Most Expensive Player in Pro Kabaddi 10 - Pro Kabaddi 2023 Auction

The Pro Kabbadi Season 10 auction is all set to be held on the 9th and 10th of October. At the end of the most awaited auction, PKL 10 will get the name of its most expensive player in Pro Kabaddi 2023.

So far, from the highlights of the first day of the auction, we have our record-breaker, Pawan Kumar Sehrawat, who fetched a bid worth 2.65 crore from Telugu Titans.

The Next Season of Pro Kabaddi 10, or PKL to start very soon, The Schedule of Pro Kabaddi to be announced very soon. To learn more about the auction updates of Pro Kabaddi 2023, please read ahead.

Pro Kabaddi 2023 Top Buys (First Day) – PKL 10

As we can see, Pawan Kumar Sehrawat is holding his position tight as the most expensive player in Pro Kabaddi. In the last season of PKL (Season 9), Pawan secured the top spot for the highest bid raider with a price value of 2.26 Crore from Tali Thalaivas. The history repeats itself, as Pawan Kumar receives a bid amount of 2.605 crore from Telugu Titans. Thus, he became the most expensive player in Pro Kabaddi 2023.

However, Pawan Kumar was not the first player to break his last year’s record of highest bid raider. Mohammadreza Shadloui Chiyaneh was the one who sold first on the first auction day. Puneri Paltan put a record-breaking investment of INR 2.35 Crores on Shadloui to bring him into the team. Other top players who made their way into the club of Crorepatis are Maninder Singh, with a bidding amount of 2.12 Crores from Bengal Warriors, Fazel Atrachali, with a bid amount of 1.60 Crores from Gujarat Giants, and Siddharth Desai, with 1 Crore bid from Haryana Steelers.

Pro Kabaddi 2023 Auction Dates, Time, Venue

The PKL 10-player auctions will take place over the course of two days, and each team will now have access to a total pay budget of Rs 5 crore rather than the previous cap of Rs 4.4 crore.

The Pro Kabaddi Season 10 organizers, Mashal Sports, released the updated dates for the Season 10 Player Auction, considering the continuing preparations of the Indian Kabaddi team for the Asian Games. Earlier, the dates were the 8th and 9th of November, which shifted to the 9th and 10th of October.

The Pro Kabaddi 2023 auction will be live-streamed on Disney+Hotstar from Mumbai on October 9th and 10th at 8:15 P.M.

Pro Kabaddi League 2023 Players Details

Considering the League Player Policy for the season, the PKL teams used their right to keep players from their respective PKL Season 9 clubs in August 2023.

Elite Retained Players (ERP), Retained Young Players (RYP), and Existing New Young Players (ENYP) were the three broad categories of players that the franchises could choose to keep.

From the Season 9 players list, 84 players were kept, including 22 from the ERP category, 24 from RYP, and 38 from ENYP. Still, the teams are left with at least 91 places, which will be filled during the two-day auction.

The bidding war ought to witness the player division into four different groups, namely A, B, C, and D. The base price for category A players is 30 Lakh, for category B players, it is 20 Lakh, for C, it is 13 Lakh, and for D, it is 9 Lakh.

Here’s the complete list of players who were sold on the first day of the auction (9th of October).

Player	Bid Amount	Team	Category
Pawan Sehrawat	2.60 Crore	Telugu Titans	B
Mohammadreza Shaloui Chinayeh	2.35 Crore	Puneri Paltan	A
Maninder Singh	2.12 Crore	Bengal Warriors	A
Fazel Atrachali	1.60 Crore	Gujarat Giants	A
Siddarth Desai	1 Crore	Haryana Steelers	B
Ashu Malik	96.25 Lakh	Dabang Delhi	B
Meetu	93 Lakh	Dabang Delhi	B
Manjeet	92 Lakh	Patna Pirates	A
Vijay Malik	85 Lakh	UP Yoddhas	A
Guman Singh	85 Lakh	U Mumba	B
Chandran Ranjit	62 Lakh	Haryana Steelers	B
Rohit Gulia	58.50 Lakh	Gujarat Titans	A
Vikash Kandola	55.25 Lakh	Bengaluru Bulls	B
Mahender Singh	40.25 Lakh	U Mumba	B
Shrikant Jadhav	35.35 Lakh	Bengal Warriors	B
Shubham Shinde	32.25 Lakh	Bengal Warriors	B
Nitin Rawal	30 Lakh	Bengal Warriors	B
Sombir	26.25 Lakh	Gujarat Giants	B
Md. Esmaeil	22 Lakh	Gujarat Giants	B
Arkam Shaikh	20.25 Lakh	Gujarat Giants	B
Girish Ernak	20 Lakh	U Mumba	B
Vishal	20 Lakh	Bengaluru Bulls	B
Sunil	20 Lakh	Dabang Delhi	B

Here’s the complete list of players sold on the auction’s second day (10th of October).

Player	Bid Amount	Team	Category
Amirmohammad Zafardanesh	68 Lakh	U Mumba	C
Rahul Sethpal	40.7 Lakh	Haryana Steelers	C
Nitin Kumar	32.20 Lakh	Bengal Warriors	D
Masanamuthu Lakshnanan	32.20 Lakh	Tamil Thalaivas	D
Ankit	31.50 Lakh	Patna Pirates	D
Amirhossein Bastami	30 Lakh	Tamil Thalaivas	C
Himanshu Singh	25 Lakh	Tamil Thalaivas	C
Monu	24.10 Lakh	Bengaluru Bulls	C
Md. Kaboudrahangi	19.20 Lakh	Tamil Thalaivas	C
Ponparthiban Subramanian	19.20 Lakh	Bengaluru Bulls	C
Satish Kanan	18.10 Lakh	Tamil Thalaivas	D
Krishan	17.20 Lakh	Patna Pirates	C
Vahid Rezaeimehr	16.60 Lakh	Puneri Paltan	C
Alireza Mirzaeian	16.10 Lakh	U Mumba	C
Rohit	16 Lakh	Patna Pirates	C
Deepak Singh	15.70 Lakh	Gujarat Giants	C
Surjeet Singh	14.20 Lakh	Bengaluru Bulls	C
Abhishek Singh	14 Lakh	Bengaluru Bulls	C
Ravi Kumar	13.30 Lakh	Guarat Giants	C
Hamid Nader	13 Lakh	Telugu Titans	C
Samuel Wafala	13 Lakh	U.P. Yoddhas	C
Md. Liton Ali	13 Lakh	Bengaluru Bulls	C
Felix Li	13 Lakh	Dabang Delhi	C
Milad Jabbari	13 Lakh	Telugu Titans	C
Yuvraj Pandeya	13 Lakh	Dabang Delhi	C
Hasan Balbool	13 Lakh	Haryana Steelers	C
Ghanshyam Magar	13 Lakh	Haryana Steelers	C
Chai-Ming Chang	13 Lakh	Bengal Warriors	C
Amir Hossein Mohammadmaleki	13 Lakh	Jaipur Pink Panthers	C
Piotr Pamulak	13 Lakh	Bengaluru Bulls	C
Zheng-Wei Chen	13 Lakh	Patna Pirates	C
Aslam Thambi	13 Lakh	Bengal Warriors	C
Daniel Odhiambo	13 Lakh	Patna Pirates	C
Helvic Wanjala	13 Lakh	UP Yoddhas	C
Shankar Gadai	13 Lakh	Telugu Titans	C
Sajin Chandrasekar	13 Lakh	Patna Pirates	C
Ran Singh	13 Lakh	Bengaluru Bulls	C
Akshay Bharat	13 Lakh	Bengal Warriors	C
Vikas Jaglan	13 Lakh	Gujarat Giants	C
Sourav Gulia	13 Lakh	Gujarat Giants	C
Akshay Kumar	13 Lakh	Bengal Warriors	C
Harendra Kumar	13 Lakh	UP Yoddhas	C
Lucky Sharma	13 Lakh	Jaipur Pink Panthers	C
Nitin Chandel	13 Lakh	Dabang Delhi	C
Lavish	13 Lakh	Jaipur Pink Panthers	C
Banty	13 Lakh	Bengaluru Bulls	C
Akshay Bodake	13 Lakh	Bengal Warriors	C
More G B	13 Lakh	Gujarat Giants	C
Gulveer Singh	13 Lakh	U.P. Yoddhas	C
Omkar	9 Lakh	Telugu Titans	D
Akash Prasher	9 Lakh	Dabang Delhi	D
Ritik	9 Lakh	Tamil Thalaivas	D
Jitender Yadav	9 Lakh	Gujarat Giants	D
Ahmed Enamdar	9 Lakh	Puneri Paltan	D
Gaurav Dahiya	9 Lakh	Telugu Titans	D
Ishwar	9 Lakh	Puneri Paltan	D
Ankit	9 Lakh	Bengaluru Bulls	D
Nitesh	9 Lakh	Gujarat Giants	D
Himanshu Chaudhary	9 Lakh	Haryana Steelers	D
Deepak Kumar	9 Lakh	Patna Pirates	D
Ravindra Chauhan	9 Lakh	Haryana Steelers	D
Mohit	9 Lakh	Dabang Delhi	D
Mahendra Choudhary	9 Lakh	Patna Pirates	D
Rohit Yadav	9 Lakh	U Mumba	D
Shashank B	9 Lakh	Jaipur Pink Panthers	D
Jagdeep	9 Lakh	Gujarat Giants	D
Kunal	9 Lakh	U Mumba	D

Surprisingly, there are a few names on the unsold players list that came as a shock to the Pro Kabaddi League fans. Here’s the complete list of players who remained unsold during the auction.

Sandeep Narwal
Deepak Niwas Hooda
Asish
Sachin Narwal
Gurdeep
Ajinkya Kapre
Vishal Bhardwaj
Monu Goyat
Vishal Mane
Rohit Kumar

Players List of Teams in PKL 10

A minimum of 18 and a maximum of 25 players per squad are allowed for the entire season. Here is the final team formation and completed players list of the 12 participating PKL Teams.

PKL 10 Teams	Retained Players	Buys	Purse Left (In INR)
Bengal Warriors	Vaibhav Bhausaheb Garje R Guhan Suyon Baban Gaikar Prashant Kumar	Maninder Singh Nitin Rawal Shubham Shinde Shrikant Jadhav Chai-Ming Chang Aslam Thambi Bhoir Akshay Bharat Akshay Kumar Akshay Bodake Nitin Kumar	1.13 Crore
Bengaluru Bulls	Neeraj Narwal Bharat Saurabh Nandal Yash Hooda	Vishal Vikash Khandola Sachin Narwal Md. Liton Ali Piotr Pamulak Ran Singh Ponparthiban Subramanian Banty Surjeet Singh Monu Anket Sushil Abhishek Singh Ankit Rakshith Rohit Kumar	2.24 Crore
Dabang Delhi	Naveen Kumar Vijay Manjeet Ashish Narwal Suraj Panwar	Sunil Ashu Malik Meetu Vishal Bhardwaj Felix Li Yuvraj Pandeya Nitin Chandel Balasaheb Shahaji Jadhav Akash Prasher Vikrant Mohit	1.03 Crore
Gujarat Giants	Manuj Sonu Rakesh Rohan Singh Parteek Dahiya	Fazel Atrachali Rohit Gulia Mohammad Nabibakhsh Arkam Shaikh Sombir Vikas Jaglan Sourav Gulia Deepak Singh Ravi Kumar More G B Balaji D Jitender Yadav Nitesh Jagdeep	1.15 Crore
Haryana Steelers	K Prapanjan Vinay Jaideep Mohit Naveen Monu Harsh Sunny	Siddharth Desai Chandran Ranjit Ashish Hasan Balbool Ghanshyam Magar Rahul Sethpal Mohit Himanshu Choudhary Ravindra Chouhan	1.51 Crore
Jaipur Pink Panthers	Sunil Kumar Arjun Deshwal Ajith Kumar V Reza Mirbhageri Bhavani Rajput Sahul Kumar Ankush Abhishek KS Ashish Devank	Sumit Lucky Sharma Lavish Navneet Rahul Chaudhari Amir Hossein Mohammadmaleki Shashank B	87.95 Lakh
Patna Pirates	Sachin Neeraj Kumar Manish Thiyagarajan Yuvaraj Naveen Sharma Ranjit Venkatramana Naik Anuj Kumar	Manjeet Ankit Krishan Dhull Rohit Sajin C Rakesh Narwal Daniel Odhiambo Zheng Wei Chen Sanjay Mahendra Choudhary Sandeep Kumar Deepak	92 Lakh
Puneri Paltan	Abhinesh Nadarajan Gaurav Khatri Sanket Sawant Pankaj Mohite Aslam Inamdar Mohit Goyat Akash Shinde Badal Singh Aditya Shinde	Mohammadreza Shadloui Chiyaneh Vahid Rozaeinehr Ahmed Mustafa Enamdar Ishwar Hardeep	45.71 Lakh
Tamil Thalaivas	Ajinkya Pawar Sagar Himanshu M Abhishek Sahil Mohit Aashish Narender Himanshu Jatin	Amirhossein Bastami Md. Kaboudrahangi Himanshu Singh Selvamani K Ritik Masanamuthu Lakshnanan Satish Kannan	2.43 Crore
Telugu Titans	Parvesh Bhainswal Rajnish Mohit Nitin Vijay	Pawan Sehrawat Hamid Nader Milad Jabbari Shankar Gadai Omkar R More Gaurav Dahiya Ajit Pandurang Pawar Mohit Robin Chaudhary	71.127 Crore
U Mumba	Surinder Singh Jai Bhagwan Rinku Heidarali Ekrami Shivam Shivansh Takur Pranay Vinay Rane Rupesh Sachin	Girish Maruti Ernak Mahender Singh Guman Singh Amirmohammad Zafardanesh Alireza Mirzaeian Visvanath V Saurav Parthe Rohit Yadav Kunal	1.24 Crore
UP Yoddhas	Pardeep Narwal Nitesh Kumar Sumit Ashu Singh Surender Gill Anil Kumar Mahipal	Vijay Malik Gurdeep Samuel Wafula Helvic Wanjala Harendra Kumar Gulveer Singh Nitin Panwar Kiran Laxman Magar	1.084 Crore

Conclusion

Over the past nine years, the Pro Kabaddi League has given us some unforgettable Pro Kabaddi moments, and yet again, India’s raw sport is back with its Season 10. Since auctions for the Pro Kabaddi Season 10 will end on the 10th of October, it will set the ground for the commencement of the Pro Kabaddi League 2023. To get notifications of all the recent updates on PKL 10, stay connected with us!

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