Mohit Chhillar most expensive buy at Pro Kabaddi League auction

Mohit Chhillar most expensive buy at Pro Kabaddi League auction

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Written by: Arun S Kaimal

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Former U Mumba defender Mohit Chhillar received the highest bid in the Pro Kabaddi League auction, after Bengaluru Bulls snapped him up for Rs. 53 lakh for the 4th edition of the tournament, on Friday. Sandeep Narwal bagged the second highest price-tag joining Telugu Titans for Rs. 45.5 lakh.

Going into the auction each of the eight teams were allowed to retain two players each from their squad in the last edition. Each franchise was given Rs.2 crore each to spend at the auction after deducting the money they had spent on the retained players.

Retained Players:

Bengal Warriors: Girish Maruti Ernak, Nilesh Shinde

Bengaluru Bulls: Pawan Kumar, Ashish Sangwan

Dabang Delhi: Kashilling Adake, Selvamani K

Jaipur Pink Panthers: Rajesh Narwal, Jasvir Singh

Patna Pirates: Pradeep Narwal, Rajesh Mondal

Puneri Paltan: Manjeet Chillar, Deepak Niwas Hooda

Telugu Titans: Rahul Chaudhari, Sukesh Hegde

U Mumba: Anup Kumar, Rishank Devadiga

22-year-old Mohit Chhillar proved to be the costliest buy in the auction after last year’s bottom placed team Bengaluru Bulls bought him for Rs.53 lakh. Sandeep Narwal, who played for Champions Patna Pirates in the last edition, was bought by Telugu Titans for Rs 45.5 lakh, while U Mumba bought back Jeeva Kumar for Rs 40 lakh.

Season 4 of the Pro Kabbadi League is scheduled to start on June 25, less than four months after the third season ended in March.

Full Squads:

Bengal Warriors: Girish Maruti Ernak, Nilesh Shinde, Simon Kibura, Jang Kun Lee, Amit Singh Chillar, Nitin Madane, Ravi Dalal, Shrikant Jadhav, Surjeet Narwal, Vishal Mane, Mahendra Rajput, Chaminda RSM, C Arun, Ravi Kumar, Ravindra Kumavat, Suyog Rajapkar, Yogesh Subhash Sawant, Sushil Vijay Bhosle

Bengaluru Bulls: Pawan Kumar, Ashish Sangwan, Manoj Kumar, Mohit Chhillar, Surender Nada, Jeeva Gopal, Sinotharan Kanesharajah, Sanjay Shrestha, Pawan Kumar, Deepak Kumar Dahiya, Amit Rathi, Yogesh Hooda, Rohit Baliyan, Rahul Kumar, Ravinder Kumar, Nicholas George Mottram, Sumit Singh, Ajay Singh, Harish Naik

Dabang Delhi: Kashilling Adake, Selvamani K, Bhupender Singh, Ram Kumar Sah, Prashant Chavan, D. Gopu, Prashant Kumar Rai, D. Suresh Kumar, Sachin Shingade, Deepak Narwal, Meraj Sheykh, Umesh Mhatre, Hadi Tajik, Phonchoo Tin, Sanket Chavan, Vikash Khandola, Manjeet

Jaipur Pink Panthers: Rajesh Narwal, Jasvir Singh, Masayuki Shimokawa, Wei Yang, Mahipal Narwal, Rohit Rana, Shabeer Bappu, Shrikant Tewthia, Ran Singh, Amit Hooda, Tushar Patil, Lo Chia Wei, Parvesh Bhainswal, Amit Nagar, Parveen Narwal

Patna Pirates: Pradeep Narwal, Rajesh Mondal, Dharmaraj Cheralathan, Mahesh Goud, Bajirao Hodage, Deepak Dhull, Vijin Thangadurai, Sunny, Vinoth Paulyas, Sanjay Kumar, Hadi Oshtorak, Kuldeep Singh, Fazel Atrachali, Abolfazel Maghsodlo, Sunil Kumar

Puneri Paltan: Manjeet Chillar, Deepak Niwas Hooda, I Ketut Ariana, Ajay Thakur, Gurpreet Singh, Somvir Shekhar, Parmod Narwal, Ravinder Pahal, Preetam Chhillar, Sonu Narwal, Joginder Narwal, Jay Bahadur Bohara, Anil Shriram Nimbolkar, Khomsan Thongkham, Virender Chhillar, Akshay Jadhav, Dalbir

Telugu Titans: Rahul Chaudhari, Sukesh Hegde, Jasmer Singh Gulia, Rupesh Tomar, Sandeep Narwal, Vinoth Kumar, Mohammad Maghsoudlou, Vinod Kumar, K. Prapanjan, Shashank Wankhede, Sandeep Dhull, Nilesh Salunke, Akhlaq Hussain, Muhammad Rizwan, Sagar B. Krishna, Vishal Bharadwaj, Sombir, Athul M S

U Mumba: Anup Kumar, Rishank Devadiga, Rakesh Kumar, Gurvinder Singh, Jeeva Kumar, Md. Aruduzzaman Munshi, Suresu Kumar, Vikas Kale, Sunil Kumar, Manoj Dhull, Surendra Singh, Md. Zakir Hossain, Md. Tuhin Tarafder, Sourav V, Nitin Kumar

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