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Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane And Hardik Pandya Get Demoted In BCCI Central Contracts

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BCCI has finalised the latest Central Contracts list for India players for the year 2022. Meanwhile, Cheteshwar Pujara and former Test vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane, who have been axed for the Sri Lanka Test series, were on Wednesday downgraded in the latest central contracts list of the BCCI that was ratified by the Board’s Apex Council.

The BCCI has four categories — A+ which has annual remuneration of Rs 7 crore while A, B and C categories are valued at Rs 5 crore, Rs 3 crore and Rs 1 crore respectively. Although , Ajinkya Rahane, Cheteshwar Pujara, Hardik Pandya and Wriddhiman Saha have been downgraded in the latest BCCI central contracts. However, the list is updated each year based on the performance of the cricketers.

Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Jasprit Bumrah retained in the as A+ grade. However, Pujara, Rahane and Ishant Sharma, who were in Grade A until last year, are now in Grade B. This comes after the trio were dropped for the Test series against Sri Lanka, which begins in Mohali on Friday.  Category A has five players including Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Rishabh Pant, KL Rahul and Mohammed Shami.

Hardik Pandya, who has not played any international cricket since the T20 World Cup in UAE last year, has been demoted to Group C, along with Shikhar Dhawan. While, Wriddhiman Saha, who has been dropped from the Test team, will still be richer by Rs 1 crore after being demoted from group B to C.

‘Someone else took credit of what I did in Australia series’: Ajinkya Rahane

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Former Test vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane has revealed that someone else took the credit for what he achieved during the 2020-21 Border-Gavaskar Trophy. In a chat on Backstage with Boria, Rahane broke silence on a number of matters pertaining to his career.

Rahane opened up about how his contributions to India’s glorious Border-Gavaskar Trophy victory in 2021 always went unnoticed.  The Indian batsman who led the team during the India tour of Australia in 2021 spoke elaborately about how others walked away with the credit for his decision during the series. Rahane said that there were few decisions that he had taken but someone else took the credit, adding that the important thing for him was to win the series. 

“I know what I’ve done in Australia series and that’s not my nature to go out there and take credits. Yes, there were few decisions that I had taken, but someone else took the credit. Important was for me to win the series,” Rahane said. However, since his match-winning 112 at MCG in December of 2020, runs have dried up for Rahane. Since January of 2021, Rahane has featured in 15 Tests and has scored only three half-centuries.

Many experts said that Rahane is in the twilight of his career. In fact, many feel that Rahane has already played his final Test for India. However, the man himself doesn’t feel that those who thoroughly understand the game would make such comments. “I just smile when people says my career is finished, people who know the sport don’t talk like that – everyone knows what happened in Australia/even before it, my contribution in red ball – people who love the sport will talk sensibly,” said Rahane.