India national cricket team

Personnel

Squad

This lists all the players who have played for India in the past 12 months and the forms in which they have played. Correct as of 31 December 2014.

Key

• C/G = Contract grade
• S/N = Shirt number

Name	Age	Batting style	Bowling style	Domestic team	Zone	C/G	Forms	S/N	Remarks
Test captain, ODI & T20I vice-captain and middle-order batsman
Virat Kohli	26	Right-handed	Right medium	Delhi	North	A	Test, ODI, T20I	18
ODI & T20I captain and wicket-keeper
Mahendra Singh Dhoni	33	Right-handed	Right medium	Jharkhand	East	A	ODI, T20I	7
Opening batsmen
Shikhar Dhawan	29	Left-handed	Off break	Delhi	North	B	Test, ODI, T20I	25
Gautam Gambhir	33	Left-handed	Leg break	Delhi	North	–	Test	5
Lokesh Rahul	22	Right-handed	Off break	Karnataka	South	C	Test
Robin Uthappa	29	Right-handed	Right medium	Karnataka	South	C	ODI	37	Occasional wicketkeeper
Murali Vijay	30	Right-handed	Off break	Tamil Nadu	South	B	Test	26
Middle-order batsmen
Kedar Jadhav	29	Right-handed	Off break	Maharashtra	West	–	ODI
Cheteshwar Pujara	27	Right-handed	Leg break	Saurashtra	West	B	Test, ODI	16
Suresh Raina	28	Left-handed	Off break	Uttar Pradesh	Central	A	ODI, T20I	3
Ajinkya Rahane	26	Right-handed	Right medium	Mumbai	West	B	Test, ODI, T20I	27	Opening batsman in ODI & T20I
Ambati Rayudu	29	Right-handed	Off break	Baroda	West	B	ODI, T20I	5
Rohit Sharma	27	Right-handed	Off break	Mumbai	West	B	Test, ODI, T20I	45	Opening batsman in ODI & T20I
Manoj Tiwary	29	Right-handed	Leg break	Bengal	East	C	ODI	9
All-rounders
Stuart Binny	30	Right-handed	Right medium	Karnataka	South	C	Test, ODI	84
Ravindra Jadeja	26	Left-handed	Slow left arm	Saurashtra	West	B	Test, ODI, T20I	8
Akshar Patel	21	Left-handed	Slow left arm	Gujarat	West	C	ODI	20
Parvez Rasool	25	Right-handed	Off break	Jammu & Kashmir	North	C	ODI	21
Karn Sharma	27	Right-handed	Leg break	Railways	North	C	Test, ODI, T20I	33
Yuvraj Singh	33	Left-handed	Slow left arm	Punjab	North	–	T20I	12
Wicket-keepers
Dinesh Karthik	29	Right-handed		Tamil Nadu	South	C	ODI	19
Wriddhiman Saha	30	Right-handed		Bengal	East	C	Test, ODI	24
Pace bowlers
Varun Aaron	25	Right-handed	Right fast	Jharkhand	East	C	Test, ODI	29
Zaheer Khan	36	Right-handed	Left fast-medium	Mumbai	West	–	Test	34
Dhawal Kulkarni	26	Right-handed	Right medium-fast	Mumbai	North	C	ODI	91
Bhuvneshwar Kumar	24	Right-handed	Right medium-fast	Uttar Pradesh	Central	A	Test, ODI, T20I	15
Mohammed Shami	24	Right-handed	Right fast-medium	Bengal	East	B	Test, ODI, T20I	11
Ishant Sharma	26	Right-handed	Right fast-medium	Delhi	North	B	Test, ODI	1
Mohit Sharma	26	Right-handed	Right medium-fast	Haryana	North	C	ODI, T20I	6
Pankaj Singh	29	Right-handed	Right medium-fast	Rajasthan	Central	C	Test
Umesh Yadav	27	Right-handed	Right fast-medium	Vidarbha	Central	B	Test, ODI	19
Spin bowlers
Ravichandran Ashwin	28	Right-handed	Off break	Tamil Nadu	South	A	Test, ODI, T20I	99
Amit Mishra	32	Right-handed	Leg break	Haryana	North	C	ODI, T20I	99

Players with a central contract who have not played for India in the past 12 months: Pragyan Ojha (Grade B), Vinay Kumar (Grade C), Sanju Samson (Grade C), Kuldeep Yadav(Grade C)

The BCCI awards central contracts to its players, its pay graded according to the importance of the player. Players' salaries are as follows:

• Grade A – 1 crore per annum ($158,000)
• Grade B – 50 lakh per annum ($79,000)
• Grade C – 2.5 million per annum ($40,000)

Coaching staff

• Team director: Ravi Shastri^[64]
• Head coach: Duncan Fletcher
• Assistant coach: Sanjay Bangar
• Bowling coach: Bharat Arun
• Fielding coach: R Sridhar