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

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 purchase 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.

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