BCCI sprung major surprises in the new contract system by removing former India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and senior off-spinner R Ashwin from the top-bracket while Mohammed Shami found himself out of the contract owing to the allegations of domestic violence and adultery by his wife. Here's all you need to know about BCCI's new contract system

* The BCCI announced new contract system and compensation structure for Indian cricket with 26 players in senior men's list.

* The annual contracts are for the period from October 2017 to September 2018.

* Former India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and senior off-spinner R Ashwin are relegated from the top-paid bracket with the BCCI introducing a new A+ category in the central contracts.

* After allegations of domestic violence and adultery by his wife, paceman Mohammed Shami 's name has been withheld by the governing body.

* The new A+ category have only five players including skipper Virat Kohli.

* Dhoni and Ashwin have been bracketed in the second tier - A category.

* The other prominent omissions from the list are veteran Yuvraj Singh and young Rishabh Pant while Suresh Raina makes a comeback.

A+ category (Rs 7 crore each): Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Jasprit Bumrah.

A category (Rs 5 crore each): MS Dhoni , Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Murali Vijay, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane and Wridhhiman Saha.

B category (Rs 3 crore each): KL Rahul, Umesh Yadav, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Hardik Pandya, Ishant Sharma and Dinesh Karthik.

C category (Rs 1 crore each): Kedar Jadhav, Manish Pandey, Axar Patel, Karun Nair, Suresh Raina, Parthiv Patel and Jayant Yadav.

* 19 cricketers are included in the list for senior women players

Grade A (Rs 50 lakh each): Mithali Raj, Jhulan Goswami, Harmanpreet Kaur and Smriti Mandhana

Grade B (Rs 30 lakh each): Poonam Yadav, Veda Krishnamurthy, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Ekta Bisht, Shikha Pandey and Deepti Sharma

Grade C (Rs 10 lakh each): Mansi Joshi, Anuja Patil, Mona Meshram, Nuzhat Parveen, Sushma Verma, Punam Raut, Jemimah Rodrigues, Pooja Vastrakar and Taniya Bhatia

