Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma will retain their Grade A+ contracts despite announcing their retirements from Test cricket on May 12 and May 7, respectively. According to BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia, as quoted by news agency ANI on Wednesday (May 14), “Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma’s grade A+ contract will continue despite their retirement from the T20Is and Tests. They are still part of the Indian cricket team, and they will get all the facilities of Grade A+,” Saikia said. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced annual player retainership for 2024-25 in April, where Kohli and Rohit were put in the Grade A+ category along with star fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah and left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja. All format Indian players are usually preferred for the Grade A+ category, but in the four players part of the Grade A+ category for the 2024-25 season, only Bumrah is a three-format player now. Rohit, Kohli and Jadeja announced their retirement from T20Is in June last year after India’s T20 World Cup 2024 title win, and on May 7, Rohit quit Test cricket, whereas Kohli bid goodbye to the five-day format of the game on May 12 via a post on Instagram. During his 14-year-long Test career, Kohli played 123 matches for Team India and scored 9230 runs with the help of 30 centuries and 31 half-centuries. The 36-year-old right-handed batter is India’s most successful Test captain (40 wins in 68 matches), and he also holds the record for scoring the most double centuries in Tests for India. Kohli created history in January 2019 by becoming the first Indian captain to win a Test series in Australia, and he also led India to a runner-up finish in the inaugural edition of the World Test Championship (WTC). Rohit, on the other hand, made his Test debut in November 2013 against the West Indies and scored a century (177) at Eden Gardens in Kolkata. He played a total of 67 matches during his 11-year-long Test career and scored 4301 runs with the help of 12 centuries and 18 fifties. Rohit led India to the WTC final in June 2023 against Australia and played his last Test against the Baggy Greens from December 26 to 30 in 2024 at Melbourne Cricket Ground.