Pro Kabaddi League auction 2019: While a large part of the nation was busy watching the Indian Premier League on Monday evening, kabaddi players set whopping new benchmarks by raking in impressive amounts of money at the 2019 auction. Notably, last season's breakthrough sensation Siddharth Desai was bought by Telugu Titans for a whopping Rs 1.45 crore, making him the most expensive player of this season while Nitin Tomar was retained by Puneri Paltan for Rs 1.20 crore. Rahul Chaudhari finally parted ways with Telugu Titans and joined Tamil Thalaivas for Rs 94 lakh to form a formidable raiding duo with his national captain Ajay Thakur. The other big grab of the day was 'The Beast' Sandeep Narwal who was sold to U Mumba for Rs 89 lakh.

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Among the overseas stars, Iran's Abozar Mighani started a bidding war between Dabang Delhi and Bengal Warriors before Telugu Titans exercised their Final Bid Match (FBM) right to rope him in for Rs 75 lakh. His Iranian teammate Mohammad Nabibaksh was sold to Bengal Warriors for Rs 77.75 lakh, making him the costliest foreign recruit this season. The South Korean raider Jang Kun Lee who played for Patna Pirates for last six seasons, went to Patna Pirates to join Pardeep Narwal for Rs 40 lakh.

Here is the full list of players sold on day 1 of Pro Kabaddi League auction 2019:

Bengal Warriors

Elite Retained Players — Baldev Singh, Maninder Singh
Retained Young Players — Adarsh T, Ravindra Kumawat
New Young Players — Sahil
Mohammad Nabibakhsh — Rs 77.75 lakh
Jeeva Kumar — Rs 31 lakh
Rinku Narwal — Rs 20 lakh
Mohammad Taghi — Rs 15.5 lakh

Bengaluru Bulls

Elite Retained Players — Rohit Kumar, Pawan Kumar Sehrawat, Ashish Kumar
Retained Young Players — Amit Sheoran, Sumit Singh
New Young Players — Mohit Sehrawat, Banty
Mahender Singh — Rs 80 lakh
Sanjay Shreshtha — Rs 10 lakh
Lal Mohar Yadav — Rs 10 lakh

Dabang Delhi KC

Retained players — Meraj Sheykh, Joginder Narwal
Chandran Ranjit — Rs 70 lakh
Ravinder Pahal — Rs 61 lakh
Vijay Malik — Rs 41 lakh
Vishal Mane — Rs 28.5 lakh
Saeed Ghaffari — Rs 16.5 lakh

Gujarat Fortunegiants

Elite Retained Players — Sachin Tanwar, Sunil Kumar
Retained Young Players — Lalit Chaudhary, Rohit Gulia
Parvesh Bhainswal — Rs 75 lakh
Rituraj Koravi — Rs 30.5 lakh
Vinod Kumar — Rs 26 lakh
Abolfazl Maghsoudloumahali — Rs 15.75 lakh

Haryana Steelers

Elite Retained Players — Kuldeep Singh, Vikash Khandola
New Young Players — Vinay
Prashanth Kumar Rai — Rs 77 lakh
Dharmaraj Cheralathan — Rs 38.5 lakh
Ravi Kumar — Rs 20 lakh
Amir Mohammad Maleki — Rs 12.5 lakh
Tim Phonchoo — Rs 10 lakh

Jaipur Pink Panthers

Elite Retained Players — Deepak Niwas Hooda, Sandeep Kumar Dhull
Retained Young Players — Ajinkya Pawar, Lokesh Kaushik
New Young Players — Pavan TR, Sachin Narwal, Sushil Gulia
Amit Hooda — Rs 53 lakh
Deepak Narwal — Rs 30.5 lakh
Nilesh Salunke — Rs 23.5 lakh
Sunil Siddhgawali — Rs 20 lakh
Dong Gyu Kim — Rs 10 lakh
Malinda Chaturanga — Rs 10 lakh

Patna Pirates

Elite Retained Players — Pardeep Narwal, Vikas Jaglan, Jawahar Dagar
New Young Players — Mohit
Surender Nada — Rs 77 lakh
Jang Kun Lee — Rs 40 lakh
Mohammad Maghsoudlou — Rs 35 lakh
Jaideep — Rs 35 lakh
Hadi Oshtorak — Rs 16 lakh

Puneri Paltan

Retained players — None
Nitin Tomar — Rs 1.20 crore
Surjeet Singh — Rs 56 lakh
Girish Maruti Ernak — Rs 33 lakh
Pawan Kumar — Rs 20 lakh
Emad Sedaghat — Rs 11.25 lakh
Hadi Tijak — Rs 10 lakh

Tamil Thalaivas

Elite Retained Players — Ajay Thakur, Manjeet Chhillar, Victor Onyango Obiero
New Young Players — Himanshu, M Abhishek
Rahul Chaudhari — Rs 94 lakh
Ran Singh — Rs 55 lakh
Mohit Chhillar — Rs 45 lakh
Milad Shiebak — Rs 10 lakh

Telugu Titans

Elite Retained Players — Armaan, Farhad Rahimi Milaghardan, Krushna Madane
New Young Players — Manish, Akash Choudhary
Siddharth Desai — Rs 1.45 crore
Abozar Mighani — Rs 75 lakh
Vishal Bhardwaj — Rs 60 lakh
Duet Jennings — Rs 10 lakh

U Mumba

Elite Retained Players — Fazel Atrachali, Rajaguru Subramanian, Arjun Deshwal
Retained Young Players — Anil, Gaurav Kumar, Mohit Balyan
Sandeep Narwal — Rs 89 lakh
Rohit Baliyan — Rs 35 lakh
Dong Geon Lee — Rs 25 lakh
Young Chang Ko — Rs 10 lakh

UP Yoddha

Elite Retained Players — Amit Narwal, Sachin Kumar
Retained Young Players — Nitesh Kumar, Aashish Nagar, Azad Singh, Arkam Shaikh
Monu Goyat — Rs 93 lakh
Shrikant Jadhav — Rs 68 lakh
Rishank Devadiga — Rs 61 lakh
Mohsen Maghsoudloujafari — Rs 21 lakh
Masud Karim — Rs 10 lakh

The base price for Category A players was set at Rs 30 lakhs and it keept reducing to Rs 20 lakhs (Category B), Rs 10 lakhs (Category C), Rs 6 lakhs (Category D) and Rs 7.26 lakhs for New Young Players.