Young wicket-keeper batter Richa Ghosh and Jemimah Rodrigues have been elevated to B category in the BCCI central contracts for the 2022-23 season while the likes of Shikha Pandey and Taniya Bhatia have been dropped. (More Cricket News)
The contract period runs from October to September but the BCCI made th🃏e announcement on Thurs🌠day.
A player in A category gets paid Rs 50 lakh over and above match fees 💃and Rs 30 lakh and Rs 10 lakh are allotted for B and C category respectively.
The board has kept only three players in the highest category and they include skipper Harmanpreet Kaur, star batter S🍸mriti Mandhana and all-rounder Deepti Sharma.
All three have been retained in the same category, while spinner Rajeshwari Gayakwad has been demoted to B category. Leg spinner Poonam Yadav, who was in t𒀰he A categ꧑ory last year, doesn't have a contract at all after falling down in the pecking order. She last played for India in March 2022.
🔯Veteran pacer Shikha Pandey, who had made a surprise comeback for the T20 World Cup in South Africa, finds herself without a contract and so does wicket-keeper Taniya Bhatia.
Pacer Renuka Thakur, who did 𒀰not have a contract last year, has be🍨en bracketed straight into the B category after a stellar season.
Richa Ghosh and Jemimah Rodrigues have moved up from C to🌟 B category. New entrants in Category C include pacer Meghna Singh, batter Devika Vaidya, opener S Meghana, Radha Yadav, ಞleft-arm pacer Anjali Sarvani and batter Yastika Bhatia.
Harleen Deol and Sneh ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚRana remain in the lowest category, while injury prone all-rounder Pooja Vastrakar has been demoted to C from B.
Th꧟e BCCI, which announced equal pay for women ꦏcricketers last year, has kept the number of contracted to 17.
The full list:
Category A: Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandha and Deepti S♒h💟arma.
Category B: Renuka Thakur, Jemimah Rodrigues,▨ S🅠hafali Verma, Richa Ghosh, Rajeshwari Gayakwad.
Category C: Meghna Singh, Devika Vaidya, S Meghana, An🌳jali Sarvani, Pooja Va🏅strakar, Sneh Rana, Radha Yadav, Harleen Deol and Yastika Bhatia.
