IPL 2025 Indian Team Players Annual Central Contract Salary List

Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma in the highest category in our official salary of Indian team Indian Premier League (IPL) players for 2025.  

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) recently officially announced the annual retainer contracts for AY 2024-2025. A total of 34 players have been awarded the retainer central contracts with players being divided into four grades. As we have seen in the past, players are divided into four grades, viz., Grade A+, Grade A, Grade B, and Grade C. The annual salary of these Grades is 7 Cr, 5 Cr, 3 Cr, and 1 Cr respectively.

The Annual contract, which is also the annual fixed salary of a player runs from October to September months of a regular year. So, for AY 2024-2025, the contract has been awarded for a period from October 2024 to September 2025. This is the reason star players like Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, and Ravindra Jadeja are still included in A+ given their contribution in the recently played T20 World Cup 2024 and Champions Trophy 2025.

The Indian Premier League as a tournament has a highest salary of 27 Cr, which is currently held by Rishabh Pant. Apart from Pant, there are other expensive players like Shreyas Iyer for 26.75 Cr, Venkatesh Iyer for 23.75 Cr, Jasprit Bumrah and Arshdeep Singh for 18 Cr, etc. However, for being a part of the Indian team, the highest compensation on offer is 7 Cr, and that is offered to 4 players. Aside from annual salary, each player also gets a match fee for playing a Test, ODI, or T20I.

Indian Cricket Team IPL Players Salary for AY 2024-2025

Grade A+ -> INR 7 Cr

1. Jasprit Bumrah
2. Ravindra Jadeja
3. Rohit Sharma
4. Virat Kohli

Starting with the highest grade, there is no change in the players list from the highest Grade A+ as Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah, and Ravindra Jadeja continue to be in this group. Grade A+ is given to someone who plays all three formats, and these three players were a part of all three formats last year. However, when retentions are announced next year, there could be some change in the player retentions for 2025-26.

Grade A -> INR 5 Cr

1. Hardik Pandya
2. KL Rahul
3. Mohd Shami
4. Mohd Siraj
5. Rishabh Pant
6. Shubman Gill

Coming to Grade A, there is one big change in this grade as Ravichandran Ashwin is not only dropped from this Grade but also from retentions completely. In place of Ashwin, we have Rishabh Pant as a new player in Grade A. Grade A includes players like KL Rahul, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj, Hardik Pandya, and Shubman Gill. As shared by BCCI, players in Grade A will get a salary of 5 Cr. 

Grade B -> INR 3 Cr

1. Axar Patel
2. Kuldeep Yadav
3. Shreyas Iyer
4. Suryakumar Yadav
5. Yashasvi Jaiswal

For Grade B, we once again see a change as Rishabh Pant is promoted to Grade A, and Shreyas Iyer, who wasn’t a part of the central contract last year is included in Grade B. Aside from Iyer, Grade B includes players like Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Suryakumar Yadav, and Yashasvi Jaiswal. In Grade B, players will get an annual salary of 3 Cr.

Grade C -> INR 1 Cr

1. Abhishek Sharma
2. Akash Deep
3. Arshdeep Singh
4. Dhruv Jurel
5. Harshit Rana
6. Ishan Kishan
7. Mukesh Kumar
8. Nitish Reddy
9. Prasidh Krishna
10. Rajat Patidar
11. Ravi Bishnoi
12. Rinku Singh
13. Ruturaj Gaikwad
14. Sanju Samson
15. Shardul Thakur
16. Shivam Dube
17. Tilak Varma
18. Washington Sundar
19. Varun Chakravarthy

In the final grade, Grade C, there are as many as 19 players in this group. This is also the group where we see maximum changes. Among the players included in this contract are Abhishek Sharma, Akash Deep, Varun Chakravarthy, Harshit Rana, etc. Wheres among the dropouts, we have players like Avesh Khan, KS Bharat, Jitesh Sharma, etc. Overall, the players from Grade C will get a salary of 1 Cr.

Not Retained

1. Avesh Khan
2. Jitesh Sharma
3. KS Bharat
4. Shardul Thakur
5. Ravichandran Ashwin

So, that’s about the complete annual compensation salary details for Team India players who are also a part of IPL 2025. The annual contract for 2026 shall run from October 2025 to September 2026, and thus will include performance in the T20 World Cup 2026. With many new faces being a part of this central contract, it will be interesting to see who entered and exits the list next time when contracts are announced in May 2026.

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