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MS Dhoni, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina included in BCCI Grade A contracts

MS Dhoni, Virat Kohli, R.Ashwin, B.Kumar and Suresh Raina given Grade A contracts.

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Suresh Raina and MS Dhoni are part of the Grade A contracts © Getty Images

Dec 22, 2014

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced the list of the contracted players for 2014-15. The players are divided into three groups. Making up Grade A are captain MS Dhoni, Ravichandran Ashwin, Suresh Raina, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Virat Kohli. This signals the end of the road for Yuvraj Singh, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Harbhajan Singh and Zaheer Khan as they have been given any contracts by the board.

Grade B will feature Pragyan Ojha, Murali Vijay, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ravindra Jadeja, Ishant Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Umesh Yadav, Rohit Sharma, Ajinkya Rahane, Ambati Rayudu & Mohammad Shami and finally Grade C will include Amit Mishra, Varun Aaron, Wriddhiman Saha, Stuart Binny, Pankaj Singh, R. Vinay Kumar, Mohit Sharma, Dhawal Kulkarni, Parveez Rasool, Akshar Patel, Manoj Tiwary, Robin Uthappa, Karn Sharma, Sanju Samson, Kuldeep Yadav & K L Rahul.

Yuvraj’s century at the Ranji Trophy match against was not good enough to earn him a contract. Harbhajan and Sehwag played their last match for India against Australia in in Hyderabad in March 2013, whereas Zaheer Khan played the Test series against New Zealand in February 2014. Gambhir on the other hand last played a match when  he represented India during their Test series away in England.

India are currently playing a Test series against Australia and will play a tri-series featuring England and Australia down under. They will play the ICC World Cup 2015, scheduled to start from February 14, co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand. By the looks of things the so called ‘Big five’ have missed their chances to impress.

 

 

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