Shreyas Iyer set to regain BCCI central contract; discussion with Gambhir, Agarkar on March 29 | Cricket News

Mumbai: In-form batter Shreyas Iyer is set to regain his BCCI central contract when the highest brass of the Indian cricket board broadcasts the total record of retained gamers for the 2024-25 season someday this week.
It’s learnt that the BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia will meet India’s head coach Gautam Gambhir, at present vacationing in France with his household after main India to victory within the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy and chief selector Ajit Agarkar in Guwahati on March 29 for a discussion on the central contracts.
Guwahati is set to host the IPL match between Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings on March 30, a day after these discussions.
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The BCCI introduced the India girls’s cricketers’ contracts three days in the past.
While Iyer is set to get again his BCCI central contract, issues are usually not that sure for Ishan Kishan, who too had been excluded from the record of gamers with central contracts for the 2023-24 season final 12 months, provided that each gamers skipped home matches regardless of clear directions from the apex Indian cricketing physique.
“Shreyas is set to regain his contract, and it will be in a top category. However, discussions are still ongoing on whether in Ishan’s case,” a supply informed TOI.
Iyer was the very best run-getter for India in in India’s victorious marketing campaign within the 2025 Champions Trophy just lately, scoring 243 runs in 5 matches at 48.60, with two fifties, and is an integral a part of India’s ODI aspect, whereas Kishan made a sensational debut for Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL-2025 on March 23, smashing 106 not out off simply 47 balls towards Rajasthan Royals.

The different large level of discussion has been whether or not India’s ODI and Test captain Rohit Sharma, celebrity batsman Virat Kohli and allrounder Ravindra Jadeja can be retained within the highest A+ class of central contracts, regardless of having retired from T20Is.
However, a supply within the BCCI knowledgeable that “all three will be retained in the highest category, along with Jasprit Bumrah.”
Rohit, in fact, is slated to lead India on their five-Test tour of England this summer season.

Axar could also be promoted, Varun, Abhishek & NKR set to get maiden BCCI contracts

Meanwhile, left-arm spinning allrounder Axar Patel, who has grown in stature over the previous few years and is now the vice-captain of India’s T20 aspect, is probably going to be promoted from Grade B to Grade A. He performed key roles in India’s two ICC title wins within the final two years.
Meanwhile, “Mystery spinner” Varun Chakravarthy, who made a profitable return to the Indian workforce final October and performed a stellar position in India successful the 2025 Champions Trophy with 9 wickets to his title in simply three matches, is set to bag his maiden BCCI contract.

Also set to obtain their first BCCI central contracts can be younger allrounder Nitish Kumar Reddy, who was spectacular within the 2024-25 Border-Gavaskar Trophy, the place he performed all 5 Tests within the sequence and cracked his maiden hundred within the Boxing Day Test on the Melbourne Cricket Ground, and younger opener Abhishek Sharma, who smashed an outstanding 135 off simply 54 balls towards England within the fifth and remaining T20I on the Wankhede Stadium on Feb 2 this 12 months.
The title of former off-spinning nice Ravichandran Ashwin, who retired throughout India’s tour of Australia final winter, can be naturally faraway from the record of BCCI’s centrally-contracted gamers after he introduced his worldwide retirement final 12 months throughout the Australia tour.