Nehra receives Grade B contract from BCCI

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has awarded a central contract to pacer Ashish Nehra, who returned to India's one-day team for the first time since September 2005 for the series in West Indies earlier this year.

The left-arm seamer has been awarded a Grade B contract which carries a retainer fee of four million Indian rupees (about 52,000 pounds).

Whereas, another fast bowler Praveen Kumar has been moved up from Grade C (2.5 million rupees, about 32,000 pounds) to Grade B.

No changes has been made in the top grade (six million rupees, about 77,700 pounds), which includes captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman.

Mumbai's Dhawal Kulkarni, Ajinkya Rahane and Abhishek Nayar have been handed Grade D (1.5 million rupees, 19,400 pounds) contracts along with Manoj Tiwary.

Grade A: Sachin Tendulkar, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman, Yuvraj Singh, Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh.

Grade B: Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Munaf Patel, RP Singh, Ishant Sharma, Praveen Kumar, Ashish Nehra.

Grade C: S Badrinath, Wasim Jaffer, Yusuf Pathan, Pragyan Ojha, Sreesanth, Dinesh Karthik, Amit Mishra.

Grade D: Piyush Chawla, Ravindra Jadeja, Robin Uthappa, Parthiv Patel, Cheteshwar Pujara, Mohammad Kaif, Virat Kohli, Ashok Dinda, Wriddhiman Saha, M Vijay, R Ashwin, Shikhar Dhawan, Sudeep Tyagi, Dhawal Kulkarni, Abhishek Nayar, Ajinkya Rahane, Manoj Tiwary.

-- (UNI) -- 25SPD32.xml

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