Heena Sharma Blog

In Match 21 of Pro Kabaddi 2019 , Telugu Titans will take on UP Yoddha at Sardar Vallabbhai Indoor Stadium in Mumbai. In their previous match, Yoddha came back from a two-match slump as acting captain Rishank Devadiga controlled his team brilliantly. On the other hand, the Titans have failed to make any impression so far in PKL 2019 despite having the likes of the Desai brothers – Siddharth and Suraj. The Telugu Titans defence had a very bad start in Pro Kabaddi 2019. The Titans have managed to score an average of eight tackle points per match in PKL 7 so far. In the last season, after four matches, the Telugu Titans had scored an average of 14.3 tackle points. One of the main reasons for the poor start to this season has been that the team’s star defenders, captain Abozar Mighani and Vishal Bhardwaj, have not been clicking. No other defender in Pro Kabaddi history has tackled Siddharth Desai as much as Nitesh Kumar (five successful tackles). With Siddharth Desai out of sorts at...

Haryana Steelers made the highest bid of the season, and in the league so far, for Monu Goyat at Rs 15.1 million Companies News : The second day of the   Pro Kabaddi player auctions   on Thursday continued to see heavy bidding from the 12 franchisees as they built their Teams. While none of the bids went as high as on Wednesday, there were some closely fought ones. The costliest player of the day was Prashant Kumar Rai, acquired by UP Yoddhas for Rs 7.9 million. The second highest bid was Rs 6.12 million by Dabang Delhi, for acquiring Chandran Ranjit. Of the 422 players available in the auction, a total of 200 were sold at varying prices. The 12 franchisees spent close to Rs 460 million on player acquisition in all, the highest spending coming from   Telugu Titans.   They acquired 18 players for Rs 39.85 million. Each team had a salary purse of Rs 40 million for player acquisition, including the money spent on retaining players. With this, kab...