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PRO KABADDI LEAGUE (PKL) second season’s most valuable player Manjit Chhillar switched to Puneri Paltan from Bengaluru Bulls as the eight franchises announced their squads on Tuesday for the third edition starting in January 2016.
The league, which gives the sport of Kabaddi a distinctive contemporary Indian identity, will feature a total of 138 players across eight teams.
A total of 20 Kabaddi players have already changed teams from the second edition. Alongside Chhillar, Ajay Thakur, Rakesh Kumar, Deepak Hudda, Jasmer Singh, Surjeet Narwal, Dharmaraj Cheralathan, Wassim Sajjad, Rajaguru Subramanain have been involved in some of the biggest player movements this season.
At the same time, the teams have also retained some of the star players like Anup Kumar (U Mumba), Kashiling Adake (Dabang Delhi), Ravinder Pahal (Dabang Delhi), Rahul Chaudhari (Telugu Titans), Sukesh Hegde (Telugu Titans), Jan Kun Lee (Bengal Warriors), Sandeep Narwal (Patna Pirates), Tae Deok Eom (Patna Pirates) ensuring strong squads across the eight teams.
The international draft for the third season of PKL, too has received a strong response from participating franchises, with 24 international players being signed up from 12 countries.
Following are the squad for PKL 2016:
U Mumba
Name |
Position |
Anup Kumar |
Captain Raider |
Shabeer Bapu |
Raider |
K Prapanjan |
Raider |
Anoop EV |
Raider |
Masayuki Shimokawa |
Raider |
Pawan Kumar |
Raider |
Pradeep Kumar |
Raider |
Rishank Devadiga |
Raider |
Suresu Kumar |
Raider |
Vinoth Paulyas |
Raider |
Vishal Mane |
Defender Right Cover |
Abolfazel Maghsodlo |
Defender Right Cover |
Mohit Chhillar |
Defender Right Cover |
Jeeva Gopal |
Defender Left Cover |
Jeeva Kumar |
Defender Left Cover |
Fazel Atrachali |
Defender Left Cover |
Surender Nada |
Defender Left Cover |
Bhupendra Singh |
All Rounder |
Hadi Tajik |
All Rounder |
Jawahar Vivek |
All Rounder |
Rakesh Kumar |
All Rounder |
Telugu Titans
Name |
Position |
Dilber Singh |
Raider |
Isac Antony |
Raider |
Prashant Kumar Rai |
Raider |
Rahul Chaudhari |
Raider |
Rohit Baliyan |
Raider |
Sukesh Hegde |
Raider |
Yosuke Sasaki |
Raider |
Dharmaraj Cheralathan |
Defender Left Corner |
D Gopu |
Defender Left Corner |
Kalimuthu Balamahendran |
Defender Left Corner |
Santosh B.S. |
Defender Left Corner |
Manoj Kumar |
Defender Left Cover |
Rahul Kumar |
Defender Right Cover |
Vikas Kale |
Defender Right Cover |
Wasim Sajjad |
Defender Right Corner |
Meraj Sheykh |
All Rounder |
Ravit Kumar |
All Rounder |
T. Prasad |
All Rounder |
Puneri Paltan
Name |
Position |
Manjeet Chhiller |
All Rounder |
Ajay Thakur |
Raider |
David Mosambayi |
Raider |
Deepak Hooda |
Raider |
Nilesh Salunke |
Raider |
Ramkumar Selvam |
Raider |
Ravi V |
Raider |
Simon Kibura |
Raider |
Surendra Singh |
Raider |
Tushar Patil |
Raider |
Waleed Al Hasani |
Raider |
Yogesh Hooda |
Raider |
Ravi Kumar |
Defender Right Cover |
Somvir Shekhar |
Defender Right Cover |
Khomsan Thongkham |
Defender Right Cover |
Manoj Dhull |
Defender Right Cover |
Prashant Chavan |
Defender Right Cover |
Ravindra Kumar |
Defender Right Cover |
Sachin Khambe |
Defender Right Cover |
Sachin Shingade |
Defender Left Cover |
Sachin V |
Defender Left Cover |
Sandeep Malik |
Defender |
Jasmer Singh Gulia |
All Rounder |
Sanjay Kumar |
All Rounder |
Patna Pirate
Name |
Position |
Sandeep Narwal |
All Rounder |
Abhinandan Kumar |
Raider |
Bhabesh Kumar |
Raider |
Deepak Narwal |
Raider |
Gurvinder Singh |
Raider |
Hadi Oshtorak |
Raider |
Mahipal Narwal |
Raider |
Rajesh Mondal |
Raider |
Ravi Dalal |
Raider |
Sunil Jaipal |
Raider |
Vijay Malik |
Raider |
D. Suresh kumar |
Defender Right Cover |
Manish |
Defender Right Cover |
Amit Hooda |
Defender Right Cover |
Ram Kumar Sah |
Defender Left Cover |
Vinod Kumar |
Defender Left Cover |
Nasir Ali |
Defender Left Cover |
Sandeep |
Defender Left Cover |
Sunil Kumar |
Defender Left Cover |
Tae Deok Eom |
All Rounder |
Jaipur Pink Panther
Name |
Position |
Navneet Gautam |
Captain Defender Left Corner |
Gangadhari Mallesh |
Raider |
Jasvir Singh |
Raider |
Rajesh Narwal |
Raider |
Rohit Kumar Prajapat |
Raider |
Sonu Narwal |
Raider |
Raju Lal Choudhary |
Defender Right Corner |
Rohit Rana |
Defender Left Corner |
C. Arun |
Defender Left Corner |
Jagdeesha K.K. |
Defender |
Anil Patil |
All Rounder |
Hwangi Ahn |
All Rounder |
Kuldeep Singh |
All Rounder |
Mohammad Maghsoudlou |
All Rounder |
Ran Singh |
All Rounder |
Samarjeet Singh |
All Rounder |
Sanjay Shrestha |
All Rounder |
Satish Kumar |
All Rounder |
Dabang Delhi
Name |
Position |
Ravindra Pahal |
Defender Right Corner |
Anil Nimbolkar |
Raider |
Jay Bohara |
Raider |
Kashilinga Adake |
Raider |
Mukesh Jaglan |
Raider |
Pravin Niwale |
Raider |
Rohit Chaudhary |
Raider |
Selvamani K |
Raider |
Wazir Singh |
Raider |
Navjot Singh |
Defender Right Cover |
Parveen Malik |
Defender Right Cover |
Rajguru S |
Defender Right Cover |
Gnansekran M |
Defender Right Cover |
GS Manikandan |
Defender Left Cover |
Rakesh SIngh Kumar |
Defender Left Cover |
Amit Chhillar |
Defender Left Cover |
Kuldeep Singh |
Defender Left Cover |
Sandeep Dhull |
Defender Left Cover |
Bengaluru Bulls
Name |
Position |
Surjeet Narwal |
Captain Raider |
Amit Rathi |
Raider |
Deepak Dahiya |
Raider |
Sinotharan Kanesharaja |
Raider |
Vaibhav Kale |
Raider |
Vinoth Kumar |
Raider |
Ashish Sanghwan |
Defender Right Cover |
I Ketut Ariana |
Defender Right Cover |
Satish Kumar |
Defender Right Cover |
Ramavath Pandu |
Defender Right Cover |
Vijender Singh |
Defender Left Cover |
Michal Spiczko |
Defender Left Cover |
Deepak Kumar |
All Rounder |
Pramod Narwal |
All Rounder |
Preetam Chhillar |
All Rounder |
Shashank Wankhade |
All Rounder |
Shrikhant Tewthia |
All Rounder |
Bengal Warriors
Name |
Position |
Nilesh Shinde |
Defender Right Corner |
Felix Opana |
Raider |
Jang Kun Lee |
Raider |
Kedar Lal |
Raider |
Mahendra Rajput |
Raider |
Mahesh Goud |
Raider |
Nitin Madane |
Raider |
Shrikant Jadhav |
Raider |
Umesh Mhatre |
Raider |
Vineet Sharma |
Raider |
Vijin Thangadurai |
Defender Right Cover |
Nitin More |
Defender Right & Left Cover |
Bajirao Hodage |
Defender Left Cover |
Chaminda RSM |
Defender Left Cover |
Deepak Dhull |
Defender Left Cover |
Shyam Kumar Sah |
Defender Left Cover |
Deepak Kumar |
Defender Left Cover |
Girish Ernak |
Defender Left Cover |
Dinesh Kumar |
All Rounder |
Krushna Madane |
All Rounder |
Narendra Kumar |
All Rounder |