Contract Gifts

BCCI has announced the list of contracted players for the 2006-2007 season, of course with only 3 months remaining for the season to end.
The BCCI (Dilip Vengsarkar and Niranjan Shah) has come up with the graded contracts after painstakingly going through the performances of the players for the season Oct-2005 to Sept-2006 in great detail.

The test statistics for the 2005-2006 season of the middle order:

Player: VVS Laxman
Matches: 11
Runs: 589
HS: 104
Average: 36.81
100s: 2
50s: 3

Player: Sourav Ganguly
Matches: 4
Runs: 155
HS: 40
Average: 31.00
100s: 0
50s: 0

Player: Sachin Tendulkar
Matches: 9
Runs: 335
HS: 109
Average: 27.91
100s: 1
50s: 0

Based on the above statistics, BCCI decided to downgrade Laxman to Grade B, while Sourav Ganguly and Sachin Tendulkar were awarded (or rewarded) Grade A contracts.

Way to go, BCCI.