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The Indian Cricket Board recently announced the list of players in their central contract for the 2022-23 season. The newly-announced list of contracted players has also seen the entry of some new names in the list ahead of the much-anticipated Indian T20 League 2023. Meanwhile, the board has also demoted a couple of players from their previous contracts.
In the same line of events, the senior Indian batter KL Rahul has faced a downfall in the contracts as the board has demoted him from Grade A to Grade B. Notably, KL Rahul recently played an impressive knock in the first of the recently-concluded three-match ODI series against Australia.
Just after this news of KL Rahul’s demotion, a section of the Indian fans didn’t miss this chance to troll the 30-year-old; they immediately took to the micro-blogging site Twitter and came up with some harsh reactions while trolling the veteran Karnataka batter.
Here’s how fans reacted:
Bahar kyu nahi nikala ❤️du ko
— Words_Verses_&_Tea ☕ (@Cha_smosa_jlebi) March 26, 2023
Irani trophy key qualifiers khilao ussey
— 'Artist' Naam To Suna Hoga (@realmeramukaka) March 26, 2023
Venky parsad to akash chopra pic.twitter.com/xXkL9btj6s
— , (@kurkureter) March 26, 2023
Contract diya hee kyu isko🤔
— Sunny Kaushik (@sunnykaushik24) March 26, 2023
KLR to BCCI: pic.twitter.com/u6ZllLFDyp
— 3rd Man🏏 (@3rdMan__) March 27, 2023
He has 50 cr flat .audi everything.. wouldn't matter much 🙈🙈😂
— Abhiishek Singh🇮🇳 (@EsotericAbhii22) March 27, 2023
isko to part time main dalna chahiya koi 'e' type ka group nahi hain kya
— VÍẞH (@Shivvishnu6161) March 27, 2023
He certainly had enough chances, I really hope he takes this as a motivation and bounces back
— ಆರ್. ಮನೀಶ್ 🇮🇳 {Manish RMZ } (@MANISH__RMZ) March 26, 2023
The board has kept the skipper Rohit Sharma in grade A of the central contract. The list of Grade A+ also included the likes of former Indian skipper and batting superstar, Virat Kohli alongside pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah and star all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja.
Speaking of the updated names in Grade A includes the names of Hardik Pandya, Ravichandran Ashwin, Mohammad Shami, Rishabh Pant, and Axar Patel.
Here’s a look at the names in Grade B and Grade C of the Indian Cricket Board’s central contract for 2022-23.
Grade B:
Cheteshwar Pujara, KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Mohammed Siraj, Suryakumar Yadav, Shubman Gill
Grade C:
Umesh Yadav, Shikhar Dhawan, Shardul Thakur, Ishan Kishan, Deepak Hooda, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Sanju Samson, Washington Sundar, Arshdeep Singh, KS Bharat.
Now, most of the players from this list will be in action during the upcoming 16th edition of the Indian T20 League; starting from the 31st of March with the inaugural match between Chennai and Gujarat at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.