Teams name their Elite Retained Players ahead of VIVO Pro Kabaddi auction

With the auction for VIVO Pro Kabaddi Season 7 approaching soon, all 12 teams have announced the names of the players that they have retained for the upcoming campaign.

While 27 players, including some of the league’s biggest stars, were retained by their respective teams, a host of the league’s elite talents like Rahul Chaudhari, Siddharth Desai and Monu Goyat among others will enter the Season 7 auction pool where the franchises will battle it out for their services ahead of the new campaign.

The Player Retention Policy for Season 7 has been strengthened in line with the objective of building squad continuity and stability. The Elite Player Retention cap has been increased from a maximum of 4 to a maximum of 6. Franchises can retain up to 6 Elite Players from either category A, B or C, with a maximum of two each from Category A and B.

"The league is cognizant of the significance of squad continuity and long-term association of players with their respective teams towards creating strong hooks and bonds for fans as well as sponsors," said VIVO Pro Kabaddi's League Commissioner Anupam Goswami. "With this realisation, VIVO Pro Kabaddi has consistently strengthened its Player Retention Policy to facilitate and augment squad continuity, to benefit players as well as their teams."

Only two of the 12 teams retained four players each whereas Puneri Paltan decided to forgo their entire roster.

Here is the list of retained players:

Team	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4
Bengal Warriors	Baldev Singh	Maninder Singh
Bengaluru Bulls	Rohit Kumar	Pawan Kumar Sehrawat	Ashish Kumar
Dabang Delhi K.C.	Meraj Sheykh	Joginder Narwal
Gujarat Fortunegiants	Sachin	Sunil Kumar
Haryana Steelers	Kuldeep Singh	Vikash Khandola
Jaipur Pink Panthers	Deepak Niwas Hooda	Sandeep Kumar Dhull
Patna Pirates	Pardeep Narwal	Vikas Jaglan	Jawahar Dagar
Tamil Thalaivas	Ajay Thakur	Manjeet Chhillar	Victor Onyango Obiero
Telugu Titans	Armaan	Farhad Rahimi Milaghardan	Krushna Madane
U Mumba	Fazel Atrachali	Rajaguru Subramanian	Arjun Deshwal
U.P. Yoddha	Amit	Sachin Kumar

The VIVO Pro Kabaddi Season 7 auction is scheduled for the 8^th and 9^th of April.