On an eventful day BCCI announced the new central contracts for players. Ashish Nehra and Irfan Pathan were the one’s to hit the headllines because of new contracts.

Ashish Nehra got a Grade B contract. Nehra had been impressive since his return from injury. He will get around $86,580 for the period Oct. 1, 2009 to Sept 30, 2010.

BCCI shocked everyone when they removed Irfan Pathan’s name from the initial list. Later they edited the list and added Irfan Pathan’s name in Grade C contract list. They said, his name was left out due to some error.

Grade A (Rs 60 lakh): Sachin Tendulkar, MS Dhoni, Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman, Yuvraj Singh, Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh.

Grade B (Rs 40 lakh): Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Munaf Patel, RP Singh, Ishant Sharma, Praveen Kumar, Ashish Nehra.

Grade C (Rs 25 lakh): S Badrinath, Wasim Jaffer, Irfan Pathan, Yusuf Pathan, Pragyan Ojha, Sreesanth, Dinesh Karthik, Amit Mishra.

Grade D (Rs 15 lakh): 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.