Pro Kabaddi League Announces Player Retentions Ahead Of Season 12 Auction
Top players retained by their respective teams include Sunil Kumar and Amirmohammad Zafardanesh (U Mumba), Jaideep Dahiya (Haryana Steelers), Surender Gill (UP Yoddhas), and the Puneri Paltan duo of Aslam Inamdar and Mohit Goyat.
A total of 83 players have been retained across three categories: 25 in the Elite Retained Players (ERP) category, 23 in the Retained Young Players (RYP) category, and 35 in the New Young Players (NYP) category.
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More than 500 players, including notable Indian stars such as Pawan Sehrawat, Arjun Deshwal, Ashu Malik and PKL 11's top raider Devank Dalal, are set to go under the hammer. Iranian powerhouses Fazel Atrachali and Mohammadreza Shadloui as well as PKL veterans Maninder Singh and Pardeep Narwal will also enter the PKL 12 auction.
Star raider Naveen Kumar will go under the hammer for the first time. The PKL 8 winner will enter the auction having scored 1102 Raid Points for Dabang Delhi K.C. across six seasons. He will be the first player in the history of the league to have 1000+ points for a single team before entering a PKL auction.
For the auction, both domestic and overseas players will be divided into four categories: A, B, C, and D.
Within each category, players will be further classified as 'All-Rounders', 'Defenders', and 'Raiders'. The base prices for each category are:
Category A: INR 30 Lakh
Category B: INR 20 Lakh
Category C: INR 13 Lakh
Category D: INR 9 Lakh
Each franchise will have a total salary purse of INR 5 Crore available for its squad.
List of retained players Bengal Warriorz
ERP - Vishwas S; NYP - Yash Malik, Manjeet, Deep Kumar, Sushil Kambrekar Bengaluru Bulls
NYP - Chandranaik M, Lucky Kumar, Manjeet, Pankaj Dabang Delhi K.C.
NYP - Sandeep, Mohit Gujarat Giants
ERP - Himanshu Singh, Himanshu; RYP - Parteek Dahiya, Rakesh Haryana Steelers
ERP - Rahul Sethpal, Vinay; RYP - Shivam Anil Patare, Jaideep, Jaya Soorya NS, Vishal S. Tate; NYP - Sahil, Manikandan N, Vikas Ramadas Jadhav Jaipur Pink Panthers
ERP - Reza Mirbagheri; RYP - Abhishek KS; NYP - Ronak Singh, Nitin Kumar, Sombir, Ritik Sharma Patna Pirates
ERP - Hamid Mirzaei Nader, Thiyagarajan Yuvaraj; RYP - Sudhakar M; NYP - Ayan, Navdeep, Deepak, Sahil Patil Puneri Paltan
ERP - Abinesh Nadarajan, Gaurav Khatri, Pankaj Mohite; RYP - Aslam Mustafa Inamdar, Mohit Goyat, Dadaso Shivaji Pujari, Aditya Tushar Shinde Tamil Thailavas
ERP - Moein Shafaghi, Himanshu, Sagar; RYP - Nitesh Kumar, Narender, Ronak, Vishal Chahal, Aashish; NYP - Anuj Kaluram Gawade, Dhiraj Ravindra Bailmare Telugu Titans
ERP - Shankar Bhimraj Gadai, Ajit Pandurang Pawar; RYP - Ankit, Praful Sudam Zaware; NYP - Sagar, Chetan Sahu, Nitin, Rohit U Mumba
ERP - Sunil Kumar, Rohit, Amir Mohammad Zafardanesh, Satish Kannan; RYP - Mukilan Shanmugam; NYP - Ajit Chouhan, Deepak Kundu, Lokesh Ghosliya, Sunny UP Yoddhas
ERP - Sumit, Bhavani Rajput, Sahul Kumar, Surender Gill, Ashu Singh; RYP - Hitesh, Gagana Gowda HR, Shivam Chaudhary; NYP - Jayesh Vikas Mahajan, Gangaram, Sachin, Keshav Kumar
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