{"id":318950,"date":"2020-01-16T10:49:31","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T10:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=318950"},"modified":"2020-01-16T11:26:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T11:26:57","slug":"ms-dhoni-dropped-from-bcci-annual-player-contracts-for-2019-20-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/ms-dhoni-dropped-from-bcci-annual-player-contracts-for-2019-20-season\/","title":{"rendered":"MS Dhoni dropped from BCCI Annual Player Contracts for 2019-20 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-314123 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/dhoni.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"556\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/dhoni.jpg 556w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/dhoni-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/dhoni-356x220.jpg 356w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\" \/>The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Thursday announced the central contracts for the 2019-20 season and in a big move former India captain\u00a0Mahendra Singh Dhoni\u00a0has been left out from all four categories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He was in the A category, which fetches a player Rs 5 crore, until last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Dropping from the list has raised fresh doubts on the future of Dhoni who has not played for India since the 2019 World Cup semi-final loss to New Zealand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Jasprit Bumrah are in A+ category where they will get a payout of 7 crore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Besides Dhoni, Dinesh Karthik, Khaleel Ahmed and Ambati Rayudu are the other players who have been dropped from the central contract.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe BCCI announces the Annual Player Contracts for Team India (Senior Men) for the period from October 2019 to September 2020. Saini, Mayank, Shreyas, Washington and Deepak Chahar get annual player contracts,\u201d BCCI tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>The Board of Control for Cricket in India Central Contracts for 2019-20:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Grade A: Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, KL Rahul, Shikhar Dhawan, Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma, Kuldeep Yadav and Rishabh Pant<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Grade B: Wriddhiman Saha, Umesh Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Hardik Pandya, Mayank Agarwal<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Grade C: \u00a0Kedar Jadhav, Navdeep Saini, Deepak Chahar, Manish Pandey, Hanuma Vihari, Shardul Thakur, Shreyas Iyer, Washington Sundar.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Thursday announced the central contracts for the 2019-20 season and in a big move former India captain\u00a0Mahendra Singh Dhoni\u00a0has been left out from all four categories. He was in the A category, which fetches a player Rs 5 crore, until last year. Dropping from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":314123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[2516,6721],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318950"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318955,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318950\/revisions\/318955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/314123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}