Left-seamer Ashish Nehra has been awarded a central contract by the Board of Control for Cricket in India

Nehra, who returned to India's one-day team for the first time since September 2005 for the series in West Indies earlier this year, has been handed a Grade B contract which carries a retainer fee of four million Indian rupees (about £52,000).

Right-arm seamer Praveen Kumar has been moved up from Grade C (2.5 million rupees, about £32,000) to Grade B.

There has been no change to the nine players in the top grade (6 million rupees, about £77,700 pounds), which includes captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman.

Mumbai's Dhawal Kulkarni, Ajinkya Rahane and Abhishek Nayar have been awarded Grade D (1.5 million rupees, £19,400) contracts along with Manoj Tiwary.

Grade A: Sachin Tendulkar, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman, Yuvraj Singh, Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh.

Grade B: Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Munaf Patel, RP Singh, Ishant Sharma, Praveen Kumar, Ashish Nehra.

Grade C: S Badrinath, Wasim Jaffer, Yusuf Pathan, Pragyan Ojha, Sreesanth, Dinesh Karthik, Amit Mishra.

Grade D: Piyush Chawla, Ravindra Jadeja, Robin Uthappa, Parthiv Patel, Cheteshwar Pujara, Mohammad Kaif, Virat Kohli, Ashok Dinda, Wriddhiman Saha, M Vijay, R Ashwin, Shikhar Dhawan, Sudeep Tyagi, Dhawal Kulkarni, Abhishek Nayar, Ajinkya Rahane, Manoj Tiwary.