PKL 2024: The Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) season 11 has started and the excitement is getting fever-high. All the Teams have built a strong squad to win the coveted PKL title this year and one such team is Bengal Warriors. They failed to qualify for the playoffs in PKL 10 but for the upcoming season, Bengal looks like one of the title contenders.
Bengal Warriors had started preparing for the PKL 11 way before, in July 2024 they announced a new coaching setup. The franchise has promoted assistant coach Prashant Surve to the head coach role and added Praveen Yadav as assistant coach.
Under the leadership of new coaches, Bengal has strategically retained the previous season’s star performers raider Nitin Kumar and defender Aditya Shinde. Bengal bought back Maninder Singh using FBM card at the PKL 11 auction. They have also added some valuable players like Nitesh and Fazel Atrachali through the auction, here take a look.
PKL 2024: Bengal Warriors full squad
S.NoNameRetained/BoughtRolePrice1Nitin DhankarElite Retained PlayersRaider37.23 L2Vishwas GowdaElite Retained PlayersRaider15.60 L3Maharudra GarjeExisting New Young PlayersRaider10.63 L4Sushil KambrekarNew Young Player (NYP)Raider10.63 L5Dipak ShindeExisting New Young PlayersRight Corner Defender10.63 L6Deep KumarNew Young Player (NYP)Cover Defender10.63 L7Aditya ShindeExisting New Young PlayersLeft Corner Defender10.63 L8Yash MalikNew Young Player (NYP)Left Corner Defender10.63 L9Shreyas UmbardandExisting New Young PlayersCover Defender10.63 L10Manjeet ChoudharyNew Young Player (NYP)Cover Defender10.63 L11Fazel AtrachaliBoughtDefender50 L12Maninder SinghBoughtRaider1.15 Cr13Chai-Ming ChangBoughtRaider13 L14Nitesh KumarBoughtDefender13 L15Mayur KadamBoughtCover Defender30.20 L16Praveen ThakurBoughtCover Defender13 L17Sambhaji WabaleBoughtCover Defender12.90 L18Hem RajBoughtDefender9 L19Akash B ChavhanBoughtRaider9 L20Arjun RathiBoughtRaider41 L21Vaibhav GarjeBoughtDefender20 L22Sagar KumarBoughtAll Rounder13 L23Pranay RaneBoughtRaider13 L
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