Earlier this month, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced the Indian Men’s Cricketers’ salary and contract details for 2022. This includes the pay for international as well as domestic cricket.
This year the BCCI has announced 27 central contracts, as opposed to 28 in 2021. Players can belong to one of four categories: Grade A+, receiving a yearly salary of 7 crore, and Grade A, Grade B, and Grade C, and will receive 5 crore, 3 crore and 1 crore respectively.
Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Jasprit Bumrah have been retained in the Grade A+ category. Five players remain in Grade A from last year, namely Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Rishabh Pant, KL Rahul and Mohammed Shami. Pujara, Rahane and Ishant Sharma were downgraded from Grade A to Grade B. The biggest demotion occurred for Hardik Pandya and Shikhar Dhawan, both dropping from Grade A to Grade C.
Indian Cricketers Players Salary 2021-22 | Men
| Players | Retainer Fee | Test Fee |
ODI Fee |
T20I Fee |
| Virat Kohli | 7 Crores | 15 lakh | 6 lakh | 3 lakh |
| Rohit Sharma | 7 Crores | 15 lakh | 6 lakh | 3 lakh |
| Jasprit Bumrah | 7 Crores | 15 lakh | 6 lakh | 3 lakh |
| R Ashwin | 5 crore | 15 lakh | 6 lakh | 3 lakh |
| KL Rahul | 5 crore | 15 lakh | 6 lakh | 3 lakh |
| Ravindra Jadeja | 5 crore | 15 lakh | 6 lakh | 3 lakh |
| Rishabh Pant | 5 crore | 15 lakh | 6 lakh | 3 lakh |
| Mohammed Shami | 5 crore | 15 lakh | 6 lakh | 3 lakh |
| Ajinkya Rahane | 3 crore | 15 lakh | 6 lakh | 3 lakh |
| Axar Patel | 3 crore | 15 lakh | 6 lakh | 3 lakh |
| Cheteshwar Pujara | 3 crore | 15 lakh | 6 lakh | 3 lakh |
| Shreyas Iyer | 3 crore | 15 lakh | 6 lakh | 3 lakh |
| Shardul Thakur | 3 crore | 15 lakh | 6 lakh | 3 lakh |
| Mohammed Siraj | 3 crore | 15 lakh | 6 lakh | 3 lakh |
| Ishant Sharma | 3 crore | 15 lakh | 6 lakh | 3 lakh |
| Shikhar Dhawan | 1 crore | 15 lakh | 6 lakh | 3 lakh |
| Hardik Pandya | 1 crore | 15 lakh | 6 lakh | 3 lakh |
| Yuzvendra Chahal | 1 crore | 15 lakh | 6 lakh | 3 lakh |
| Mayank Agarwal | 1 crore | 15 lakh | 6 lakh | 3 lakh |
| Deepak Chahar | 1 crore | 15 lakh | 6 lakh | 3 lakh |
| Shubman Gill | 1 crore | 15 lakh | 6 lakh | 3 lakh |
| Hanuma Vihari | 1 crore | 15 lakh | 6 lakh | 3 lakh |
| Wriddhiman Saha | 1 crore | 15 lakh | 6 lakh | 3 lakh |
| Suryakumar Yadav | 1 crore | 15 lakh | 6 lakh | 3 lakh |
| Bhuvneshwar Kumar | 1 crore | 15 lakh | 6 lakh | 3 lakh |
| Umesh Yadav | 1 crore | 15 lakh | 6 lakh | 3 lakh |
| Washington Sundar | 1 crore | 15 lakh | 6 lakh | 3 lakh |
Every Indian player is paid a fixed sum for each match: 15 lakh per Test, 6 lakh per ODI and 3 lakh per T20I. The player will receive 50% of the match fees if he is not included in the playing eleven.
Categorization based on BCCI contract 2022-2023
The grade system falls into four categories:
Grade A+: Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah
Grade A: R Ashwin, KL Rahul, Ravindra Jadeja, Rishabh Pant, Mohammed Shami
Grade B: Ajinkya Rahane, Axar Patel, Cheteshwar Pujara, Shreyas Iyer, Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Siraj, Ishant Sharma
Grade C: Shikhar Dhawan, Hardik Pandya, Yuzvendra Chahal, Mayank Agarwal, Deepak Chahar, Shubman Gill, Hanuma Vihari, Wriddhiman Saha, Suryakumar Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umesh Yadav, Washington Sundar
Players Excluded from BCCI Contracts: Kuldeep Yadav, Navdeep Saini
Domestic Men Cricketers’ Salary
| Category | Salary (INR) |
| Senior players (40+ matches) | 60,000 |
| Under 23 | 25,000 |
| Under 19 | 20,000 |
