India’s Richa Ghosh.
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Young wicket-keeper batter Richa Ghosh and Jemimah Rodrigues have been elevated to B class within the BCCI central contracts for the 2022-23 season whereas the likes of Shikha Pandey and Taniya Bhatia have been dropped.
The contract interval runs from October to September however the BCCI made the announcement on April 27.
A participant in A class will get paid ₹50 lakh over and above match charges and ₹30 lakh and ₹ 10 lakh are allotted for B and C class respectively.
The board has stored solely three gamers within the highest class they usually embody skipper Harmanpreet Kaur, star batter Smriti Mandhana and all-rounder Deepti Sharma.
All three have been retained in the identical class whereas spinner Rajeshwari Gayakwad has been demoted to B class. Leg spinner Poonam Yadav, who was within the A class final 12 months, does not have a contract in any respect after falling down within the pecking order. She final performed for India in March 2022.
Veteran pacer Shikha Pandey, who had made a shock comeback for the T20 World Cup in South Africa, finds herself with no contract and so does wicket-keeper Taniya Bhatia.
Pacer Renuka Thakur, who didn’t have a contract final 12 months, has been bracketed straight into the B class after a stellar season.
Richa Ghosh and Jemimah Rodrigues have moved up from C to B class. New entrants in Category C embody pacer Meghna Singh, batter Devika Vaidya, opener S Meghana, Radha Yadav, left-arm pacer Anjali Sarvani and batter Yastika Bhatia.
Harleen Deol and Sneh Rana stay within the lowest class whereas injury-prone all-rounder Pooja Vastrakar has been demoted to C from B.
The BCCI, which introduced equal pay for ladies cricketers final 12 months, has stored the variety of contracted to 17.
The full record:
Category A: Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandha and Deepti Sharma.
Category B: Renuka Thakur, Jemimah Rodrigues, Shafali Verma, Richa Ghosh, Rajeshwari Gayakwad.
Category C: Meghna Singh, Devika Vaidya, S Meghana, Anjali Sarvani, Pooja Vastrakar, Sneh Rana, Radha Yadav, Harleen Deol and Yastika Bhatia.
