Indian Cricketers Salaries: How much each player of India team earns through BCCI and IPL?

The BCCI set the Indian Cricketers Salaries (both men and women) depending on their performance, which is measured in points and used to determine where they rank in the BCCI’s grading system.

Men’s cricketers will be graded in four different ways, while women’s cricketers will be graded in three different ways, according to the BCCI.

Indian Cricketers Salaries List

In India, a cricketer can earn money in a variety of ways, including advertising, sponsorship, becoming a brand ambassador, participating in other cricket leagues such as the IPL, owning brands, and more.

BCCI’s Grading system for Men’s

Both men’s and women’s international and domestic cricket teams are paid by the BCCI.

International Crickets Salary

Domestic Cricketers Salary

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BCCI’s Grading system for Women’s

In 2022, the BCCI has raised the match cost for female cricketers. Senior women (playing XI) will be paid 20,000 every match day, a 12,500 rise from before.

International Cricketers Salary

Domestic Cricketers Salary

Indian Mens Cricketers Salary

On March 2, 2022, the BCCI Supreme Council approved the BCCI contract list 2022. The BCCI had previously granted central contracts to 28 cricketers, however this year just 27 have been selected. Kuldeep Yadav and Navdeep Saini are two players who have been completely removed from the BCCI Central Contract List 2022.

Grade A+ Players

This list’s players will be paid a salary of Rs. 7 crores per year. The players included in this grade are as follows:

1. Virat Kohli
2. Rohit Sharma
3. Jasprit Bumrah

Grade A players 

This list’s players will be paid a salary of Rs. 5 crores per year. The players included in this grade are as follows:

1. R Ashwin
2. KL Rahul
3. Ravindra Jadeja
4. Rishabh Pant
5. Mohammed Shami

Grade B players

This list’s players will be paid a salary of Rs. 3 crores per year. The players included in this grade are as follows:

1. Ajinkya Rahane
2. Axar Patel
3. Cheteshwar Pujara
4. Shreyas Iyer
5. Shardul Thakur
6. Mohammed Siraj
7. Ishant Sharma

Grade C players 

This list’s players will be paid a salary of Rs. 1 crores per year. The players included in this grade are as follows:

1. Shikhar Dhawan
2. Hardik Pandya
3. Yuzvendra Chahal
4. Mayank Agarwal
5. Deepak Chahar
6. Shubman Gill
7. Hanuma Vihari
8. Wriddhiman Saha
9. Suryakumar Yadav
10. Bhuvneshwar Kumar
11. Umesh Yadav
12. Washington Sundar

Apart from the BCCI annual salary, the players will also receive an income for playing in every Test, ODI, and T20I match.

An Indian player has a fixed match fee of Rs 15 lakh for a Test match. For an ODI, a player earns Rs 6 lakh while he earns Rs 3 lakh for every T20I. Those who don’t make it to the playing XI draw 50% of the match fee.

Following are the full list of Indian cricket players salary along with their match fee:

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Indian Women Cricketers Salary

The Board of Control for Cricket in India announced the Annual Player Contracts for Team India (Senior Women) for the period from October 2020 to September 2021.

Grade A players

This list’s players will be paid a salary of  Rs. 50 Lakhs per year. The players included in this grade are as follows:

1. Mithali Raj
2. Harmanpreet Kaur
3. Smriti Mandhana
4. Poonam Yadav

Grade B players

This list’s players will be paid a salary of Rs. 30 Lakhs per year. The players included in this grade are as follows:

1. Ekta Bisht
2. Jhulan Goswami
3. Shikha Pandey
4. Deepti Sharma
5. Jemimah Rodrigues

Grade C players 

This list’s players will be paid a salary of Rs. 10 Lakhs per year. The players included in this grade are as follows:

1. Radha Yadav
2. D Hemalatha
3. Anuja Patil
4. Veda Krishnamurthy
5. Mansi Joshi
6. Punam Raut
7. Mona Meshram
8. Arundhati Reddy
9. Rajeshwari Gayakwad
10. Taniya Bhatia
11. Pooja Vastrakar

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Bonus along with Indian Cricketers Salary

Aside from their compensation, each Indian cricketer would be rewarded for their individual success in all three formats of the game. Their match fee does not include the award money.

• 5 Lakh rupees for scoring a hundred in a test or ODI
• 7 Lakh rupees for a double hundred in the test
• 5 Lakh rupees for 5 wicket haul in Test, ODI, or T20
• 7 Lakh rupees for a 10 wicket haul in test matches