The Board of Control for Cricket in India on Wednesday hiked the retainers and match fee payments in the annual contracts of the senior men’s national team players, following a meeting of its Committee of Administrators.

Grade A players will now be paid Rs 2 crore per annum, Grade B players will get Rs 1 crore per annum, while Grade C players will be paid Rs 50 lakh per annum – all double the amounts they were paid earlier.

Cheteshwar Pujara, Ravindra Jadeja and Murali Vijay were promoted to Grade A in their annual contracts. They join Indian skipper Virat Kohli, former captain MS Dhoni, vice captain Ajinkya Rahane and ace spinner R Ashwin in the elite group.

The match fee enhancement for the men will be effective from October 1, 2016, onwards. Players will also receive Rs 15 lakh per Test, Rs 6 lakh per One-Day International and Rs 3 lakh for a Twenty20 International.

Grade A

Virat Kohli, MS Dhoni, R Ashwin, Ajinkya Rahane, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ravindra Jadeja and Murali Vijay

Grade B

Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav, Wriddhiman Saha, Jasprit Bumrah and Yuvraj Singh

Grade C

Shikhar Dhawan, Ambati Rayudu, Amit Mishra, Manish Pandey, Axar Patel, Karun Nair, Hardik Pandya, Ashish Nehra, Kedar Jadhav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Parthiv Patel, Jayant Yadav, Mandeep Singh, Dhawal Kulkarni, Shardul Thakur and Rishabh Pant