Bhuvneshwar Kumar And Ishant Sharma Will Never Play For India Again? – On Sunday, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced the Annual Player Contracts for the Indian cricket team for the 2022-2023 season. The list featured 26 players and they were divided into four categories or grades — Grade A+ (Rs 7 crore), A (Rs 5 crore), B (Rs 3 crore), and C (Rs 1 crore).
“The Board of Control for Cricket in India on Sunday announced the Annual Player Contracts for Team India (Senior Men) for the 2022-23 season,” the Indian Board wrote in a statement.
NEWS 🚨- BCCI announces annual player retainership 2022-23 – Team India (Senior Men).
More details here – https://t.co/kjK4KxoDdK #TeamIndia
— BCCI (@BCCI) March 26, 2023
End of the road for Bhuvneshwar Kumar?
Senior bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar was the biggest name missing from the Annual Players Contracts. Kumar was last seen playing an international game for the Indian cricket team against New Zealand at Napier on November 22, 2022. Ever since then, he hasn’t played for the Indian side.
Apart from Bhuvi, there were several big names like Ajinkya Rahane and Ishant Sharma, who missed out on the annual contracts.
Notably, Rahane and Ishant were part of India’s Test team for a long time and were recently dropped from the team on the basis of their average performances
It seems curtains for the veteran trio, who have been dropped from the contract list, signaling that it is the end of the road for the veteran players in the national team.
List of players who missed out on BCCI’s Annual Contract List of 2022/23:
- Ajinkya Rahane
- Wriddhiman Saha
- Hanuma Vihari
- Mayank Agarwal
- Ishant Sharma
- Bhuvneshawar Kumar
- Deepak Chahar
List of players who got in for the first time:
- Sanju Samson
- Deepak Hooda
- Arshdeep Singh
- KS Bharat
BCCI Annual Contract List – 2022/23:
Grade A+: Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah, Ravindra Jadeja
Grade A: Hardik Pandya, Ravichandran Ashwin, Mohammad Shami, Rishabh Pant, Axar Patel
Grade B: Cheteshwar Pujara, KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Mohammed Siraj, Suryakumar Yadav, Shubman Gill
Grade C: Umesh Yadav, Shikhar Dhawan, Shardul Thakur, Ishan Kishan, Deepak Hooda, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Sanju Samson, Washington Sundar, Arshdeep Singh, KS Bharat
