BCCI official said- Ishan-Shreyas can get the central contract again

Where 11 young players including Yashasvi Jaiswal have been included for the first time in the annual central contract of the Board of Control for Cricket in India. At the same time, the exclusion of Ishan Kishan and Shreyas Iyer from the central contract remains a topic of discussion. Ishan Kishan and Shreyas Iyer can again get the central contract of the Board of Control for Cricket in India. BCCI officials said that after the IPL, both of these players can get central contracts again.

BCCI has also dropped Ishan Kishan and Shreyas Iyer from the annual central contract due to not playing domestic cricket after being dropped from the Indian Test team and preparing for the IPL. Shreyas Iyer was included in Grade B and Ishan Kishan was included in Grade C, but now both names have been removed from the new central contract for 2023-24.

According to the report of ESPNcricinfo, Ishan Kishan was training with his Mumbai Indians team captain Hardik Pandya for the IPL after staying away from the Test team and Ranji Trophy. At the same time, despite being fit, Shreyas Iyer stayed away from the Test team and did not even play in the Ranji Trophy for Mumbai. However, now he is ready to play in the semi-finals of the Ranji Trophy. Due to this mistake of both of them, the central contract has been lost.

A BCCI official said that the selectors do not doubt the ability of these two, but in NCA, if you are fit and are not available for India's Test series, then how can you get a central contract? After IPL 2024, if both of them are selected in Team India and they can meet the demand of matches based on pro-rata (3 Tests 8 ODIs or 10 T20Is), then they can join the central contract again.