Cricket-Nehra rewarded with central contract from Indian board

MUMBAI, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Indian medium pacer Ashish Nehra has been rewarded for his successful return to the national team with a central contact for the 2009-2010 season.

Nehra was given a grade B contract worth around $86,580 for the period Oct. 1, 2009 to Sept 30, 2010, the Indian cricket board said in a statement on Wednesday.

Grade A (approx $129,870) - Sachin Tendulkar, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag, Rahul Dravid, Vangipurappu Laxman, Yuvraj Singh, Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh.

Grade B (approx $86,580) - Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Munaf Patel, Rudra Pratap Singh, Ishant Sharma, Praveen Kumar, Ashish Nehra.

Grade C (approx 54,112) - Subramaniam Badrinath, Wasim Jaffer, Yusuf Pathan, Pragyan Ojha, Shanthakumaran Sreesanth, Dinesh Karthik, Amit Mishra, Irfan Pathan.

Grade D (approx 32,467) - Piyush Chawla, Ravindra Jadeja, Robin Uthappa, Parthiv Patel, Cheteshwar Pujara, Mohammad Kaif, Virat Kohli, Ashok Dinda, Wriddhiman Saha, Murali Vijay, Ravichandran Ashwin, Shikhar Dhawan, Sudeep Tyagi, Dhawal Kulkarni, Abhishek Nayar, Ajinkya Rahane, Manoj Tiwary.

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