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The Indian Kabaddi League 2022 auction ended on Saturday evening (August 6) after two days of action and strategy on the auction floor. While Day 1 was filled with record-breaking signings, it was much quieter on Day 2 of the auction in Mumbai.

Kabaddi Auction 2022 Categories

Domestic, overseas, and new young players were divided into four categories: Category A, B, C and D in this player auction. The players were further subdivided as ‘All-Rounders’, ‘Defenders’ and ‘Raiders’ within each category.

Category

Base Price

Category A

₹30 Lakhs

Category B

₹20 Lakhs

Category C

₹10 Lakhs

Category D

₹6 Lakhs

The total salary purse available to each franchisee for Season 9 is ₹4.4 crores. Apart from all the previous season players, the season 9 player pool also includes 24 players from top 2 teams of the Khelo India University Games 2021.

Kabaddi 2022 Auction 2022 Rules

The franchisees are allowed to retain up to 6 players under the Elite Retained Players category and up to 4 new young players.

On Day 1, players from category A and category B went under the hammer. On day 2, the same process was repeated with the category C, category D, and the unsold players from earlier rounds.

Kabaddi 2022 Auction 5 Most Expensive Buys

The teams went for the big names and star players on Day 1, and then made their strategies and bids according to their buys on Day 2, i.e. building around the star players they signed.

Pawan Sehrawat was the most expensive buy on Day 1, bought by the Tamil team for ₹2.26 crores followed by Vikash Kandola going to the Bengaluru team for ₹1.7 crores.

Amirhossein Bastami of Iran was the most expensive buy on Day 2, going to the Haryana team for ₹65.1 lakhs.

Player

Price 

Team

Pawan Sehrawat

₹2.26 crores

Tamil

Vikas Khandola

₹1.7 crores

Bengaluru

Fazel Atrachali

₹1.38 crores

Puneri

Guman Singh

₹1.22 crores

Mumba

Pradeep Narwal

₹90 lakhs

UP

Sunil Kumar

₹90 lakhs

Jaipur

Kabaddi League Season 9 Full Squads

Let's take a look at the full squads of all the twelve teams for the ninth edition of the Indian Kabaddi League.

Bengal Team Squad 2022 for Kabaddi League Season 9

Team Purse

Funds Spent

Raiders

Defenders

All-rounders

4.4 Cr

4.22 Cr

7

8

7

Deepak Niwas Hooda is the highest paid player in the Bengal Team, bought for an auction price of ₹43 lakhs.

Retained Players: Manoj Gowda K, Akash Pikalmunde, Maninder Singh, Suyog Baban Gaikar, R Guhan, Parshant Kumar, Vaibhav Bhausaheb Garje

Auction Buys: Ajinkya Rohidas Kapre, Girish Maruti Ernak, Deepak Niwas Hooda, Shrikant Jadhav, Soleiman Pahlevani, Aslam Saja Mohamed Thambi, Ashish Kumar Sangwan, Vinod Kumar, Balaji D, Parveen Satpal, Amit Sheoran, Surender Nada, Sakthivel R, Shubham Shinde, Rohit

Bengaluru Team Squad 2022 for Season 9 Kabaddi Fantasy League

Team Purse

Funds Spent

Raiders

Defenders

All-rounders

4.4 Cr

4.37 Cr

7

9

2

Vikash Khandola is the highest paid player in the Bengaluru Team, bought for an auction price of ₹1.7 crores.

Retained Players: Mayur Kadam, Yash Hooda, Rohit Kumar, Saurabh Nandal, Mahender Singh, GB More,, Aman, Vinod Lachmayya Naik, Bharat, Rajnesh

Auction Buys: Nageshor Tharu, Lal Mohar YadavVikash Khandola, Sachin NarwalRahul KhatikSudhakar Krishanth KadamNeeraj NarwalHarmanjit Singh

Delhi Team Squad 2022 for Indian Kabaddi League Season 9

Team Purse

Funds Spent

Raiders

Defenders

All-rounders

4.4 Cr

4.31 Cr

5

12

3

Ravi Kumar is the highest paid player in the Delhi Team, bought for an auction price of ₹64.1 lakhs.

Retained Players: Vijay Malik, Vinay Kumar, Naveen Kumar, Krishan Dhull, Ashu Malik, Dipak, Manjeet, Suraj Panwar, Ashish Narwal, Vijay

Auction Buys: Sandeep Kumar Dhull, Vishal Lather, Md. Liton AliReza Katoulinezhad, Amit Hooda, Anil Kumar, Ravi Kumar, Aakash, Tejas Maruti Patil, Monu


Gujarat Team Squad 2022 for Season 9 Kabaddi League

Team Purse

Funds Spent

Raiders

Defenders

All-rounders

4.4 Cr

3.85 Cr

12

9

3

Rinku Narwal is the highest paid player in the Gujarat Team, bought for an auction price of ₹40 lakhs.

Retained Players: Sonu, Rakesh, Gaurav Chhikhara, Sonu Singh, Sohit Malik, Parteek Dahiya, and Rohan Singh


Auction Buys: Chandran Ranjit, Pardeep Kumar, Dong Geon Lee, Young Chang Ko, Arkam Shaikh, Shankar Bhimraj Gadai, Rinku Narwal, Sourav Gulia, Sandeep Kandola, Vinod Kumar, Baldev Singh, Sawin, Purna Singh, Mahendra Ganesh Rajput, Ujjval Singh, Kapil, and Manuj

Haryana Team Squad 2022 for Fantasy Kabaddi League Season 9

Team Purse

Funds Spent

Raiders

Defenders

All-rounders

4.4 Cr

3.76 Cr

9

9

1

Manjeet is the highest paid player in the Haryana Team, bought for an auction price of ₹80 lakhs.

Retained Players: Vinay, Meetu, Jaideep, Ankit, Mohit, Monu, Harsh, Naveen, and Sunny

Auction Buys: Amirhossein Bastami, Manjeet, Nitin Rawal, Mohammad Maghsoudlou, Sushil, K Prapanjan, Manish Gulia, Lovepreet Singh, Joginder Singh Narwal, and Rakesh Narwal

Jaipur Team Squad 2022 for Season 9 Indian Kabaddi League

Team Purse

Funds Spent

Raiders

Defenders

All-rounders

4.4 Cr

4.37 Cr

7

10

1

Sunil Kumar is the highest paid player in the Jaipur Team, bought for an auction price of ₹90 lakhs.

Retained Players: Deepak, Devank, Arjun Deshwal, Ankush, Sahul Kumar, Ashish, and Abhishek KS

Auction Buys: V Ajith Kumar, Sunil Kumar, Woosan KO, Reza Mirbagheri, Lucky Sharma, Nitin Panwar, Bhavani Rajput, Navneet, Rahul Chaudhari, Nitin Chandel, and Rahul Dhanware

Patna Team Squad 2022 for Kabaddi League Season 9

Team Purse

Funds Spent

Raiders

Defenders

All-rounders

4.4 Cr

4.38 Cr

6

10

2

Sachin is the highest paid player in the Puneri Team, bought for an auction price of ₹81 lakhs.

Retained Players: Neeraj Kumar, Monu, Mohammadreza Chiyaneh, Sajin Chandrasekhar, Manish, Rohit, Ranjit Venkatramana Naik, Thiyagarajan Yuvaraj, Anuj Kumar, and Naveen Sharma

Auction Buys: Rohit Gulia, Sachin, Sunil Narwal, Daniel Omondi Odhiambo, Abdul Insamam S, Shivam Chaudhari, Anand Surendra Tomar, Sushil Gulia, Vishwas S, and Sagar Kumar

Puneri Team Squad 2022 for Season 9 Kabaddi Fantasy League

Team Purse

Funds Spent

Raiders

Defenders

All-rounders

4.4 Cr

4.31 Cr

8

6

7

Fazel Atrachali is the highest paid player in the Puneri Team, bought for an auction price of ₹1.38 crores.

Retained Players: Mohit Goyat, Akash Santhosh Shinde, Sanket Sawant, Govind Gurjar, Aslam Inamdar, Sombir, Abinesh Nadarajan, Shubham Nitin Shelke, Pankaj Mohite, Badal Taqdir Singh, and Aditya Tushar Shinde

Auction Buys: Mohammad Esmaeil Nabibakhsh, Fazel Atrachali, Alankar Kaluram Patil, Rakesh Bhalle Ram, Balasaheb Shahaji Jadhav, Harsh Mahesh Lad, and D Mahindaprasad

Tamil Team Squad 2022 for Indian Kabaddi League Season 9

Team Purse

Funds Spent

Raiders

Defenders

All-rounders

4.4 Cr

4.4 Cr

6

9

3

Pawan Sehrawat is the highest paid player in the Tamil Team, bought for an auction price of ₹2.26 crores.

Retained Players: Ajinkya Ashok Pawar, Abhishek M, Sagar, Himanshu, Himanshu Singh, Mohit, Ashish, Sahil, Jatin, Himanshu, and Narender

Auction Buys: Thanushan Laxmamohan, Md. Arif Rabbani, Pawan Sehrawat, Visvanath V, Arpit Saroha, K Abhimanyu, and Ankit

Telugu Team Squad 2022 for Season 9 Kabaddi League

Team Purse

Funds Spent

Raiders

Defenders

All-rounders

4.4 Cr

4.38 Cr

7

12

4

Parvesh Bhainswal is the highest paid player in the Telugu Team, bought for an auction price of ₹62 lakhs.

Retained Players: Ankit Beniwal, Rajnish, Muhammed Shihas S, Prince, Palla Ramakrishna, Vinay, Mohit Pahal, Mohit, and Nitin

Auction Buys: Abhishek Singh, Monu Goyat, Parvesh Bhainswal, Siddharth Desai, Surjeet Singh, Vishal Bhardwaj, Hamid Mirzaei Nader, Mohsen Maghsoudlou Jafari, K Hanumanthu, Adarsh T, Vijay Kumar, Ravinder Pahal, Aman Kadian, and Ravinder

Mumba Team Squad 2022 for Kabaddi League Season 9

Team Purse

Funds Spent

Raiders

Defenders

All-rounders

4.4 Cr

4.22 Cr

10

9

1

Guman Singh is the highest paid player in the Mumba Team, bought for an auction price of ₹1.22 crores.

Retained Players: Shivam, Pranay Vinay Rane, Rinku, Prince, Rahul, Kamlesh, Shivansh Thakur, Rupesh, and Sachin

Auction Buys: Ashish, Guman Singh, Surinder Singh, Heidarali Ekrami, Gholamabbas Korouki, Harendra Kumar, Kiran Laxman Magar, Mohit, Ankush, Jai Bhagwan, and Satywan

UP Team Squad 2022 for Season 9 Indian Kabaddi League

Team Purse

Funds Spent

Raiders

Defenders

All-rounders

4.4 Cr

4.28 Cr

11

7

3

Pardeep Narwal is the highest paid player in the Mumba Team, bought for an auction price of ₹90 lakhs.

Retained Players: Nitesh Kumar, Surender Gill, Sumit, Aman, Ashu Singh, Nitin Panwar, Shubham Kumar, Rohit Tomar, Anil Kumar, Mahipal, and Durgesh Kumar

Auction Buys: Nitin Tomar, James Namaba Kamweti, Pardeep Narwal, Abozar Mighani, Gurdeep, Jaideep, Gulveer Singh, Rathan K, Nehal B Sawal Desai, and Babu Murugasan

With the auction for the Kabaddi League Season 9 now over, all the team squads have a great mix of seasoned and young players. All 12 franchises will now be eagerly waiting for the Season 9 of the Indian Fantasy Kabaddi League to start as soon as possible.

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