Mumbai: More than 190 players sold to 12 franchise teams with 10 Final Bid Match (FBM) cards used in the auction for the eighth league Pro Kabaddi (PKL) season, scheduled to take place in December, the committee.
Word on Wednesday.
Raider Pardeep Narwal emerged as the highest paid kabaddi player in the history of street vendors as a three-day team witnessed by a team spent 48.22 crore in total in various categories.
Narwal broke the record after he was bought with Yoddha for Rs 1.65 Crore, while Siddharth Desai was maintained by Telugu Titans through a FBM card for Rs 1.30 Crore.
Rahul Chaudhari will now play for paltan puneri.
Tamil Thalavas managed to bid for Raider Manjeet, who joined them from Paltan Paltan for Rs 92 Lakh.
Rohit Gulia, All-Rounder of category A, sold to Haryana Steelers for RS 83 Lakh, a significant jump from the price of Rs 25 lakh with Gujarat Giants in season 7.
Some other large purchases include Sachin (Patna Pirates) for RS.
84 lakh and Ranjit Chandran (Bengaluru Bulls) for 80 lakh Rs.
Stand-out of category B is the purchase of Raider Arjun Deshwal who jerks by Jaipur Pink Panthers for Rs 96 lakh.
Paleri’s puneri managed to maintain Raider Nitin Tomar by using a FBM card for Rs 61 lakh while all-rounder Sandeep Narwal flinched by Dabang Delhi KC for Rs 60 Lakh.
Franchise Delhi also bought defender Jeeva Kumar for Rs 44 Lakh.
Veteran Raider Ajay Thakur also found himself a new house with Dabang Delhi KC who bought the former Indian captain for Rs 46 lakh.
More than 22 players abroad are sold on the second day.
Iran’s all-rounder Mohammadreza Shadloui Chiyaneh is the most expensive signing of foreigners because the three-time champion Patna Pirates bought it for RS 31 Lakh.
Patna Pirates also uses one of their two FBM cards to defend the Republic of Korea Jang Kun Lee for Rs 20.5 lakh.
The Iranians were in high demand because defending champions Bengal Warriors bought Abozar Mohajermighani defender for Rs 30.5 lakh.
Telugu Titans acquired Japanese defender Tetsuro Abe for RS 10 lakh.
Among the category C players, Sandeep Kandola appeared as the highest bid.
He was bought for Rs 59.5 lakh by Telugu Titans.
Paltan Paltan bought Sombir for Rs 34.5 lakh while U Mumba and Jaipur Pink Panthers spent Rs 32 Lakh and Rs 20 Lakh in Rinu Narwal and Amit.
A total of 10 new young players (NYP) were taken at the auction.
Narwal said he never hoped to be the highest paid player.
“It has been memorable five seasons with Patna Pirates, and now I am looking forward to representing Yoddha,” he said.