Twitter Reacts As MS Dhoni Finds No Place In BCCI’s Central Contract

Jan 16, 2020 at 3:01 PM

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Twitter Reacts As MS Dhoni Finds No Place In BCCI’s Central Contract

Former Indian skipper MS Dhoni could not find any place in the player’s central contract which was released by the Board of Control for Cricket in India on Thursday. BCCI came up with the list as Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Jasprit Bumrah were named in the A+ category. Dhoni had played his last international match in the Indian colors when India faced a heartbreaking loss against New Zealand in the semifinal of the ICC World Cup.

Subsequently, Dhoni took a sabbatical from the game and decided to serve the Indian army. After his short stint with the army, Dhoni made himself unavailable for the national selection. In fact, Dhoni was expected to call it a day from all forms of the game after the World Cup exit but it wasn’t to be the case.

MS Dhoni. Credits: AP Photo

Retirement on the cards?

No place for Dhoni in the national contract is also the harbinger that his retirement can be on the cards. Indian team head coach Ravi Shastri recently made it clear that Dhoni will not play ODI cricket. However, Dhoni can return to the T20I side given the fact if he has a good season with the Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League 2020.

Dhoni has not made any announcements regarding his future and it would be interesting to note his mindset after he is not named in the central contract.

MS Dhoni, Ranchi Test
MS Dhoni (Image Credits: Diwakar Prasad via Hindustan Times)

BCCI Central Contracts for 2019-20

  • Grade A+ (INR 7 cr): Virat Kohli Rohit Sharma Jasprit Bumrah

  • Grade A (INR 5 cr): Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, KL Rahul, Shikhar Dhawan, Mohd. Shami, Ishant Sharma, Kuldeep Yadav, Rishabh Pant

  • Grade B (INR 3 cr): Wriddhiman Saha, Umesh Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Hardik Pandya, Mayank Agarwal

  • Grade C (INR 1 cr): Kedar Jadhav, Navdeep Saini, Deepak Chahar, Manish Pandey, Hanuma Vihari, Shardul Thakur, Shreyas Iyer, Washington Sundar

On the other hand, Navdeep Saini is named in the Grade C category and gets the contract for the first time. Furthermore, Deepak Chahar and Washington Sundar also make the cut into the same category for the maiden time in his career.

Grade A+, A, B and C categories receives 7 crores, 5 crores, 3 crores and 1 crores respectively.

Here is how Twitter reacted to MS Dhoni’s absence in the contract:

 

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