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The Pro Kabaddi League Auction 2019 was completed in Mumbai on 9th April after a fierce 2-day event saw the coaches and the team owners engaged in bidding wars to get the best team for Season 7 of the Vivo Pro Kabaddi League. Each team had a really huge purse of ₹4.4 Crore which they shelled out to acquire the services of the players of their choice.
Over 120 players were bought by the teams who had the option of retaining few players ahead of the auction. Puneri Paltan went all-out at the auction after choosing to retain no players. Over 50 Crore was spent by the teams as the players from the New Young Players Initiative as well as the Overseas Players were sought after by teams.
Siddharth Desai, last season's best debutant, was the biggest buy of the auction as he bagged for ₹1.45 Crore by the Telugu Titans. Day 1 one of the auction saw the players from Category A and Category B being put up for sale while Day 2 saw the players from Category C and D being put up before the unsold players came back for sale.
All the teams would've come into the auction with a set plan and they would've gone out of the auction with the right team, the one which they desired.
Let's now take a look at the players bought by each team at this auction.
Bengal Warriors:
Elite Retained Players: Baldev Singh [12 Lakh], Maninder Singh [56 Lakh]
Retained Young Players: Adarsh T, Ravindra Kumawat
New Young Players: Sahil
Auction Buys:
Mohammad Nabibakhsh [77.5 Lakh] (Overseas)
K. Prapanjan [55 Lakh]
Jeeva Kumar [31 Lakh]
Rinku Narwal [20 Lakh]
Sukesh Hegde [20 Lakh]
Rakesh Narwal [16.25 Lakh]
Mohammad Taghi [15.5 Lakh] (Overseas)
AR Avinash [10 Lakh]
Amit Santhosh Dummal [10 Lakh]
Viraj Vishnu Langde [10 Lakh]
Vijin Thangadurai [10 Lakh]
Bhuvneshwar Gaur [10 Lakh]
Bengaluru Bulls:
Elite Retained Players: Rohit Kumar [89 Lakh], Pawan Sehrawat [52 Lakh], Ashish Kumar [23 Lakh]
Young Retained Players: Amit Sheoran, Sumit Singh
New Young Players: Mohit Sehrawat, Bunty
Auction Buys:
Mahender Singh [80 lakh]
Vijay Kumar [21.25 lakh]
Sanjay Shreshtha [10 lakh]
Lal Mohar Yadav [10 lakh]
Sandeep [10 lakh]
Raju Lal Choudhary - [10 lakh]
Vinod Kumar - [10 lakh]
Aman [6 Lakh]
Dabang Delhi KC:
Elite Retained Players: Meraj Sheykh [65 Lakh], Joginder Narwal [33 Lakh]
Chandran Ranjit [70 lakh]
Ravinder Pahal [61 lakh]
Vijay Malik [41 lakh]
Vishal Mane [28.5 lakh]
Anil Kumar [20 lakh]
Saeed Ghaffari [16.5 lakh]
Sombir [10 Lakh]
Pratik Patil [6 lakh]
Satywan [6 Lakh]
Neeraj Narwal [6 Lakh]
Gujarat Fortune Giants:
Elite Retained Players: Sachin Tanwar [ ₹56 Lakh], Sunil Kumar [ ₹49 Lakh]
Retained Young Players: Rohit Gulia, Lalit Chaudhary
Auction Buys:
Parvesh Bhainswal [₹75 lakh]
Rituraj Koravi [₹30.5 lakh]
Vinod Kumar [₹26 lakh]
GB More [₹21.25 lakh]
Abolfazl Maghsoudlou [₹15.75 lakh] (Overseas)
Gurvinder Singh [₹10 lakh]
Sonu [₹10 lakh]
Abhishek [₹8 lakh]
Sonu Gahlawat [₹6 lakh]
Haryana Steelers:
Elite Retained Players: Vikash Khandola[₹47 Lakh], Kuldeep Singh [₹10 Lakh]
New Young Players: Vinay
Auction Buys:
Prashanth Kumar Rai [₹77 lakh]
Dharmaraj Cheralathan [₹38.5 lakh]
Vikas Kale [₹34.25 lakh]
Naveen [₹33.5 lakh]
Ravi Kumar [₹20 lakh]
K Selvamani [₹16.5 lakh]
Amir Hossain Maleki [₹12.5 lakh] (Overseas)
Tim Phonchoo [₹10 lakh] (Overseas)
Vikram Khandola [₹10 lakh]
Subhash Narwal [₹6 Lakh]
Jaipur Pink Panthers:
Elite Retained Players: Deepak Niwas Hooda [₹115 Lakh], Sandeep Kumar Dhull [₹66 Lakh]
Retained Young Players: Lokesh Kaushik, Ajinkya Pawar
New Young Players: Sachin Narwal, Pavan TR, Sushil Gulia
Auction Buys:
Amit Hooda [₹53 lakh]
Deepak Narwal [₹30.5 lakh]
Nilesh Salunke [₹23.5 lakh]
Vishal Lather [₹20.25 lakh]
Sunil Siddhgawali [₹20 lakh]
Dong Gyu Kim [₹10 lakh] (Overseas)
Malinda Chaturanga [₹10 lakh] (Overseas)
Karamvir [₹6 lakh]
Patna Pirates:
Elite Retained Players: Pardeep Narwal [₹60 lakh], Jawahar Dagar[₹13 lakh], Vikas Jaglan[₹8 lakh]
New Young Players: Mohit
Auction Buys:
Surender Nada [₹77 lakh]
Neeraj Kumar [₹44.75 lakh]
Jang Kun Lee [₹40 lakh] (Overseas)
Mohammad Maghsoudlou [₹35 lakh] (Overseas)
Jaideep [₹35 lakh]
Hadi Oshtorak [₹16 lakh] (Overseas)
Ravinder [₹10 lakh]
Ashish [₹6 lakh]
Puneri Paltan:
Elite Retained Players: Nil
Auction Buys:
Nitin Tomar [₹1.20 crore]
Manjeet [₹63 lakh]
PO Surjeet Singh [₹56 lakh]
Girish Maruti Ernak [₹33 lakh]
Darshan Kadian [₹20 lakh]
Pawan Kumar [₹20 lakh]
Amit Kumar [₹12 lakh]
Emad Sedaghat [₹11.25 lakh] (Overseas)
Jadhav Balasaheb Shahaji [₹10.25 lakh]
Hadi Tajik [₹10 lakh] (Overseas)
Satpal [₹10 lakh]
Deepak Yadav [₹10 lakh]
Tamil Thalaivas
Elite Retained Players: Victor Onyango Obeiro (Overseas), Ajay Thakur [₹76 lakh], Manjeet Chillar [₹20 lakh]
New Young Players: M. Abhishek, Himanshu
Auction Buys:
Rahul Chaudhari [₹94 lakh]
Ran Singh [₹55 lakh]
Mohit Chhillar [₹45 lakh]
Ajeet [₹32 lakh]
Milad Shiebak [₹10 lakh]
Shabeer Bapu [₹10 lakh]
Yashwant Bishnoi [₹10 lakh]
Vineet Sharma [₹10 lakh]
Telugu Titans:
Elite Retained Players: Armaan [₹5 lakh], Farhad Rahimi Milaghardan [₹21 Lakh] (Overseas), Krushna Madane
New Young Players: Akash Choudhary, Manish
Auction Buys:
Siddharth Desai [₹145 lakh]
Abozar Mighani [₹75 lakh] (Overseas)
Vishal Bhardwaj [₹60 lakh]
Duet Jennings [₹10 lakh] (Overseas)
Amit Kumar [₹10 lakh]
C Arun [₹10 lakh]
Suraj Desai [₹10 lakh]
Sombir [₹10 lakh]
Mula Siva Ganesh Reddy [₹6 lakh]
Rakesh Gowda [₹6 lakh]
U Mumba:
Elite Retained Players: Fazel Atrachali [₹100 lakh] (Overseas) , Arjun Deshwal [₹8 lakh], Rajaguru Subramanian [₹12 lakh]
Retained Young Players: Mohit Balyan, Gaurav Kumar, Anil
Auction Buys:
Sandeep Narwal [₹89 lakh]
Rohit Baliyan [₹35 lakh]
Dong Geon Lee [₹25 lakh] (Overseas)
Athul MS [₹20 lakh]
Ajinkya Rohidas Kapre [₹10.25 lakh]
Young Chang Ko [₹10 lakh] (Overseas)
Abhishek Singh [₹10 lakh]
Vinod Kumar [₹10 lakh]
Harsh Vardhan [₹10 lakh]
Harendra Kumar [₹10 lakh]
U.P Yoddha:
Elite Retained Players: Amit [₹8 lakh], Sachin Kumar [₹19 lakh]
Retained Young Players: Nitesh Kumar Azad Singh, Aashish Nagar, Arkam Shaikh
Auction Buys:
Monu Goyat [₹93 lakh]
Shrikant Jadhav [₹68 lakh]
Rishank Devadiga [₹61 lakh]
Mohsen Maghsoudlou [₹21 Lakh] (Overseas)
Narender [₹20 lakh]
Masud Karim [₹10 lakh]
Surender Singh [₹10 lakh]
Gulveer Singh [₹10 lakh]
Gurdeep [₹10 lakh]
Ankush [₹6.25 lakh]
