PKL 2024 Auction Day 1- Sachin, Shadloui goes big, Pawan Sehrawat back in Telugu Titans - Highlights

Shadloui's dream run continues

Telugu-Titans and UP Yoddhas in a bidding war at 1.16 crore. U Mumba shows up at 1.17 crores.

First Player of the Auction: Mohammadreza Shadloui Chiyaneh

Opening bid of 30L by Telugu Titans

Auction Live: Category A- All-Rounders- International Players

The international players from category A go first in the order of All-rounder, Defender, and Raider.

The Auctioneer: Mallika Sagar

Mallika has been holding the hammer in PKL since 2021 and She also became the first woman in IPL's history to run an auction.

Lights, Camera, and Auction

The stage is set, the live-action coming in a bit.

Spotlight on Pawan Sehrawat

The Pro Kabaddi League Season 10 saw Pawan Sehrawat as the most expensive player in the history of the league. 

Pawan was grabbed by the Telugu Titans for a staggering INR 2.61 crore for season 10 in 2023-24.

With Pawan being released by the Titans, all the other franchisees will be looking to have a snap at Sehrawat again.

Along with Pawan, Pardeep Narwal, Maninder Singh, Fazel Atrachali, Shadlu, and others will also go under the hammer sometimes and break the banks. 

Read more about the top players to spark bidding wars among the franchisees. 

Few Auction Rules...

The Team Composition

Each team’s squad in Pro Kabaddi Season 11 can have a minimum of 18 and a maximum of 25 players. With 88 players already retained by the franchises, there are now 212 slots left to be filled during the Season 11 player auction.

Further, A PKL team is allowed to have a minimum of two and a maximum of four overseas players in their squad

What is the Final Bid Match?

The Final Bid Match (FBM) Card rule allows franchises to buy back their released players by matching the final auction bid price for the player concerned.

Each team can utilise a maximum of three FBM cards, depending on the number of players they have released ahead of the player auction. If a team chooses to retain their maximum allotted 6 players, they will be allowed to use the card FBM only once. However, card usage increases if the team has retained only 5 or fewer players.

For more details about the auction: here.

Purse Remaining

A total of 5 crores was allotted for each franchisee, let's have a look at the purse left with each of the franchisees after the retentions.

Existing New Young Players

Bengal Warriors: Shreyas Umbardand, Aditya S. Shinde, Dipak Arjun Shinde, Maharudra Garje

Bengaluru Bulls: Aditya Powar, Akshit, Arulnanthababu, Parteek

Dabang Delhi K.C.: Ashish, Himmat Antil, Manu, Yogesh

Gujarat Giants: Nitin

Haryana Steelers: Jaya Soorya NS, Hardeep, Shivam Anil Patare, Vishal S. Tate

Jaipur Pink Panthers: Abhijeet Malik

Patna Pirates: Abinand Subhash, Kunal Mehta, Sudhakar M

Puneri Paltan: Dadaso Pujari, Nitin, Tushar Adhavade, Vaibhav Kamble

Tamil Thalaivas: Nitesh Kumar, Nitin Singh, Ronak, Vishal Chahal

Telugu Titans: Ankit, Omkar Patil, Praful Zaware, Sanjeevi S

U Mumba: Bittu, Gokulakannan M., Mukilan Shanmugam, Sombir

UP Yoddhas: Gagana Gowda HR, Hitesh, Shivam Chaudhary

Retained Young Players

Bengal Warriors, Dabang Delhi K.C., and Telugu Titans haven't retained any player from the Retained Young Player category. 

Bengaluru Bulls: Saurabh Nandal 

Patna Pirates: Manish

U Mumba: Shivam

Jaipur Pink Panthers: Ankush, Abhishek KS 

Gujarat Giants: Parteek Dahiya, Rakesh

Haryana Steelers: Jaideep, Mohit, Vinay

UP Yoddhas: Sumit, Surender Gill, Ashu Singh

Puneri Paltan: Aditya Shinde, Akash Shinde, Mohit Goyat, Aslam Mustafa Inamdar, Pankaj Mohite, Sanket Sawant

Tamil Thalaivas: Narender, Sahil, Mohit, Aashish, Sagar, Himanshu, M. Abisek