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Second Round PICKS

Manush Shah, Harmeet Desai, Sreeja Akula all find new teams in the second round.

U Mumba - Lily Zhang (USA)

Bengaluru Smashers - Kirill Gerassimenko (Kazakhstan)

Puneri Paltan - Manush Shah 

Goa Challengers - Harmeet Desai

Dabang Delhi - Sreeja Akula

Chennai Lions - Yangzi Liu (Australia)

Round 2 STARTS

U Mumba TT to pick first in the second round.

We move into the second round

Each of the six teams will pick a player each from now onwards. 

First round picks

As mentioned earlier, Puneri Paltan and Goa Challengers get the first two picks.

Paltan bring in Egypt's Omar Assar.

Goa Challengers, on the other hand, go for Thai woman paddler Suthasini Sawettabutt. 

That's the end of the first round of picks!

We are all set!

We are all set. The draft will begin in a few minutes.

Indians in the draft

Men: Manush Shah, Harmeet Desai, Sanil Shetty, Snehit, Anirban Ghosh, Sudhanshu Grover, Jeet Chandra, Ronit Bhanja, Anthony Amalraj, Payas Jain, Ankur Bhattacharjee

Women: Sreeja Akula, Suthirtha Mukherjee, Diya Chitale, Reeth Rishya, Ayhika Mukherjee, Moumita Dutta, Anusha Kutumbale, Archana Kamath, Poymantee Baisya, Mouma Das, Takeme Sarkar, Prapti Sen, Krittwika Sinha Roy, 

List of foreigners in fray

The following foreigners will be in fray to be picked up by the franchises:

Men: Qaudri Aruna (Nigeria), Kirill Gerassimenko (Kazakhstan), Benedikt Duda (Germany), Jon Persson (Sweden), Alvaro Robles (Spain), Omar Assar (Egypt)

Women: Lily Zhang (USA), Suthasini Sawettabut (Thailand), Natalia Bojor (Poland), Barbora Balazova (Slovakia), Hana Matelova (Czech Republic), Yangzi Liu (Australia)

DRAFT RULES

The rules of the draft are pretty simple. Each team can build a team of six players. These six players should include two overseas stars - one male and one female, and four Indians - two men and two women. 

FYI

With 4 teams having retained a player each, only Goa Challengers and Puneri Paltan will be eligible to rope in players in the first round.

RETAINED PLAYERS

Achanta Sharath Kamal - Chennai Lions

Sathiyan Gnanasekaran - Dabang Delhi TTC

Manika Batra - Bengaluru Smashers

Manav Thakkar - U Mumba TT