Yamal to earn 15 million Euros in extended contract with Barcelona
Lamine Yamal, Barcelona’s new sensation will earn 15 million Euros in the new contract the club has has signed. The announcement was made on Tuesday. The new contract has been made till 2031. The teen sensation will ultimately earn 20 million Euros including the performance bonus according to report from Bein Sports. Yamal played a major role in guiding Barcelona clinch La Liga, Spanish Cup. Even he proved his mettle in the Champions League this season where Barcelona crashed out in the last four.
Shreyas and Kishan back in the BCCI contract; Pant gets an upgrade
Shreyas Iyer and Ishan Kishan are back on the BCCI’s central contracts list for 2024-25 after being left out the previous time. The top tier of the contracts (A+) has four players –Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah and Rabindra Jadeja. However Rohit, Kohli and Jadeja have retired from T-20Is after India won the T-20 World Cup in June last year. Rishav Pant has been promoted from Grade B to Grade A, which also has Mohammad Siraj, KL Rahul, Shubman Gill, Hardik Pandya, and Mohammad Shami. Pant had previously been in Grade A – for the 2022-23 season but was moved down to Grade-B after not playing for over a year following a horrific car crash in December 2022. He returned to play IPL 2024 and has since been part of all formats for India – he’s played 10 Tests, one ODI, and 10 T20Is since then – and has returned to Grade A. Iyer, meanwhile, is part of Grade B along with Kuldeep Yadav, Axar Patel, Yashasvi Jaiswal and India T-20I captain Suryakumar Yadav, while Kishan has been added to Grade C. The new entrants in the contracts’ list – all currently in Grade C – are Nitish Reddy, Dhruv Jurel, Abhishek Sharma, Sarfaraz Khan, Akash Deep, Varun Chakrabarthy, and Harshit Rana. Shardul Thakur, KS Bharat, Avesh Khan, and Jitesh Sharma, who were all on the Grade C list – the lowest of the retainers – last year, have been dropped. The BCCI did not mention the amounts for the four contract categories, but the players in the A+ category are paid Rs 7 crore, the players contracted in A grade are given Rs 5 crore, the B-graded cricketers are allotted Rs 3 crore, and the cricketers listed in C-grade are paid Rs 1 crore.
