The trio, in 'A+' category, will earn Rs 7 crore for the year.
There are 10 players in the 'A' category who will get Rs 5 crore each while five players in category 'B' will get Rs 3 crore each.
The 10 cricketers in the 'C' category will get Rs 1 crore each.
List of contracted players
Grade A+ Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Jasprit Bumrah.
Grade A R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Shikhar Dhawan, K.L. Rahul, Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma, Rishabh Pant, Hardik Pandya.
Grade B Wriddhiman Saha, Umesh Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Shardul Thakur, Mayank Agarwal.
Grade C Kuldeep Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Deepak Chahar, Shubman Gill, Hanuma Vihari, Axar Patel, Shreyas Iyer, Washington Sundar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Mohammad Siraj.
New Delhi, April 15
The Indian cricket board (BCCI) has included three players -- skipper Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Jasprit Bumrah -- in the top bracket of its annual player contracts for the period of October, 2020 to September, 2021.
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