, Kashvee Gautam, G Kamalini, Vaishnavi Sharma and Tejal Hasabnis.
