India's Men and Women Cricketers Match Fee Compare

The Board of Control for Cricket in India announced the Annual Player Contract for Team India player salary. A Cricketer in India earns in a lot of ways like – Advertising, sponsorship, becoming a brand ambassador, playing other Cricket leagues like IPL, owning brands, and more.

This year the BCCI has announced 27 central contracts, as opposed to 28 in 2022. Players can belong to one of four categories: Grade A+, receiving a yearly salary of 7 crores, and Grade A, Grade B, and Grade C, and will receive 5 crores, 3 crores,s 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.

Grade Categories System

• 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

Grade A+ Players

Players who are named as Grade A+ players list will receive a number of salary Rs. 7 Crores annually. Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, and Jasprit Bumrah are the players are listed under the Grade A+ Groups.

Grade  A Players

Players who are under the list of Grade A category receive an Rs. 5 Crore annual salary. R. Ashwin, KL Rahu, Ravindra Jadeja, Rishabh Pant, and Mohammad Shami are on the list of Grade A Category Players. 

Grade B

B Grade underlisted players receive a salary of Rs. 3 Crore annually. Ajinkya Rahane, Axar Patel, Cheteshwar Pujara, Shreyas Iyer, Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Siraj, and Ishant Sharma are listed under the B Grade Players in Team India. 

Grade C

Players named under the list of Grade C will receive a salary of Rs. 1 Crore annually. Shikhar Dhawan, Hardik Pandya, Yuzvendra Chahal, Mayank Agarwal, Deepak Chahar, Shubman Gill, Hanuma Vihari, Wriddhiman Sah, Suryakumar Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umesh Yadav, and Washington Sundar are listed under the grade C players

Indian Cricket players Salary 2022

Earlier, the women player received Rs. 1 Lakh each for ODI and T20I while the match fee for a test match was Rs. 4 Lakh. 

According to the newly-introduced system, the Indian women's cricketers will now receive Rs. 15 Lakh per Test, Rs. 6 lakh per ODI, and Rs.3 lakh per T20I the same as their male counterparts. 

This means that the players will see a 275% hike in the Test fee, a 200% hike in the T20 fee, and a whopping 500% hike in ODI Fee. 

The women cricketers in the highest bracket earn Rs. 50 lakh, while Grade B and Grade C players get Rs. 30 lakh and Rs. 10 lakh respective their current annual contracts.

On the other hand, men in the Grade A+bracket are paid Rs. 7 crores. Those in Grades A, B, and C get Rs. 5 Crore, Rs. 3 Crore, and Rs. 1 Crore respectively. 

This means that the lowest-graded male cricketers still earn twice as much as top-tier women cricketers.