Updated 11 October 2023 at 22:32 IST
PKL 2023 Auction: List of retained and sold and al you need to know?
A look at the full squad, retained players and everything you need to know about the Pro Kabaddi League 2023 auction held in Mumbai on October 8 and 9.
A glimpse of the PKL 2023 auction venue | Image:
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The auction for the 2023 edition of the Pro Kabaddi League was held from October 8 to 9, 2023 in Mumbai. More than 500 players went under the hammer in the auction for the biggest Kabaddi league in the world. Big names such as Pawan Sehrawat, Fazel Atrachali and Vikash Kandola were picked by different teams for immensely huge prices.
3 things you need to know
- Jaipur Pink Panthers are the current champions of the PKL
- Patna Pirates are the most successful team in the Pro Kabaddi League
- The PKL 2023 will begin on December 2 and will be played between 12 teams across 12 different cities
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PKL 2023 Auction: All you need to know
| Number | Team | Retained Players | Bought Players |
| 1 | Jaipur Pink Panthers | Vaibhav Bhausaheb Garje, R Guhan, Suyon Baban Gaikar, Parshant Kumar | Maninder Singh, Nitin Rawal, Shubham Shinde, Shrikant Jadhav, Chai-Ming Chang, Aslam Thambi, Bhoir Akshay Bharat, Akshay Kumar, Akshay Bodake, Nitin Kumar, Vishwas S |
| 2 | U Mumba | Surinder Singh, Jai Bhagwan, Rinku, Heidarali Ekrami, Shivam, Shivansh Thakur, Pranay Vinay Rane, Rupesh, Sachin | Girish Maruti Ernak, Mahendra Singh, Guman Singh, Amirmohammad Zafardanesh, Alireza Mirzaeian, Rohit Yadav, Kunal, Visvanath V, Saurav Parthe |
| 3 | Patna Pirates | Sachin, Neeraj Kumar, Manish, Thiyagarajan Yuvaraj, Naveen Sharma, Ranjit Venkatramana Naik, Anuj Kumar | Manjeet, Zheng-Wei Chen, Daniel Odhiambo, Rohit, Sajin Chandrasekar, Krishan, Ankit, Deepak Kumar, Mahendra Choudhary, Sandeep Kumar, Rakesh Narwal, Sanjay |
| 4 | Dabang Delhi KC | Naveen Kumar, Vijay, Manjeet, Ashish Narwal, Suraj Panwar | Vishal Bhardwaj, Sunil, Ashu Malik, Meetu, Nitin Chandel, Balasaheb Shahaji Jadhav, Akash Prasher, Vikrant, Felix Li, Yuvraj Pandeya, Mohit |
| 5 | Gujarat Giants | Manuj, Sonu, Rakesh, Rohan Singh, Parteek Dahiya | Fazel Atrachali, Rohit Gulia, Mohammad Esmaeil Nabibakhsh, Arkam Shaikh, Sombir, Vikas Jaglan, Sourav Gulia, Deepak Rajender Singh, Ravi Kumar, More GB, Jitendar Yadav, Nitesh, Jagdeep, Balaji D |
| 6 | Bengal Warriors | Vaibhav Bhausaheb Garje, R Guhan, Suyon Baban Gaikar, Parshant Kumar | Maninder Singh, Nitin Rawal, Shubham Shinde, Shrikant Jadhav, Chai-Ming Chang, Aslam Thambi, Bhoir Akshay Bharat, Akshay Kumar, Akshay Bodake, Nitin Kumar, Vishwas S |
| 7 | Tamil Thalaivas | Ajinkya Pawar, Sagar, Himanshu, M Abhishek, Sahil, Mohit, Aashish, Narender, Himanshu, Jatin | Himanshu Singh, Selvamani K, Ritik, Masanmutu Lakshnanan, Satish Kanan, Amirhossein Bastami, Mohammadreza Kaboudrahangi |
| 8 | UP Yoddha | Pardeep Narwal, Nitesh Kumar, Sumit, Ashu Singh, Surender Gill, Anil Kumar, Mahipal | Vijay Malik, Samuel Wafala, Helvic Wanjala, Harendra Kumar, Gulveer Singh, Gurdeep, Kiran Laxman Magar, Nitin Panwar |
| 9 | Puneri Paltan | Abhinesh Nadarajan, Gaurav Khatri, Sanket Sawant, Pankaj Mohite, Aslam Inamdar, Mohit Goyat, Akash Shinde, Badal Singh, Aditya Shinde | Mohammadreza Shadloui Chiyanneh, Vahid Rezaeimehr, Ahmed Mustafa Enamdar, Ishwar, Hardeep |
| 10 | Telugu Titans | Parvesh Bhainswal, Rajnish, Mohit, Nitin, Vijay | Pawan Sehrawat, Hamid Mirzaei Nader, Milad Jabbari, Shankar Bhimraj Gadai, Omkar R. More, Gaurav Dahiya, Mohit, Ajit Pandurang Pawar, Robin Chaudhary |
| 11 | Bengaluru Bulls | Neeraj Narwal, Bharat, Saurabh Nandal, Yash Hooda | Vishal, Vikash Khandola, Ran Singh, Md. Liton Ali, Piotr Pamulak, Ponparthiban Subramanian, Sunder, Surjeet Singh, Abhishek Singh, Banty, Monu, Ankit, Sushil, Rakshit, Rohit Kumar |
| 12 | Haryana Steelers | K Prapanjan, Vinay, Jaideep, Mohit, Naveen, Monu, Harsh, Sunny | Siddharth Desai, Chandran Ranjit, Hasan Balbool, Ghanshyam Magar, Rahul Sethpal, Himanshu Chaudhary, Ravindra Chauhan, Ashish, Mohit |
PKL 2023 Auction: Top 5 bids
A look at the top five bids of the Pro Kabaddi League 2023 auction:
- Pawan Sehrawat (Telugu Titans): INR 2.60 crore
- Mohammadreza Shadloui Chiyanneh (Puneri Paltan): INR 2.35 crore
- Maninder Singh (Bengal Warriors): INR 2.12 crore
- Fazel Atrachali (Gujarat Giants): INR I.60 crore
- Sidharth Desai (Haryana Steelers): INR 1.00 crore
Published By : Pavitra Shome
Published On: 11 October 2023 at 22:32 IST