Veteran Kabaddi player Dharmaraj Cheralathan will be one of the highlight players for the upcoming 69th All India Railway Men's Kabaddi Championship, Gorakhpur. The tournament will get underway from 19th December and go on till the 22nd of December 2019. Organized by North Eastern Railways at their headquarters in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, the four-day tournament will see 14 railway divisions compete against each other to lay their hands on the prestigious trophy.

Cheralathan is a part of the South Central Railway Sports Association and will be leading the team yet again. They are the defending champion of the tournament and would be eager to lift the trophy one more time. South Central Railway announced their 12 man squad for the tournament. Here is a list of all the players.

1. D. Cheralathan
2. S. K. Ameer
3. Pradeep
4. Selvamani
5. G. Jeeva 
6. Mallikarjun
7. Anki Reddy
8. Siddharth Desai
9. Monu
10. Kuldeep Singh
11. Ravi
12. P. Satish

The team will also feature Siddharth Desai, the Telugu Titan's player for the Pro Kabaddi. Desai was named the Pro Kabaddi Best Debutant for the 2018 season while playing for U Mumba. Eventually, he was bought by Telugu Titans in the next season and became the costliest player in the history of PKL. He finished the Pro Kabaddi 2019 as the highest raid point scorer for Telugu Titans in a single season when he went on to pick 217 points.

UP Yoddha raider Shrikant Jadhav will be playing for the Central Railway Sports Association this year. They had finished as the semifinalists last year after they lost to North Eastern Railway 38-18. Have a look at the full squad:

1. Shrikant Jadhav
2. Viraj Landge
3. Amir Dhumal
4. Gurvinder Singh
5. Sandeep Dhull
6. Ashish Kumar
7. Ganesh Bodke
8. Rohit Parte
9. Vinod Atyalkar
10. Balbir Singh 
11. Suraj Bansode
12. Paresh Chavan
13. Sudhir Varkhade

Ranapratap Tiwari has been named the coach while Prakash Shivtarkar is the assistant coach for the team.

The third team to participate in the tournament is the Rail Wheel Factory, Yelahanka. They had failed to move forward after the league stage in the last edition of the tournament and would be looking to achieve a better result this year. Here is the full team for the tournament:

1. Venkatesha H (Captain)
2. Vitttal Meti
3. Hareesh B. R. 
4. Vinod Kumar M.
5. S. P. Anand
6. Ravinandana G. M.
7. Anil S. Nalavade
8. Aniket Pevekar
9. Mahatesh Rathod
10. Thinesh Raja J.
11. Sacchin
12. Harshavardhan H. A.

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