PKL 2021 auction: Full list of players released by 12 kabaddi franchises

The 12 teams have released 161 players in total, with the Bengal Warriors (16 out of 20) and Telugu Titans (15 out of 18) releasing the most. Check full list here

The Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) is set to return after a year’s break due to Covid-19 pandemic. The 12 teams will begin to assemble their squads for the eighth season (PKL 2021) slated to take place in December. The non-retained players, including all squad players from PKL Seasons 6 and 7, will go under the hammer at the mega auctions in Mumbai from August 29 to 31.

 
Ahead of the much-awaited auction, teams have released some big players from their squad. Patna Pirates has released its star raider Pardeep Narwal while Tamil Thalaivas released its three kabaddi legends, Ajay Thakur, Rahul Chaudhary and Manjeet Chillar, among others. Thalaivas would look to buy new and in-form players as it failed to make any impression in previous two seasons.
 
The 12 teams have released 161 players in total, with the Bengal Warriors (16 out of 20) and Telugu Titans (15 out of 18) releasing the most.


 
Other big players that have been released are Iran’s Meraj Sheykh (Dabang Delhi), Siddharth Desai (Telugu Titans), Sandeep Narwal (U Mumba), and Rishank Devadiga (UP Yoddha), among others. Among captains, Rohit Kumar (Bengaluru Bulls), Rohit Gulia (Gujarat Fortunegiants), Dharmaraj Cheralathan (Haryana Steelers), Deepak Hooda (Jaipur Pink Panthers) and Surjeet Singh (Puneri Paltan) failed to retain their place in their previous teams ahead of PKL 2021 auction.

 
 The Patna Pirates is PKL’s most successful team, having won three times and being the only team to defend their title thrice. Apart from the incumbent champions Bengal Warriors, Jaipur Pink Panthers, U Mumba, and Bengaluru Bulls have won one title each. 

Here is the full list of players released (teamwise):
 

Bengal Warriors
 
Raiders

• Sukesh Hegde
• K Prapanjan
• Mohammad Taghi
• Rakesh Narwal 

Defender

• Amit
• Naveen Narwal
• Baldev Singh
• Jeeva Kumar
• Viraj Vishnu Landge
• Adarsh T
• Dharmendra Singh 

All-rounder

• Amir Dhumal
• Avinash A.R.
• Mayur Shivkarkar
• Sourabh Patil
• Sunil Dubili 

Bengaluru Bulls
 
 Raider

• Rohit Kumar
• Lal Mohar Yadav
• Sumit Singh
• Vinod Kumar - Raider

Defender

• Rajulal Choudhary
• Vijay Kumar
• Mahender Singh
• Aman
• Sandeep
• Ajay
• Ankit

 All-rounder

•  Ashish Kumar
• Sanjay Shreshtha

Dabang Delhi
 
Raider

• Aman Kadian
• Chandran Ranjit
• Sumit Kumar

Defender

• Joginder Narwal
• Vishal Mane
• Pratik Patil
• Ravinder Pahal
• Anil Kumar
• Saeid Ghaffari
• Satywan
• Sombir

All-rounder

• Meraj Sheykh

Gujarat Giants
 
Raider

• Abolfazl Maghsodloumahali
• Gurvinder Singh
• Lalit Chaudhary
• More GB
• Sachin Tanwar
• Sonu

 Defender

• Amit Kharb
• Ruturaj Koravi
• Pankaj
• Shazid Hossain

All-rounder

• Vinod Kumar
• Rohit Gulia
•  

Haryana Steelers
 
Raider

• Amirhossein Maleki
• Arun Kumar HN
• Naveen
• Prashanth Kumar Rai
• Selvamani K

Defender

• Dharmaraj Cheralathan
• Ravi Kumar
• Vikas Kale
• Sunil
• Parveen
• Subash Narwal
• Vikram Kandola
• Kuldeep Singh

 All-rounder

• Tin Phonchoo

 Jaipur Pink Panthers

Raider 

• Ajinkya Pawar
• Deepak Narwal
• Guman Singh
• Lokesh Kaushik
• Milinda Chaturanga
• Nilesh Salunke

 Defender

• Karamvir
• Sandeep Dhull
• Sunil Siddhgavali

 All-rounder

• Deepak Hooda
• Dong Gyu Kim
• Santhapanaselvam

Players released by Patna Pirates ahead of PKL 2021 auction
 
Raider

•  Pardeep Narwal
• Ashish
• Jang Kun Lee
• Mohammad Esmaeil
• Naveen
• Purna Singh

 Defender

•  Mahendra Choudhary
• Jaideep
• Jawahar
• Amit Kumar 

All-rounder

• Hadi Oshtorak
• Ravinder
• Vikas Jaglan

 Puneri Paltan released players
 
Raider

• Nitin Tomar
• Amit Kumar
• Darshan Kadian
• Emad Sedaghatnia
• Manjeet
• Sriram
• Sushant Sail
• Deepak Yadav

Defender

• Surjeet Singh
• Shubham Shinde
• Girish Maruti Ernak

All-rounder

• Amit Kumar
• Sagar Krishna
• Sandeep

Tamil Thalaivas
 
Raider

• Rahul Chaudhari
• Ajay Thakur
• Anand
• Shabeer Bappu
• Ajith Kumar
• Vineet Sharma
• Yashwant Bishnoi

Defender

• Ajeet
• Ponparthiban Subramanian
• Mohit Chhillar
• Arif Robbani

All-rounder

• Manjeet Chhillar
• Hemant Chauhan
• Ran Singh
• Victor Obiero

Players releaased by Telugu Titans ahead of PKL 2021

Raider

• Siddharth Desai
• Sooraj Desai
• Amit Kumar
• Kamal Singh
• Mula Siva Ganesh Reddy
• Palle Mallikarjun

Defender 

• Vishal Bhardwaj
• Arun
• Krushna Madne
• Abozar Mohajermighani

All-rounder

• Armaan
• Farhad Milaghardan 

 U Mumba released players
 
Raider

• Arjun Deshwal
• Athul MS
• Dong Geon Lee
• Gaurav Kumar
• Rohit Baliyan
• Vinoth Kumar

Defender

• Rajaguru Subramanian
• Harsh Vardhan
• Anil
• Young Chang Ko
• Surinder Singh

 All-rounder

• Sandeep Narwal
• Mohit Baliyan

 UP Yoddha released players
 
Raider

• Rishank Devadiga
• Shrikant Jadhav
• Monu Goyat
• Masud Karim
• Ankush
• Azad Singh
• Gulveer Singh
• Surender Singh

 Defender

• Ashish Nagar
• Amit

All-rounder

• Akram Shaikh
• Gurdeep
• Mohsen Maghsoudlou
• Narender
• Sachin Kumar