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#5 BCCI considers T20Is as a criterion for central contracts

BCCI for the first time decided to reward players by providing contracts based on T20I performances

T20I specialist players like Shardul Thakur, Navdeep Saini, and Deepak Chahar have benefitted from BCCI's new criteria of rewarding T20 players with Annual Central Contracts.

In the recently announced contracts for the 2019-20 season, BCCI acknowledged the T20 specialists and rewarded them with annual contracts for the first time. According to the sports highest body, at least 10 T20Is have been kept as a compulsory yardstick for a player to be considered for the central contract, with an eye on the T20 WC to be held in Australia this year.

“The selectors were told to go ahead with this new criterion for T20 specialists. This is likely to be approved in the next apex council meeting.”

“The board is looking forward to the two T20 World Cups scheduled for the next two years. That’s why the players who have done well in white-ball cricket post the 2019 World Cup — like Deepak Chahar, Navdeep Saini, Shardul Thakur, Shreyas Iyer, and Washington Sundar — have been given contracts.

"These players are seen as prospects to make it to the T20 World Cup in Australia in October. KL Rahul too has been promoted to Grade A from B largely based on his form in white-ball cricket.”

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