Mumbai: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Friday announced retainerships for cricketers in various categories for the 2012-13 season. There are nine players in Grade 'A' category, eight in Grade 'B' and 20 players in Grade 'C'.
Tamil Nadu and India off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has been promoted from Grade 'B' to Grade 'A', replacing Harbhajan Singh. Irfan Pathan too got himself a Grade B contract after being ignored for the last two seasons.
Ishant Sharma has been demoted from Grade A to Grade B, while Praveen Kumar and Ravindra Jadeja find themselves moving down to Grade C from Grade B. Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane and Umesh Yadav got promoted from Grade C to Grade B. Ashok Dinda and Lakshmipathy Balaji made it to Grade C, while Saurashtra's Jaydev Unadkat, previously in Grade C, failed to retain his contract.
The details of the retainerships are as follows:
Grade A: Rs.1 crore each
1. Sachin Tendulkar
2. M S Dhoni
3. Zaheer Khan
4. Virender Sehwag
5. Gautam Gambhir
6. Suresh Raina
7. Yuvraj Singh
8. Virat Kohli
9. R Ashwin
Grade B: Rs.50 lakhs each
1. Harbhajan Singh
2. Ishant Sharma
3. Pragyan Ojha
4. Rohit Sharma
5. Cheteshwar Pujara
6. Ajinkya Rahane
7. Irfan Pathan
8. Umesh Yadav
Grade C: Rs.25 lakhs each
1. Ravindra Jadeja
2. Amit Mishra
3. Vinay Kumar
4. Munaf Patel
5. Abhimanyu Mithun
6. Murali Vijay
7. Shikhar Dhawan
8. Wriddhiman Saha
9. Parthiv Patel
10. Manoj Tiwary
11. S Badrinath
12. Piyush Chawla
13. Dinesh Karthik
14. Rahul Sharma
15. Varun Aaron
16. Abhinav Mukund
17. Ashok Dinda
18. Yusuf Pathan
19. Praveen Kumar
20. L Balaji
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