India T20 skipper Harmanpreet Kaur, vice-captain Smriti Mandhana and Poonam Yadav have been retained in the Grade A of the annual player contracts for senior women cricketers, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced.
The trio, be paid a sum of Rs 50 lakh for the period running between between October 2020 and September 2021.
On the other hand, One-day International (ODI) skipper Mithali Raj is placed in Grade B.
Other players in Mithali’s Grade are veteran pace bowler Jhulan Goswami, Punam Raut, Deepti Sharma, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Shafali Verma, Radha Yadav, Shikha Pandey, Taniya Bhatia and Jemimah Rodrigues, who all will get a sum of Rs 30 lakh each.
Notably, three of them — opener Shafali Verma, Punam Raut and Rajeshwari Gayakwad — have been promoted to Grade B from Grade C.
Mansi Joshi, Arundhati Reddy, Pooja Vastrakar, Harleen Deol, Priya Punia and Richa Ghosh are in Grade C and will get Rs 10 lakh each.