PKL 11: Pardeep Narwal and Pawan Sehrawat released, list of all retained players

The different franchises have retained a total of 22 Elite Players.

On Tuesday, the Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) announced the ‘Elite Retained Players’, ‘Retained Young Players’ and ‘Existing New Young Players’ for Season 11. Each franchisor has retained a strong core group of players and is looking to build stronger units in the Pro Kabaddi League Season 11 (PKL 11) Player Auction.

Dabang Delhi K.C. have retained their raider duo of Ashu Malik and Naveen Kumar. Meanwhile, the Most Valuable Player award winner in Season 10 – Aslam Inamdar has been retained by Puneri Paltan. Furthermore, the Jaipur Pink Panthers have retained their star raider Arjun Deshwal.

A total of 88 players were retained across three categories with 22 from the Elite Retained Players (ERP) category, 26 in the Retained Young Players (RYP) category and 40 in the Existing New Young Players (ENYP). The non-retained players, which include star players such as Pawan Sehrawat, Pardeep Narwal, Maninder Singh, Fazel Atrachali and Mohammadreza Shadloui Chiyaneh will go under the hammer at the PKL 11 Player Auction from 15th-16th August 2024 in Mumbai.

The Domestic and Overseas players will be divided into four categories at the PKL 11 Player Auction: Category A, B, C and D. The players will be further sub-divided as ‘All-Rounders’, ‘Defenders’ and ‘Raiders’ within each category. The base prices for each of the categories are Category A – INR 30 Lakh, Category B – INR 20 Lakh, Category C – INR 13 Lakh, Category D – INR 9 Lakh. The Season 11 Player Pool will consist of 500+ including the 24 players from the two finalist teams of the Khelo India University Games 2024. The total Salary Purse available to each franchise for its squad is INR 5 crore.

The list of “Elite Retained Players” for PKL 11 is appended below:

TEAM	PLAYER 1	PLAYER 2	PLAYER 3	PLAYER 4	PLAYER 5	PLAYER 6
Bengal Warriors	Vishwas S	Nitin Kumar	_	_	_	_
Bengaluru Bulls	Ponparthiban Subramanian	Sushil	Rohit Kumar	_	_	_
Dabang Delhi K.C.	Ashu Malik	Vikrant	Naveen Kumar	_	_	_
Gujarat Giants	Balaji D	Jitender Yadav	_	_	_	_
Haryana Steelers	Rahul Sethpal	Ghanshyam Roka Magar	_	_	_	_
Jaipur Pink Panthers	Arjun Deshwal	Reza Mirbagheri	_	_	_	_
Patna Pirates	Ankit	Sandeep Kumar	_	_	_	_
Puneri Paltan	Abinesh Nadarajan	Gaurav Khatri	_	_	_	_
Tamil Thalaivas	_	_	_	_	_	_
Telugu Titans	Shankar Bhimraj Gadai	Ajit Pandurang Pawar	_	_	_	_
U Mumba	Amirmohammad Zafardanesh	Rinku	_	_	_	_
UP Yoddhas	_	_	_	_	_	_

The list of “Retained Young Players” for PKL 11 is appended below:

TEAM	PLAYER 1	PLAYER 2	PLAYER 3	PLAYER 4	PLAYER 5	PLAYER 6	PLAYER 7
Bengal Warriors	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
Bengaluru Bulls	Saurabh Nandal	_	_	_	_	_	_
Dabang Delhi K.C.	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
Gujarat Giants	Parteek Dahiya	Rakesh	_	_	_	_	_
Haryana Steelers	Jaideep	Mohit	Vinay	_	_	_	_
Jaipur Pink Panthers	Ankush	Abhishek KS	_	_	_	_	_
Patna Pirates	Manish	_	_	_	_	_	_
Puneri Paltan	Aditya Tushar Shinde	Akash Santosh Shinde	Mohit Goyat	Aslam Mustafa Inamdar	Pankaj Mohite	Sanket Sawant	_
Tamil Thalaivas	Narender	Sahil	Mohit	Aashish	Sagar	Himanshu	M. Abishek
Telugu Titans	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
U Mumba	Shivam	_	_	_	_	_	_
UP Yoddhas	Sumit	Surender Gill	Ashu Singh	_	_	_	_

The list of “Existing New Young Players” for PKL 11 is appended below:

TEAM	PLAYER 1	PLAYER 2	PLAYER 3	PLAYER 4	PLAYER 5	PLAYER 6
Bengal Warriors	Shreyas Umbardand	Aditya S. Shinde	Dipak Arjun Shinde	Maharudra Garje	_	_
Bengaluru Bulls	Aditya Shankar Powar	Akshit	Arulnanthababu	Parteek	_	_
Dabang Delhi K.C.	Ashish	Himmat Antil	Manu	Yogesh	_	_
Gujarat Giants	Nitin	_	_	_	_	_
Haryana Steelers	Jaya Soorya NS	Hardeep	Shivam Anil Patare	Vishal S. Tate	_	_
Jaipur Pink Panthers	Abhijeet Malik	_	_	_	_	_
Patna Pirates	Abinand Subhash	Kunal Mehta	Sudhakar M	_	_	_
Puneri Paltan	Dadaso Shivaji Pujari	Nitin	Tushar Dattaray Adhavade	Vaibhav Balasaheb Kamble	_	_
Tamil Thalaivas	Nitesh Kumar	Nitin Singh	Ronak	Vishal Chahal	_	_
Telugu Titans	Ankit	Omkar Narayan Patil	Praful Sudam Zaware	Sanjeevi S	_	_
U Mumba

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