BCCI publicizes annual contracts for India ladies’s crew: Shafali promoted to Grade B, Veda amongst gamers dropped

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Wednesday introduced the annual central retainership contracts for India ladies for 2020-21. The contracts will cowl the interval from October 2020 to September 2021.A complete of twenty-two gamers had been handed annual contracts by the BCCI final 12 months. However, the checklist has been downsized to 19 gamers for 2020-21.The annual contracts for India ladies have been labeled into three classes with the gamers within the high bracket incomes Rs 50 lakh – Grade A – Rs 50 lakh, Grade B – Rs 30 lakh, Grade C – Rs 10 lakh. Only three gamers have been handed Grade A contracts because the likes of Smriti Mandhana, Harmanpreet Kaur and leg-spinner Poonam Yadav have retained their to grades.Teenage sensation Shafali Verma, who earned her maiden annual contract final 12 months, has been promoted to Grade B from C. Punam Raut and Rajeshwari Gayakwad have additionally been promoted to Grade B.On the opposite hand, Veda Krishnamurthy, Ekta Bisht, Anuja Patil and D Hemalatha are those who’ve misplaced out on annual contracts for 2020-21.India ladies have began arriving in Mumbai for his or her 2-week lengthy quarantine interval within the lead as much as the England tour. India will play a Test, 3 ODIs and as many T20Is in England in June-July.Notably, the BCCI had introduced annual contracts for India males’s crew gamers in April. Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Jasprit Bumrah had been within the high bracket value Rs 7 crore.BCCI annual contracts for India ladies 2020-21: Full checklistGrade A: Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandhana, Poonam YadavGrade B: Mithali Raj, Jhulan Goswami, Deepti Sharma, Punam Raut, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Shafali Verma, Radha Yadav, Shikha Pandey, Taniya Bhatia, Jemimah RodriguesGrade C: Mansi Joshi, Arundhati Reddy, Pooja Vastrakar, Harleen Deol, Priya Punia, Richa Ghosh.