After months of silence and struggle, Indian batters Shreyas Iyer and Ishan Kishan are officially back in the latest BCCI central contracts list. It is a comeback that speaks louder than any press conference that ever could.
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Let’s rewind the past
Both players were excluded from the annual contracts list last season. Iyer made a solid comeback after being dropped from the central contract list in 2023-24. The star batter had a fallout with the selection committee after he refused to play a Ranji Trophy match for Mumbai, following his exclusion from the Indian Test squad after the second Test against England. He had cited a back injury that kept him from playing red-ball cricket.
Iyer’s sensational Champions Trophy 2025
Since then, Shreyas has played a pivotal role in India’s victory in the 2025 Champions Trophy, where he was the team’s highest run-scorer with 243 runs from five innings. Currently, he is positioned at Grade B.
Kishan’s response
Apart from this, Ishan Kishan too joins the list after getting excluded from previous contract. He is been awarded with Grade C contract. Once doubted for consistency, Kishan answered back with flair, control, and match-winning intent for SRH.
BCCI Men’s Central Contracts for the 2024-25 season
Grade A+: Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah and Ravindra Jadeja
Grade A: Mohammed Siraj, KL Rahul, Shubman Gill, Hardik Pandya, Mohammed Shami and Rishabh Pant
Grade B: Suryakumar Yadav, Kuldeep Yadav, Axar Patel, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shreyas Iyer
Grade C: Rinku Singh, Tilak Varma, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shivam Dube, Ravi Bishnoi, Washington Sundar, Mukesh Kumar, Ishan Kishan, Sanju Samson, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Rajat Patidar, Dhruv Jurel, Sarfaraz Khan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Abhishek Sharma, Akash Deep, Varun Chakaravarthy, and Harshit Rana.
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