Taskin Ahmed is the most effective player in the A-plus category within the BCB's men's principal contracts listing for 2025. The Bangladesh board has reverted to categorising players' month-to-month salaries based totally on grades, after some years of giving out contracts primarily based on which format(s) the participant featured in. Taskin gets BDT 1 million (USD 8200 approx.) in step with month this year, after being within the white-ball-best category final 12 months. Cricket has discovered that the BCB changed its income coverage from layout-based totally to grade-primarily based for the advantage of its Test experts. In the preceding policy, the board discovered it difficult to correctly reward Test cricketers. The BCB's cricket operations chairman Najmul Abedeen Fahim stated after a current board meeting that the relevant contracts could look to reward Test professionals. Bangladesh captain Najmul Hossain Shanto is among four cricketers in Grade A, for which the profits can be BDT 800,000 (USD 6,600 approx.) in keeping with month. It is a step down for a Bangladesh captain to be in the 2nd category; generally the captain gets the top class of contract under any policy. Grade A also protected Mushfiqur Rahim despite the fact that his retirement from ODIs way that he's going to pass to Grade B wherein the revenue is BDT 600,000 (USD 4,900 approx.) per month. Speedster Nahid Rana is also in category B after his brilliant 2024. He is among 4 novices to get a agreement, the others being Jaker Ali, Tanzid Hasan and Rishad Hossain, who are all positioned in Grade C with a profits of BDT 400,000 (USD three,300 approx.) according to month. The BCB stated in its press launch that Mahmudullah - who grew to become 39 remaining month - requested that the board now not don't forget him within the critical contracts listing after February 2025. Soumya Sarkar and Shadman Islam return to the BCB's important contracts for the primary time due to the fact that 2021 and 2022 respectively. Shakib Al Hasan, Zakir Hasan, Mahmudul Hasan Joy, Naeem Hasan and Nurul Hasan had contracts closing 12 months however aren't at the listing this time.