Pro Kabaddi League: PKL 2022 auctions Day 1, players sold, team budget

Pawan Sehrawat becomes the most expensive player in Pro Kabaddi League, Fazel Atrachali bags Rs 1.38 crores, while few big names go unsold on Day 1 of PKL 2022 auctions.

Day 1 of Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) auctions witnessed some record-breaking deals, such as Fazel Atrachali, Pawan Shehrawat, and Vikash Kandola cracking huge sums of money. As expected, Pawan Shehrawat became the most expensive player in the PKL auctions 2022. Iranian Kabaddi star Fazel Atrachali became the most expensive overseas buy at Rs 1.38 crore and will represent Puneri Plans in PKL 2022, while Pawan Sehrawat bagged Rs 2.26 crore to play for Tamil Thalaivaa.

Vikash Kandola was another Indian and second-most expensive player with a price of Rs 1.7 crore and was the only buy of Bengaluru Bulls on Day 1. Surprisingly,  many legendary names did not receive any amount of money or were sold at low prices.  Sandeep Narwal and Abozar Mighani are some of the renowned names that went unsold, whereas Monu Goyat, Siddharth Desai, and Nitin Tomar were sold for their base price of Rs 20 lakh.

A whopping Rs 18.1 crore were spent on Day 1 of the Pro Kabaddi League auction, and there will be more action on Day 2 as the purses remaining have been reduced. Gujarat Giants are leading the race with a remaining purse of Rs 3.63 crore while Dabang Delhi is left with only Rs 1.95 crore.

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The day 2 auction is still going on and it is reported that Haryana Steelers have picked Iranian defender Amirhossein Bastami for Rs 65.1 lakh whereas Gujarat spent Rs 30.3 lakh to bag Shankar Bhimraj Gadai. Furthermore, Bengal warriors have paid Rs 27. 6 lakh on all-rounder Balaji D.
 

Pro Kabaddi League  2022: Players sold on Day 1

 

 

Team	Player	Price
Bengal Warriors	Girish Maruti Ernak (Defender)	Rs 20 lakh
	Ajinkya Rohidas Kapre (All rounder)	Rs 26 lakh
	Shrikant Jadhav (Raider)
	Deepak Nivas Hooda  (All Rounder)	Rs 43 lakh
Bengaluru Bulls	Vikash Khandola	Rs 170 lakh
Dabang Delhi KC	Vishal Lather (Defender)	Rs 20 lakh
	Sandeep Kumar Dhull (Defender)	Rs 40 lakh
Gujarat Giants	Pradeep Kumar (Raider) - FBM used	Rs 25 lakh
	Chandran Ranjit (Raider)	Rs 30 lakh
Haryana Steelers	Nitin Rawal (All-rounders)	Rs 37.5 lakh
	Manjeet(Raider)	Rs 80 lakh
Jaipur PInk Panthers	V Ajith Kumar (Raider)

Rs 66 lakh

 

Sunil Kumar (Defender)

Rs 90 lakh: 

Puneri Paltan

Mohammad Esmaeil Nabibakhsh (All rounder)

Rs 87 lakh

Fazel Atrachali (Defender)

Rs 138 lakh

Patna Pirates

Sunil Narwal (Defender) - FBM Used

Rs 21.5 lakh 

Rohit Gulia (All-rounder)

Rs 30 lakh

Sachin (Raider) - FBM Used

Rs 81 lakh

Telugu Titans 

Siddharth Sirish Desai (Raider) 

Rs 20 lakh

Monu Goyat -  (Raider)

Vishal Bhardwaj (Defender)

Rs 30 lakh

Surjeet Singh (Defender)

Rs 50 lakh

Abhishek Singh (Raider)

Rs 60 lakh

Parvesh Bhaiswal (Defender)

Rs 62 lakh 

Tamil Thalaivas

Pawan Kumar Sehrawat (Raider)

Rs 226 lakh

UP Yoddha

Pardeep Narwal  (Raider) - FBM Used 

Rs 90 lakh 

U Mumba

Surinder Singh (Defender)

Rs 35.5 lakh

Ashish Narwal (Raider)

Rs 45 lakh

Gurman SIngh (Raider) 

Rs 121.5 lakh

 

Pro Kabaddi League: Budget remaining after Day 1
 

 

Team	Purse Remaining
Gujarat Giants	Rs 3.63 Cr.
Telugu Titans	Rs 3.47 Cr.
U Mumba	Rs 3.34 Cr.
Haryana Steelers	Rs 3.33 Cr.
Tamil Thalaivas	Rs 2.83 Cr
Bengaluru Bulls	Rs 2.81 Cr
Bengal Warriors	Rs 2.76 Cr
Jaipur Pink Panthers	Rs 2.76 Cr
Puneri Paltan	Rs 2.69 Cr
Patna Pirates	Rs 2.12 Cr
UP Yoddhas	Rs 2.11 Cr
Dabang Delhi KC	Rs 1.95 Cr

The charts will be updated after day 2 auctions. Currently, most teams are looking stronger on paper. However, there would be budget concerns for Dabang Delhi KC and UP Yoddhas. We'll have to wait for day 2 to end to see how it turns out for all the teams.