BCCI announces the A+ category of umpires and Nitin Menon, a member of the ICC Elite Panel, is one of ten officials placed in the newly created category.
Four foreign umpires are also present, including Anil Chaudhary, Madangopal Jayaraman, Virender Sharma, and KN Ananthapadmanabhan.
Rohan Pandit, Nikhil Patwardhan, Sadashiv Iyer, Ulhas Gandhe and Navdeep Singh Sidhu are also part of the A+ category.
Umpires in A+ and A category are paid ₹40,000 a day for a first-class game while ₹30,000 a day are paid in the B and C category.