Mohit Chhillar and Sandeep Narwal remained the most expensive customers during the Pro Kabaddi season 4 auction in Mumbai on Friday. While Mohit moved to Bengaluru Bulls for a whopping Rs. 53 lakh, Sandeep was bagged by Telugu Titans for Rs. 45.5 lakh.
A total of 96 players from a list of 198 players were bought by the eight Pro Kabaddi League franchisees, making the overall business of the day reach the figure of Rs. 12.82 crore. It was announced that from 2016, the fierce and entertaining kabaddi league would be featured biannually.
While Season 3 saw Patna Pirates lift the title in March, it was announced that Season 4 will start on June 25.
Mohit, who is a corner defender, remained a key player of U Mumba over the previous seasons. His base price in the Pro Kabaddi auction was a mere Rs. 12 lakh, but that didn't prevent the other teams from launching a bidding war to get their hands on the player.
Each team had the option of retaining two players. Pro Kabaddi 2015 champions U Mumba retained their skipper Anup Kumar and Rishank Devadiga, while Dabang Delhi retained star raider Kashiling Adake and Selvamani K.
Defending champions Patna Pirates retained Pardeep Narwal and Rajesh Mondal, while Rahul Chaudhari and Sukesh Hegde were retained by Telugu Titans.
Inaugural season champions Jaipur Pink Panthers retained Rajesh Narwal and Jasvir Singh, while Bengal Warriors, who reached the last four for the first time last season, retained Nilesh Shinde and Girish Maruti Ernak.
Pawan Kumar and Ashish Kumar, meanwhile, will once again play for Bengaluru Bulls.
Pro Kabaddi season 4: Final list of players
Bengal Warriors - Simon Kibura, Jang Kun Lee (retained for Rs. 22 lakh), Amit Chhillar, Nitin Madane, Ravi Dalal, Shrikant Jadav, Surjeet Narwal, Vishal Mane, Mahendra Rajput, Chaminda RS, C Arun, Ravi Kumar, Ravindra Ramesh, Suyog Rajapkar, Yogesh Sawant, Sushil Bhosle.
Bengaluru Bulls - Sanjay Shreshtha, Sinotharan K, Jeeva Gopal, Manoj Kumar, Mohit Chhillar, Surender Nada, Pawan Kumar, Deepak Dahiya, Amit Rathi, Yogesh Hooda, Rohit Baliyan, Rahul Kumar, Ravinder Kumar, Nicholas George, Sumit Singh, Ajay Singh, Harish Naik.
Dabang Delhi - Bhupender Singh, Ram Kumar Sah, Prashant Chavan, D Gopu, Prashant Rai, Suresh Kumar, Sachin S, Deepak Narwal, Mehraj Sheykh, Umesh Mhatre, Hadi Tajik, Phonchoo Tin, Sanket Chavan, Vikash K, Manjeet.
Jaipur Pink Panthers - Masayuki S, Wei Yang, Mahipal Narwal, Rohit Rana, Shabeer Bapu, Shrikant Tewthia, Ran Singh, Amit Hooda, Tushar Patil, Lo Chia Wei, Parvesh B, Amit Nagar, Parveen Narwal.
Patna Pirates - Dharmaraj C, Mahesh Goud, Bajirao Hodage, Deepak Dhull, Vijin T, Sunny, Vinoth Paulyas, Sanjay Kumar, Hadi Oshtorak, Kuldeep Singh, Fazel Atrachali, Abolfazel M, Sunil Kumar.
Puneri Paltan - Ketut Ariana, Ajay Thakur, Gurpreet Singh, Somvir S, Parmod Narwal, Ravinder Pahal, Preetam Chhillar, Sonu Narwal, Joginder Narwal, Joy Bahadur, Anil Nimbolkar, Khomsan T, Virender Chhillar, Akshay Jadhav, Dalbir.
Telugu Titans - Jasmeer Gulia, Rupesh Tomar, Sandeep Narwal, Vinoth Kumar, Mohammad M, Vinod Kumar, K Prapanjan, S Wanhkede, Sandeep Dhull, Nilesh Salunke, Akhlaq Hussain, Muhammad Rizwan, Sagar Krishna, Vishal Bharadwaj, Sombir, Athul.
U Mumba - Gurvinder Singh, Jeeva Kumar (retained for Rs. 40 lakh), Rakesh Kumar, Mohd Munshi, Suresu Kumar, Vikas Kale, Sunil Kumar, Manoj Dhull, Surendra Singh, Mohd Hossain, Mohd Tuhin, Sourav V, Nitin Kumar.
