BCCI central contracts: Richa Ghosh, Jemimah Rodrigues promoted to B category; Shikha Pandey dropped

New Delhi: The BCCI on Thursday announced central contracts for the 2022-23 season, promoting wicket-keeper batter Richa Ghosh and Jemimah Rodrigues to category B and dropping Shikha Pandey and Taniya Bhatia.

For Category A the board has kept only three players; skipper Harmanpreet Kaur, star batter Smriti Mandhana and all-rounder Deepti Sharma.

Those in A category get paid Rs 50 lakh over and above match fees, while those in B and C get Rs 30 lakh and Rs 10 lakh respectively.

The contract period runs from October to September.

While all three senior players are retained in the highest category, spinner Rajeshwari Gayakwad has been demoted to the B category.

Leg spinner Poonam Yadav, who was in the A category last year, doesn’t have a contract at all after falling down in the pecking order. She last played for India in March 2022.

Veteran pacer Shikha Pandey also, who had made a surprise comeback for the T20 World Cup in South Africa, finds herself without a contract and so does wicket-keeper Taniya Bhatia.

Meanwhile, pacer Renuka Thakur, who did not have a contract last year, has been bracketed straight into the B category after a stellar season.

New entrants in Category C include 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 remain in the lowest category while injury-prone all-rounder Pooja Vastrakar has been demoted to C from B.

The BCCI, which announced equal pay for women cricketers last year, has kept the number of contracted to 17.

With inputs from PTI
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