Indian Cricket Players Salary: BCCI allotted the salary for the Indian cricketers (both Men and women) based on their performance which reflects in their points to get positioned in the BCCI’s grading system.
BCCI so far announced four grading systems for Men’s cricketers and three grading systems for women’s cricketers.
Indian Cricket Players Salary List
Indian Cricket Players Salary: A Cricketer in India earns in a lot of ways like – Advertising, sponsorship, becoming a brand ambassador, playing other Cricket leagues like IPL, owning brands, and more.
Qualification for BCCI’s annual central contacts:
- A+ category – All three formats player
- A category – All three formats, at least 2 formats, Test cricket necessary
- B category – Two formats
- C category – Single format player
BCCI’s Grading System for Men’s
BCCI pays for both International and domestic cricket teams for both men and women categories.
International Crickets Salary
| Grade A + | Grade A | Grade B | Grade C |
| INR 7 Cr | INR 5 Cr | INR 3 Cr | INR 1 Cr |
Domestic Cricketers Salary
| Category | Salary |
| Seniors(above 40 matches) | INR 60,000 |
| Under 23 | INR 25,000 |
| Under 19 | INR 20,000 |
BCCI’s Grading System for Women’s
BCCI has increased the match fee for women domestic cricketers in the year 2022. Senior women (playing XI) will get INR 20,000 per match day where they were receiving INR 12,500 before.
International Cricketers Salary
| Grade A | Grade B | Grade C |
| INR 50 Lakhs | INR 30 Lakhs | INR 10 Lakhs |
Domestic Cricketers Salary
| Category | Salary |
| Senior women (playing XI) | INR 20,000 |
Men’s Cricketer’s Salary
The Board of Control for Cricket in India on Wednesday announced the Annual Player Contracts for Team India (Senior Men) for the 2023-24 season (October 1st, 2023 to September 30th, 2024).
Shreyas Iyer and Ishan Kishan were not considered for the annual contracts in this round of recommendations.
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.
Test Cricket Incentive Scheme for Senior Men
Commencing from the 2022-23 season, the ‘Test Cricket Incentive Scheme’ will serve as an additional reward structure on top of the existing match fee for Test matches, set at INR 15 lakhs.
| Matches Played | Assuming 9 Tests in a Season | Playing 11 Incentive(INR) | Non-Playing 11 Incentive(INR) |
| Less than 50% | Less than 4 | Not Applicable | Not Applicable |
| More than 50% | 5 and 6 | 30 Lakhs per match | 15 Lakhs per match |
| More than 75% | 7 or more | 45 Lakhs per match | 22.5 Lakhs per match |
Grade A+ Players
Players named under this list will receive a salary of INR 7 Crores annually. Following are the list of players who are listed under this grade:
Grade A players
Players named under this list will receive a salary of INR 5 crore annually. Following are the list of players who are listed under this grade:
- R Ashwin
- Mohammed Shami
- Mohammed Siraj
- KL Rahul
- Shubman Gill
- Hardik Pandya
Grade B players
Players named under this list will receive a salary of INR 3 crore annually. Following are the list of players who are listed under this grade:
- Surya Kumar Yadav
- Rishabh Pant
- Kuldeep Yadav
- Axar Patel
- Yashasvi Jaiswal
Grade C players
Players named under this list will receive a salary of INR 1 crore annually. Following are the list of players who are listed under this grade:
- Rinku Singh
- Tilak Verma
- Ruturaj Gaekwad
- Shardul Thakur
- Shivam Dube
- Ravi Bishnoi
- Jitesh Sharma
- Washington Sundar
- Mukesh Kumar
- Sanju Samson
- Arshdeep Singh
- KS Bharat
- Prasidh Krishna
- Avesh Khan
- Rajat Patidar
- Sarfaraz Khan
- Dhruv Jurel
Indian Women Cricketer’s Salary
The Board of Control for Cricket in India announced the Annual Player Contracts for Team India (Senior Women) for the 2022-23 season
As for Men cricketers, Women cricketers will also receive the same amount of match fee for all three formats. As per the rule, women cricketers will receive the following fee per match across the formats:
- Tests – 15 Lakhs(per match)
- ODIs – 6 Lakhs(per match)
- T20Is – 3 Lakhs(per match)
Grade A players
Players named under this list will receive a salary of INR 50 Lakhs annually. Following are the list of players who are listed under this grade:
- Harmanpreet Kaur
- Smriti Mandhana
- Deepti Sharma
Grade B players
Players named under this list will receive a salary of INR 30 Lakhs annually. Following are the list of players who are listed under this grade:
- Renuka Singh Thakur
- Jemimah Rodrigues
- Shafali Verma
- Richa Ghosh
- Rajeshwari Gayakwad
Grade C players
Indian Cricket Players Salary – Players named under this list will receive a salary of INR 10 Lakhs annually. Following are the Indian cricketers who are listed under this grade:
- Meghna Singh
- Devika Vaidya
- Sabbineni Meghana
- Anjali Sarvani
- Sneh Rana
- Radha Yadav
- Harleen Deol
- Yastika Bhatia
- Pooja Vastrakar
Bonus for Indian Cricketers
Apart from the Indian cricket players salary, every Indian cricketer would receive a reward for their individual performance in all three format matches. This reward money is not included in their match fee.
- Rs 500,000 for scoring a hundred in a test or ODI
- Rs 700,000 for a double hundred in the test
- Rs 500,000 for 5 wicket haul in Test, ODI, or T20
- Rs 700,000 for a 10-wicket haul in test matches
