PKL 2024 Auction Highlights Day 2: Rahul Chaudhari goes unsold, Jang-Kun Lee returns to Pro Kabaddi

Sachin Tanwar to Tamil Thalaivas - 2.15 CR
Mohammadreza Shadloui Chiyaneh to Haryana Steelers - 2.07 CR
Guman Singh to Gujarat Giants - 1.97 CR
Pawan Sehrawat to Telugu Titans -1.725 CR
Bharat Hooda to UP Yoddhas -1.30 CR

Over two days, 118 players went under the hammer in the auctions for the Pro Kabaddi League’s eleventh edition here. A record eight players crossed the 1 crore mark for the first time in the league’s history with raider Sachin Tanwar emerging as the top buy this season. Tamil Thalaivas secured the Indian’s services for a whopping ₹2.07 CR. Sachin left behind superstars like Iranian Mohammadreza Shadloui Chiyaneh (Haryana Steelers – ₹2.07 CR) and Pawan Sehrawat (Telugu Titans - ₹1.725 CR).

While day one saw the creme de la creme of Indian and international kabaddi snapped up by franchises, day two was key in how teams built squads around these marquee players.

Most notably, South Korean raider Jang-Kun Lee was picked up by Patna Pirates for ₹17.50 Lakh is set to return to the PKL fold - after four seasons. However, Rahul Chaudhari -- one of the earliest superstars of Indian kabaddi in the PKL era -- failed to find takers this time. Inconsistent performances over the past four seasons have put him out of favour in the player market.

Tamil Nadu raider V Ajith Kumar was the most expensive player on day two, going for ₹66 Lakh to Puneri Paltan while Rajasthan’s Jai Bhagwan earned a ₹63 Lakh top bid from Bengaluru Bulls, where he joins the likes of Pardeep Narwal (who went for a modest ₹70 L).

Every team was given a budget of ₹5 CR for the auction. Haryana Steelers came closest to exhausting its purse, ultimately spending ₹4.99 CR in setting up its squad. 

And Navneet is the last player who gets sold tonight.

Raider Navneet sold to Jaipur Pink Panthers for 13 lakhs. 

Raider Sourabh Fagare sold to Tamil Thalaivas for 9 lakhs. 

Bengal Warriorz gets raider Pranay Vinay Rane for 13 lakhs. 

Sagar Kumar sold to Bengal Warriorz for 13 lakhs. 

Raider Vinay is sold to Dabang Delhi K.C. for 13 lakhs. 

Nitesh sold to Gujarat Giants for 13 lakhs. 

Raider Satish Kumar sold to U Mumba for 13 lakhs. 

Sourav gets Puneri Paltan at 9 lakhs. 

Sanskar Mishra goes to Haryana Steelers at 9 lakhs.

K. Dharanidharan sold to Jaipur Pink Panthers at 13 lakhs. 

Right-cover defender Aashish Kumar sold to U Mumba for 9 lakhs.

Lucky Sharma sold to Jaipur Pink Panthers for 13 lakhs. 

Jatin sold to Bengaluru Bulls for 13 lakhs. 

Vaibhav Bhausaheb Garje sold to Bengal Warriorz at 20 lakhs.

Right-corner defender Manuj sold to Gujarat Giants at 13 lakhs.

Right-cover defender Mohit sold to Gujarat Giants at 13 lakhs.

Defender Rinku Narwal sold to Dabang Delhi K.C. at 13 lakhs.

Raider Rohan Singh sold to Gujarat Giants for 13 lakhs.

Harsh Lad goes to Gujarat Giants for 13 lakhs. 

Raider Aadesh Siwach sold to Gujarat Giants at 9 lakhs

Raider Himanshu Singh sold to Gujarat Giants at 13 lakhs.

All-rounder Naveen goes to Haryana Steelers at 9 lakhs.

Babu Murugasan goes to Patna Pirates at 13 lakhs.

Raider Vishal Choudhary is sold to U Mumba for 9 lakhs.

Left-cover defender Vishal is sold to Puneri Paltan for 13 lakhs. 

Right-cover Ravi Kumar is sold to Jaipur Pink Panthers for 13 lakhs.

Bengal Warriorz has 7 raiders and 9 defenders but are still to add any all-rounders to its squad. 

Bengaluru Bulls has 6 raiders, 7 defenders and 1 all-rounders. 

Dabang Delhi has 7 raider and defenders 3 all-rounders. 

U Mumba gets Stuwart Singh for 14.20 lakhs. 

Pravinder goes to Patna Pirates for 13 lakhs. 

UP Yoddhas gets Akshay R. Suryawanshi for 12.9 lakhs. 

Aryavardhan Navale sold to Puneri Paltan for 9 lakhs.

Bengal Warriorz buys Arjun Rath for 41 lakhs. 

One more Defender goes to the Haryana Steelers. Ashish Gill becomes a Steeler for INR 9 lakhs.

Gujarat Giants are back in the business. They get Himanshu as their Raider for INR 9 lakhs.

Parveen to Dabang Delhi for 9 lakhs. 

M. Dhanasekar goes to U Mumba for INR 9.40 lakhs. 

Akash B Chavhan is sold to Bengal Warriorz for 9 lakhs.

The auction has moved on to category D raiders.

Hem Raj joins Bengal Warriorz for his base price of 9 lakhs. 

Bengal Warriorz buys Sambhaji Wabale for 12.9 lakhs. 

Dabang Delhi buys defender Rahul for his base price of 9 lakhs. 

Manikandan S. sold to Haryana Steelers for 9 lakhs. 

Newcomer Mohd. Amaan goes to Puneri Paltan 16.20 lakhs.

Sagar is sold to Patna Pirates at 9 lakhs.

Aman joins Patna Pirates for 9 lakhs. 

Mayank Malik heads Jaipur Pink Panthers at 9 lakhs.

The auction has moved to category D defenders.

Aamir Wani is sold to Jaipur Pink Panthers at 9 lakhs.

Shubham Kumar is sold to U Mumba at 9.20 lakhs.

Raj D. Salunkhe sold to Gujarat Giants for 9 lakhs

Amit Kumar is sold to Telugu Titans for 9 lakhs.

Auction resumes with domestic all-rounders from category D.

Category base price is 9 lakhs. 

Embrace for Category D players coming on the table soon. 

Satish Kannan is unsold.

Ashish Narwal is sold to Telugu Titans for 13 lakhs.

Jai Bhagwan heads Bengaluru Bulls for 63 lakhs. 

Jai Bhagwan is next on the table.

He might be the next big sale of today. 

Ajith V Kumar joins Puneri Paltan for 66 lakhs. 

PKL Auction 2024: Ajith Kumar goes to Puneri Paltan for Rs. 66 lakh

Ajith V Kumar was roped in by Puneri Paltan for Rs. 66 lakh on Friday during the second day of the Pro Kabaddi League 2024 auction in Mumbai.

Ajith V Kumar is on the table at the moment. 

He is drawing bids from several franchises. 

He has 460 raid points from 79 matches. 

Devank is sold to Patna Pirates for 20.10 lakhs. 

PKL legend, the original ‘Showman’ Rahul Chaudhari goes unsold.

PKL Auction 2024: Season 9 winner Rahul Chaudhari remains unsold

Rahul Chaudhari was left without a club after failing to attract bids during the second day of the Pro Kabaddi League 2024 auction in Mumbai.

Mahendra Ganesh Rajput goes unsold.

Rajnish is unsold. 

Neeraj Narwal heads to Jaipur Pink Panthers for his base price of 13 lakhs. 

Vikash Khandola goes to Jaipur Pink Panthers for 32 lakhs. 

Vikash Khandola is next on the auction table. 

The raider, who has 800 career PKL raid points to his name is attracting interest from several franchises. 

Shrikant Jadhav is sold to Jaipur Pink Patners for 15 lakhs. 

The dynamic Shrikant Jadhav is on the table. The Maharashtra raider can be a big sale.

Bhavani Rajput goes to UP Yoddhas for 45 lakhs. 

PKL Auction 2024: Who is Bhavani Rajput, the raider bought by UP Yoddhas for Rs. 45 lakh?

Bhavani Rajput was bought by UP Yoddhas for Rs. 45 lakh on Friday during the second day of the Pro Kabaddi League 2024 Auction in Mumbai.

Bhavani Rajput might be the next big sale!!!

Rohit Kumar remains unsold.

Deepak Narwal goes unsold.

Deepak Narwal comes to the auction table.

Monu goes to Gujarat Giants for 14 lakhs. 

Monu can be the next big sale. 

In 100 matches, he has 109 raid points and 114 tackle points. 

Meetu is a Pirate now, he goes to Patna Pirates for 21.9 lakhs. 

Meetu might be the next sale among domestic raiders. 

Himanshu sold to Dabang Delhi for base price of 13 lakhs. 

Manjeet goes to Telugu Titans for 27 lakhs. He joins Pawan Sehrawat’s team. 

The young raider Manjeet might be the first sale after lunch break on day 2. 

Himanshu Singh joins the unsold list.

The auction resumes with domestic raider of category C. 

The auction resumes. 

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PKL Auction 2024: How much money does each franchise have left in its purse?

Here’s a look at the remaining money in the purse of all the 12 franchises ahead of the Pro Kabaddi League 2024 auction.

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PKL Auction 2024: Full list of sold and unsold players

A total of 118 players were picked during the Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) Season 11 auction, held in Mumbai on August 15 and 16.. Here is the complete list of the sold and unsold players.

It appears to a break in the auction. 

The action will resume shortly. Stay tuned for all the LIVE updates.

Praveen Thakur is sold to Bengal Warriorz for 13 lakhs.

Prashant Kumar Rathi is sold to Patna Pirates for 13 lakhs. 

Gaurav Chillar goes for his base price of Rs. 13 lakh to Dabang Delhi.

Sanjay is roped in by Haryana Steelers for Rs. 13.20 lakh.

Mayur Jagannath Kadam, a defender from Maharashtra, is bought by the Bengal Warriorz for Rs. 30.20 lakh.

Mayur Kadam could well be the next sale.

And yes, he is sold! Gujarat Giants buys Neeraj Kumar for Rs. 50 lakh.

Looks like franchises might be bidding for Neeraj Kumar. He is a defender, right-cover.

A series of unsold players after Deepak’s sale in the Category C of the domestic defenders list.

Deepak Rajender Singh goes to Patna Pirates for 50 lakhs. 

Deepak Rajender Singh on the table is attracting bids from the franchises. 

Arpit Saroha breaks the streak as he is sold to Jaipur Pink Panthers at 13 lakhs.

The unsold domestic defenders list grows yet again. 

This has not been a good noon for domestic defenders as all 12 teams has mostly looked ignore them so far. 

Experience right-corner Sunil also goes unsold. 

All domestic defenders are back, not going specific position wise.

Now the auction is moving to domestic left-covers. 

Now its time for domestic right-corner defenders. 

All of them went unsold for now. 

Monu, Harendra Kumar, Mohit Sehrawat, Ankit join the list. 

Veteran defender Surender Nada goes unsold. 

Sandeep Kumar Dhull is unsold.

Mahender Singh is sold to UP Yoddhas for 21.40 lakhs.

Mahender Singh on table.

The experienced left-cover is attracting bids. 

The veteran of 126 PKL matches has 295 tackle points. 

Harsh Lad goes unsold. 

Parvesh Bhainswal goes to U Mumba for 19.5 lakhs. 

Parvesh Bhainswal is attracting bids from various franchises. 

Indian international Parvesh Bhainswal is on the table at the moment. 

Himanshu Choudhary, Naveen and Devendra Gopal Joshi joins the list of unwanted players. 

Darpan goes unsold. 

Kiran Laxman Magar is unsold.

Aman is sold to defending champions Puneri Paltan for 13 lakhs.

This comes after several Indian defenders went unsold. 

Sunder is sold to Telugu Titans for 13 lakhs.

Former U Mumba skipper Surinder Singh goes unsold.

Surinder Singh on the table now

Thiyagarajan Yuvaraj goes to Patna Pirates for 13.10 lakhs on FBM.

Vishal Kushal goes unsold.

Akshay Kumar is unsold.

Sandeep Kandola goes unsold.

Sourav Gulia is unsold.

Aakash joins him. 

Nitesh Kumar is sold to Bengal Warriorz for 13 lakhs.

Gaurav Dahiya is unsold.

Rinku Narwal, Rahul Veeresh Nagavat joins him. 

Indian defenders of category C starts with Ankit, who goes unsold. 

Mohammad Tabish, B Y Someshwar, Mohit, Sajin Chandrasekar, Abdul Insamam S, Kuldeep Singh Gour, Harkirat Singh, Afjal Khan and P M Chethan join the list. 

Tarandeep Singh goes unsold and with him this category comes to an end. 

Sajin Chandrasekar is unsold.

After a flurry of unsold Indian all-rounders, including players like Nitin Dalal andMohit Balyan, Brijendra Singh Chaudhary goes to Dabang Delhi for 13 lakhs. 

Nitin Panwar is sold to Dabang Delhi for 20.10 lakhs.

The bidding war started amid confusion after the all-rounder was initially declaired unsold.

Nitin Rawal is sold to Bengaluru Bulls for 13 lakhs.

Tejas Maruti Patil, Ravinder, Omkar More, Ashish Sangwan, Rahul Khatik, Arkam Sheikh and Ran Singh join the list of unsold players. 

Narender Hooda, Vinod Kumar also joins the unwanted list for now. 

Rahul Gorakh Dhanawade is unsold.

Akshay Shivaji Ugade, Govind Gurjar and Binod Kumar Prasad are also unsold.

Gurdeep is sold to Patna Pirates for a whopping 59 lakhs. 

PKL Auction 2024: Gurdeep goes to Patna Pirates for Rs. 59 lakh

Gurdeep was bought by the Patna Pirates for Rs. 59 lakh on Friday during the second day of the Pro Kabaddi League 2024 Auction in Mumbai.

Gurdeep appears to be in high demand as franchises are going strong for his signature. 

Gurdeep is attracting bids from the franchises. 

The bidding war is on for the all-rounder. 

Deepak Niwas Hooda is unsold.

Sachin Narwal, joins the unwanted list alongside Ahmed Mustafa Enamdar and Bhoir Akshay Bharat.

Vikas Jaglan remains unsold.

Sandeep Narwal goes unsold.

Siddhesh Pingle, Ajinkya Rohidas Kapre and Shivansh Thakur remain unsold.

Sumit Kumar, Manoj Godwa K, Rajesh Narwal, Nehal B Sawal Desat, Ritik, Rohan Singh, Akash Prasher, and Sagar Kumar also joins the unwanted list. 

Auction Indian all-rounder of category C starts.

Chai-Ming Chang goes to Bengal Warriorz for the base price of 13 lakhs. 

Mohammad Baba Ali sold to Dabang Delhi for 13.5 lakhs. 

Md. Mijanur Rahman goes to Dabang Delhi for 13 lakhs.

He went unsold earlier. 

Mohammad Malak goes to Telugu Titans for base price of 13 lakhs. 

Earlier today, he went unsold. 

The auction resumes.

There is a small break for now at the auction.

Stay tuned for LIVE updates. 

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PKL Auction 2024: Full list of sold and unsold players

A total of 118 players were picked during the Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) Season 11 auction, held in Mumbai on August 15 and 16.. Here is the complete list of the sold and unsold players.

Akikazu Izum and Jyun Jie Li are unsold.

Mobin Nazari, Wu Fu Kai Jin, Chayaphon Kamunee and Piotr Pamulak also joins the unsold list.

Md. Mijanur Rahman and Tobius Kinyua Muriithi remains unsold.

Lal Mohar Yadav, Shoya Suzuki and Ali Tolaqani remain are also unsold. 

Hasan Balbool, Nestor Mariano Pascual and I Gede Jaya Guna are unsold. There appears to be break in the proceedings.

Kastumi Abe goes unsold.

Jang Kun Lee goes to Patna Pirates for 17.5 lakhs. 

PKL Auction 2024: Jang Kun Lee goes to Patna Pirates for Rs. 17.50 lakh, returns to India after four years

Jang Kun Lee was bought by the Patna Pirates on Friday for a price of Rs. 17.50 lakh during the second day of the Pro Kabaddi League Auction 2024 in Mumbai. This marked the raider’s return to India after four years.

Jang Kun Lee is on the table now.

Teams are bidding for the South Korean at the moment. 

Pramot Saising is sold to Bengaluru Bulls for 13 lakhs.

Allan Oduor Omondi, James Namaba Kamweti, Shahan Sha Mohammed, and Md. Rabiul Alam are unsold.

Ju Hwan Kim, Md. Sharif Miah and Ashan Mihiranga are unsold. 

Chai-Ming Chang is unsold.

Jong Hoon Choi remains unsold.

Raider Jong Hoon Choi is next. 

Heidarali Ekrami goes to UP Yoddhas for 19.10 lakhs. 

Heidarali Ekrami is next on the table. 

Teams are bidding for the defender at the moment. 

Felix Li is unsold.

Amin Ghorbani sold to U Mumba for 14 lakhs.

Amin Ghorbani is the next defender. 

Milad Jabbari goes to Telugu Titans for 13 lakhs.

Milad Jabbari is next on the table. 

Afshin Jafari goes unsold.

Vahid RezaEimehr goes to Gujarat Giants for 17.10 lakhs. 

Vahid RezaEimehr is next on the auction table. 

The defender is attracting bids from various teams. 

Mohammadreza Kaboudrahangi goes to UP Yoddhas for 25 lakhs. 

Iranian defender Mohammadreza Kaboudrahangi is on the table at the moment. 

It appears teams are bidding for the defender with a base price of 13 lakhs. 

Krzysztof Sawicki remains unsold for now.

Asadujjaman Howlader goes unsold.

Defender Asadujjaman Howlader is the next player. 

Reuben Mburu Njuguna goes unsold.

Mohammad Baba Ali goes unsold.

Auction proceedings have come to a short break. Take a look at how the morning has gone for the overseas allrounders and defenders so far. 

Iran has scored big this morning, with all the chosen players coming from the nation - Nabibakhsh, Bastami, Safaghi, Hadi and Noroozi. 

Ali Hadi goes to Puneri Paltan for 14.10 Lakh 

Hosea Muriuki Muthee goes unsold

Mohammad Liton Ali goes unsold 

Amirhossein Bastami - taking a lot of time here - retained for 15.10 Lakh by Tamil Thalaivas

Ramu Tamatta from Nepal is the first to be called. UNSOLD.

Amir Hassan Noroozi goes to Puneri Paltan for 13.40 Lakh

AmThanushan Laxmamohan goes unsold

Daniel Omondi Odhiambo goes unsold 

Mohammad Esmaeil Nabibakhsh stays at Gujarat Giants FBM 13.60 lakh

Stats in PKL: 79 PKL games, 215 raid points, 79 tackle points, 1 high 5, 2 super 10s 

Ganesh Parki goes unsold

Moein Safaghi goes to Tamil Thalaivas for 13 Lakh

Samuel Wanjala Wafula goes unsold 

Islam Mohammad Jewel goes unsold 

Komang Wahyu Brahmasta goes unsold 

Amir Hossein Mohammadmaleki goes unsold

Helvic Simuyu Wanjala goes unsold

Etsuki Manita goes unsold 

Rodgers Omondi Atieno goes unsold

Arash Akbari goes unsold

Remember, day 2 isn’t televised so you can catch up with all the highlights from a key day of purchasing here on Sportstar. 

Talented South Korean raider Jang Kun-Lee is believed to have registered for the auction exercise this year. Should he be selected, then it will mark his return to the PKL mat after 2019. 

Here are the players who went unsold on day 1:

Visvanth V- 20 lakh- All-rounder 

Rohit Gulia- 20 lakh- All-rounder 

Vishal Bhardwaj -20 lakh- Defender 

Vaibhav Garje- 20 lakh - Defender- Right Cover

Vishal Bharadwaj went unsold last year on day 1 of the auction too but was picked on the second day when teams had a better idea on how to use monetary resources remaining. He will hope for an encore. 

There’s still plenty of action left for day 2, in fact teams which ace day 2 tend to be more stable through their seasons. This is when teams pick young players, rope in veterans who may still have something to offer and bring in valuable experience to squads.

Rahul Chaudhari is one of them. He was picked on day 2 last season as well and played an impact sub type role for Jaipur in their campaign last season. 

Vikash Kandola, who emerged as a solid raider for Haryana Steelers a few seasons ago, has fallen off the radar due to inconsistent performances in an age where raiding as a skill is thriving in Indian kabaddi. 

Players like Neeraj Narwal, Monu Goyat, V Ajith Kumar, Chandran Ranjit, Nitin Tomar, Nitesh, Rinku Narwal, Rohit Kumar - all PKL mainstays over the past few seasons, also find themselves in the auction pool, waiting for a side to pick them. 

It says a lot about the kind of talent Mohammadreza Shadloui Chiyaneh is to see him stand out in a top buys list that’s raider dominated. He has had three stunning seasons in the Pro Kabaddi league so far, two with Patna Pirates and one with Puneri Paltan. He’s won the league with the Pune-based franchise and has consistently finished among the top three defenders of the season each year. 

Raider Sachin Tanwar was the top buy on day 1 of the auction for the eleventh season of the Pro Kabaddi League here on Thursday. 

The Indian mainstay was picked by Tamil Thalaivas for a whopping Rs. 2.15 crore. A part of Patna Pirates for multiple seasons so far, Sachin was known for his prowess in the third raid and as a reliable striking option. 

He pipped Iranian star Mohammadreza Shadloui Chiyaneh, who was picked by Haryana Steelers for Rs. 2.07 crore. The allrounder powered Puneri Paltan to its maiden PKL title last season. 

Indian captain Pawan Sehrawat, the most expensive player in PKL history (who went for a record Rs. 2.61 crore last season) couldn’t replicate his luck this time around and was retained by Telugu Titans who used its final bid match option to keep the raider for Rs. 1.725 crore. 

Bharat Hooda (to UP Yoddhas), Maninder Singh (retained by Bengal Warriorz), Ajinkya Pawar (to Bengaluru Bulls) and Sunil Malik (to U Mumba) were the others to manage more than a crore. 

Surprisingly, veteran Iranian defender and two-time PKL winner Fazel Atrachali was snapped up for a bargain of just Rs. 50 Lakh by Bengal Warriorz. Similarly, Pardeep Narwal too saw a fall in value going for a modest Rs. 70 Lakh to the Bulls. 

Hello and welcome to the live coverage of Day 2 of the Pro Kabaddi League auction ahead of season XI. Several big names will go under the hammer in Mumbai as all 12 franchises are looking to round out their squads for the eleventh season of the league.