Salary of India cricket team players

The Indian Cricket Players Salary are divided into four classes A+, A, B, and C respectively. The grading system is for the players to promote or demote on the basis of their performance in the last season. The grading list is centrally controlled and observed under the BCCI. The grade A+ players like Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma earns Rs 7 crore per year as retainer ship fees plus match fees. Here’s the complete list for the Indian Cricket Players Salary 2020-21.

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The salary of each team grade is determined as Grade A+ (Rs 7 Crore), Grade A (Rs 5 crore), Grade B (Rs 3 crore) and Grade C (Rs 1 Crore). If a player who is not in the list of contracted players plays a minimum of three matches Test/ODI/T20I, he will be promoted to the Superior Grade respectively.

Indian Cricket Players Salary List 2020-21

Grade A-plus players (Rs 7 crore): Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah

Grade A players (Rs 5 crore): R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, KL Rahul, Shikhar Dhawan, Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma, Kuldeep Yadav, Rishabh Pant

Grade B players (Rs 3 crore): Wriddhiman Saha, Umesh Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Hardik Pandya, Mayank Agarwal

Grade C players (Rs 1 crore):Kedar Jadhav, Navdeep Saini, Deepak Chahar, Manish Pandey, Hanuma Vihari, Shardul Thakur, Shreyas Iyer, Washington Sundar

How Salary of Indian Cricketers Calculated?

Match Fee: Every individual player who plays an international match for the country is provided with the match fee. Match fee is the same for all the squad members.

Team Performance Bonuses: Performance Rewards are also given by the BCCI to the individual players if they score a Fifty or a Century against the top 3 ranking teams in the world. The Hike is 30-60% in their overall salary.

Retainer Fee: Retain Fee is guaranteed yearly retainer which will be paid to all cricketers in the central contract according to their grade A+, A, B, C and D.

Individual Performance Bonuses: Performance related bonuses are also rewarded for example Rs 500,000 for scoring a hundred in a test or ODI, Rs Rs 700,000 for a double hundred in the test. Rs 500,000 for 5 wicket haul in Test, ODI or T20 and Rs 700,000 for taking a 10 wicket haul in test matches.