Pawan Sehrawat and Pardeep Narwal, Asian Games gold medalists, will be auctioned off, while franchises retain 88 players ahead of the Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) season 11. The teams have kept a core group of players and want to assemble better units in the next auctions on August 15 and 16. Dabang Delhi K.C. has retained raider pair Ashu Malik and Naveen Kumar.
Puneri Paltan has retained season 10’s Most Valuable Player award winner, Aslam Inamdar, while the Jaipur Pink Panthers have kept their standout raider, Arjun Deshwal.
A total of 88 players were kept in three categories: 22 Elite kept Players (ERP), 26 Retained Young Players (RYP), and 40 Existing New Young Players (ENYP). Maninder Singh, Fazel Atrachali, and Mohammadreza Shadloui Chiyaneh are among the players who were not retained.
For the auction, domestic and international players will be separated into four groups: A, B, C, and D. Within each category, players will be split into ‘All-Rounders’, ‘Defenders’, and ‘Raiders’.
The basic rates for each category are as follows: Category A – Rs 30 lakh; Category B – Rs 20 lakh; Category C – Rs 13 lakh; and Category D – Rs 9 lakh. Listen to the newest songs only on JioSaavn.com. The player pool will consist of 500.