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PKL 2024: Full squad of Bengal Warriors for PKL 11

The Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) season 11 is about to start and the excitement is getting fever-high. 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.

Full squad of Bengal Warriors for PKL 11

S.No Name Retained/Bought Role Price
1 Nitin Dhankar Elite Retained Players Raider 37.23 L
2 Vishwas Gowda Elite Retained Players Raider 15.60 L
3 Maharudra Garje Existing New Young Players Raider 10.63 L
4 Sushil Kambrekar New Young Player (NYP) Raider 10.63 L
5 Dipak Shinde Existing New Young Players Right Corner Defender 10.63 L
6 Deep Kumar New Young Player (NYP) Cover Defender 10.63 L
7 Aditya Shinde Existing New Young Players Left Corner Defender 10.63 L
8 Yash Malik New Young Player (NYP) Left Corner Defender 10.63 L
9 Shreyas Umbardand Existing New Young Players Cover Defender 10.63 L
10 Manjeet Choudhary New Young Player (NYP) Cover Defender 10.63 L
11 Fazel Atrachali Bought Defender 50 L
12 Maninder Singh Bought Raider 1.15 Cr
13

Chai-Ming Chang

Bought Raider 13 L
14

Nitesh Kumar

Bought Defender 13 L
15 Mayur Kadam Bought Cover Defender 30.20 L
16 Praveen Thakur Bought Cover Defender 13 L
17

Sambhaji Wabale

Bought Cover Defender 12.90 L
18

Hem Raj

Bought Defender 9 L
19

Akash B Chavhan

Bought Raider 9 L
20 Arjun Rathi Bought Raider 41 L
21

Vaibhav Garje

Bought Defender 20 L
22

Sagar Kumar

Bought All Rounder 13 L
23 Pranay Rane Bought Raider 13 L

 

In PKL 10, the Bengal Warriors finished in 7th position and failed to qualify for the playoffs. But in PKL 11 they have built a strong team and look forward to clinching the title for the second time.