The BCCI first released a list of players who have been awarded contracts and left out Irfan Pathan. But the news is that BCCI has now admitted a mistake in leaving the all rounder out and he is back on the list.
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First Irfan Pathan, who was under Grade B, went missing. Then, the BCCI announced that his name was left out by mistake. He now finds himself demoted to Grade C, sharing the group with his brother, Yusuf Pathan.
Ashish Nehra is the climber and mover as he is now in Grade B after years of wilderness from international cricket.
The revised list is as follows:
Grade D (Rs 15 lakh - Retainer Amount):
Piyush Chawla, Ravindra Jadeja, Robin Uthappa, Parthiv Patel, Cheteshwar Pujara, Mohammad Kaif, Virat Kohli, Ashok Dinda, Wriddhiman Saha, M Vijay, R Ashwin, Shikhar Dhawan, Sudeep Tyagi, Dhawal Kulkarni, Abhishek Nayar, Ajinkya Rahane, Manoj Tiwary
Grade C (Rs 25 lakh):
S Badrinath, Wasim Jaffer, Yusuf Pathan, Pragyan Ojha, Sreesanth, Dinesh Karthik, Amit Mishra, Irfan Pathan
Grade B (Rs 40 lakh):
Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Munaf Patel, RP Singh, Ishant Sharma, Praveen Kumar, Ashish Nehra
Grade A (Rs 60 lakh):
Sachin Tendulkar, MS Dhoni, Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman, Yuvraj Singh, Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh
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