{"id":8873,"date":"2025-03-29T21:57:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T16:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=582538"},"modified":"2025-03-29T21:57:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T16:27:54","slug":"bcci-defers-decision-on-central-contracts-no-meeting-held-in-guwahati-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/bcci-defers-decision-on-central-contracts-no-meeting-held-in-guwahati-on-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"BCCI defers decision on central contracts; no meeting held in Guwahati on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"167\" data-end=\"658\">Contrary to widespread media reports, the <strong data-start=\"209\" data-end=\"257\">Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)<\/strong> did not hold its scheduled high-level meeting on <strong data-start=\"307\" data-end=\"329\">Saturday, March 30<\/strong>, to finalize the <strong data-start=\"347\" data-end=\"394\">central contracts for the Indian men\u2019s team<\/strong>. According to a top BCCI source, <strong data-start=\"428\" data-end=\"467\">\u201cAll decisions have been deferred,\u201d<\/strong> confirming that no formal meeting took place between <strong data-start=\"521\" data-end=\"552\">chief selector Ajit Agarkar<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"554\" data-end=\"583\">head coach Gautam Gambhir<\/strong>, and <strong data-start=\"589\" data-end=\"622\">BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia<\/strong> in Guwahati as previously believed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"660\" data-end=\"980\">While discussions around <strong data-start=\"685\" data-end=\"704\">player gradings<\/strong> and the <strong data-start=\"713\" data-end=\"752\">tenure of the Indian coaching staff<\/strong> were expected, no concrete steps have been taken as of now. Interestingly, the BCCI had already announced the <strong data-start=\"863\" data-end=\"894\">2024\u201325 player retainership<\/strong> last week, raising speculation about minor revisions rather than a complete overhaul.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"982\" data-end=\"1245\">Gambhir, recently back from an overseas holiday, was reportedly in Delhi on Saturday, while no travel activity was confirmed for Ajit Agarkar to Guwahati. Although selectors have been present in Assam for IPL scouting, no official selection meeting was conducted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1247\" data-end=\"1624\">Expected changes include the <strong data-start=\"1276\" data-end=\"1302\">return of Shreyas Iyer<\/strong> to the central contracts after serving a domestic duty-related exclusion and the <strong data-start=\"1384\" data-end=\"1415\">exit of Ravichandran Ashwin<\/strong>, who retired from international cricket. <strong data-start=\"1457\" data-end=\"1480\">Varun Chakaravarthy<\/strong>, after playing <strong data-start=\"1496\" data-end=\"1519\">4 ODIs and 12 T20Is<\/strong> over the past year, is eligible for a <strong data-start=\"1558\" data-end=\"1578\">Grade C contract<\/strong> based on BCCI\u2019s automatic inclusion criteria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1626\" data-end=\"1817\">The Grade C category, which saw <strong data-start=\"1658\" data-end=\"1672\">15 players<\/strong> last season, may undergo minor reshuffling, while the top brackets\u2014<strong data-start=\"1740\" data-end=\"1776\">A+ (4 players), A (6), and B (5)<\/strong>\u2014are expected to remain mostly unchanged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1819\" data-end=\"1960\">A formal review of the <strong data-start=\"1842\" data-end=\"1874\">coaching staff\u2019s performance<\/strong> is also on the cards and will be conducted once the postponed meeting is rescheduled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contrary to widespread media reports, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) did not hold its scheduled high-level\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":27714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3546],"class_list":["post-8873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-bcci"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}