The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 season will start from March 22. The first match will be played between Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and Chennai Super Kings (CSK) under the captaincy of Mahendra Singh Dhoni. But before this, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has given a big gift to two star players. These two are star player Sarfaraz Khan and wicketkeeper batsman Dhruv Jurel, whom BCCI has included in its central contract. This decision was taken in the BCCI Apex Council meeting held on Monday. BCCI has kept Dhruv Jurel and Sarfaraz in Grade-C.
Sarfaraz Khan will not be able to play IPL this time
It is noteworthy that Sarfaraz Khan will not be able to play IPL this time. No one bought them in the auction. Its original price was Rs 20 lakh. Dhruv Jurel will be seen playing for Rajasthan Royals. He will get Rs 20 lakh for one season.
He performed strongly after debuting in the test series.
Now after joining the central contract, both of them have got a profit of one crore rupees. He will get Rs 1 crore in a year as a central contract. Sarfaraz and Jurel have recently made their debut in international cricket. Both of them made their debut during the 5-match Test series against England and both the players performed strongly.
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Sarfaraz, who played domestic tournaments for Mumbai, scored 3 half-centuries in the three Test matches of the series. Whereas Jurel played match-winning innings of 90 and 39 runs in his second Test (Ranchi). For this he was chosen Player of the Match.
BCCI Central Contract Players List (October 2023 to September 2024)
Grade A+
Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah and Ravindra Jadeja.
grade A
R Ashwin, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj, KL Rahul, Shubman Gill and Hardik Pandya.
grade B
Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant, Kuldeep Yadav, Axar Patel and Yashasvi Jaiswal.
grade c
Rinku Singh, Tilak Verma, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shardul Thakur, Shivam Dubey, Ravi Bishnoi, Jitesh Sharma, Washington Sundar, Mukesh Kumar, Sanju Samson, Arshdeep Singh, KS Bharat, Prasidh Krishna, Avesh Khan, Rajat Patidar, Sarfaraz Khan and Dhruv Jurel. .
This is how players with central contracts get paid
- Grade A+ – Annual Rs. 7 crores
- Grade A – Annual Rs. 50 million
- Grade B – Annual Rs. 3 crores
- Grade C – Annual Rs. 1 crore
These players were released from their contracts
This time BCCI has shown Ishan Kishan and Shreyas Iyer the way out of their annual central contracts. In the previous contract, Shreyas was kept in B category and Ishaan was kept in C category. At that time, Shreyas got Rs 3 crore and Ishaan got Rs 1 crore annually. But now they have suffered a loss of crores of rupees. Apart from these two, Rishabh Pant and Akshar Patel have suffered A grade loss. Cheteshwar Pujara was dropped from B category. Umesh Yadav, Shikhar Dhawan, Deepak Hooda and Yuzvendra Chahal have been dropped from C category.