Among the many demands that Virat Kohli and Ravi Shastri have voiced in their tenure, is the cry for better salaries for Indian cricketers.
Today, the Committee of Administrators, along with the BCCI, has obliged.
In an official mail sent out, the CoA has announced a drastic increase in the annual contracts of members of the Indian cricket team, along with an all new category — the A . Players like Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah, are all part of the new A category, and are now slated to earn a massive Rs 7 crore a year.
The earlier highest grade for players, the A grade, used to fetch Rs 2 crore a year.
Former India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Test specialist Cheteshwar Pujara and senior spinners R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja have all been relegated from the top-paid bracket from last March and now see themselves in the second grade of players.