The 16-woman BCCI list of key contracts for 2024–25 has some intriguing additions and omissions after missing the announcement for the 2023–24 season. In Grade C, which saw the most change from the 2022–2023 list, promising young bowler Titas Sadhu, medium-pace all-rounders Arundhati Reddy and Amanjot Kaur, wicketkeeper-bat Uma Chetry, and now injured Shreyanka Patil have all made the cut.
Interestingly, only Amanjot Kaur, one of the newcomers, has yet to return to India following a stress fracture of her back that ended her season between the second and third Women’s Premier League seasons. In January 2024, she made her final appearance for the national team.As the team won its second championship in three years, the all-rounder for MI and Punjab was just named the WPL’s Emerging Player of the Season 2025.
Meghna Singh, Devika Vaidya, S Meghana, Anjali Sarvani, and Harleen Deol—who recently made her India comeback and achieved her first ODI century—are among the players left out of Group C.
Reddy, who made her ODI debut and T20I comeback in the previous season, has since dropped from the selectors’ radar but, coincidentally, managed to secure a spot in the 10-lakh retainer category.
There are no changes in Grade A, with top all-rounder Deepti Sharma earning the maximum salary of INR 50 lakhs along with captain and vice-captain Harmanpreet Kaur and Smriti Mandhana.
Rajeshwari Gayakwad, a left-arm spinner from Grade B, has completely disappeared from the list after losing the selectors’ attention in recent years. Gayakwad hasn’t participated in a white-ball match for India since September 2023, but he did play in the one-time Test match against South Africa in Chennai. Renuka Thakur, Richa Ghosh, Jemimah Rodrigues, and Shafali Verma—who hasn’t represented India since the T20 World Cup 2024—are the only four names left in the INR 30-lakh category.
Pooja Vastrakar kept her Grace C contract despite being injured since the T20 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates.
