The 67th Senior National Kabaddi Championships concluded last week in Jaipur with the Indian Railways men's and women's teams emerging as the winners and lifting the trophy for the second consecutive year. With the tournament over, it is time for some international action to start in the sport of Kabaddi. Keeping that in mind, the Amateur Kabaddi Federation of India (AKFI) has put out a list of the players who would be considered to be a part of the Indian men's and women's Kabaddi team for international fixtures.
AKFI has selected top players at the Senior National Kabaddi Championships from the men's and women's category to be a part of the Indian men's Kabaddi team and Indian women's Kabaddi team respectively. AKFI has selected 38 players in each category, two of which have been kept on standby. Former Indian captain Ajay Thakur has been kept off this list after his exclusion from the South Asian Games 2019 probables.
Here is the list of the players who have been listed by the Kabaddi governing body in India, AKFI. We have broken down the player list by the teams they were a part of at the Senior Nationals 2020:
Men's List
Indian Railways
1. Pawan Kumar Sehrawat - Raider
2. Vikas Khandola - Raider
3. Rohit Gulia - Raider
4. Ravinder Pahal - Right Corner
5. Sunil Kumar - Right Cover
6. Parvesh Bhainswal - Left Cover
Services
7. Naveen Kumar - Raider
8. Nitin Tomar - All-Rounder
9. Sandeep Kandola - Left Corner
10. Nitesh Kumar - Right Corner
11. Mahender Singh - Left Cover
Rajasthan
12. Deepak Niwas Hooda - All-Rounder
13. Sachin Tanwar - Raider
14. Kamal Kishor Jad - Raider
Uttar Pradesh
15. Rahul Chaudhari - Raider
16. Abhishek Singh - Raider
17. Ashu Singh - Right Cover
Haryana
18. Pardeep Narwal - Raider
19. Amit Hooda - Right Corner
20. Vishal Lathar - Left Cover
Bihar
21. Naveen Bazzad - Raider
22. Ashok - Raider
23. Manish - Left Cover
Chandigarh
24. Vijay Malik - All-Rounder
25. Yash - Right Corner
Maharashtra
26. Pankaj Mohite - Raider
27. Shubham Shinde - Left Corner
Tamil Nadu
28. V Ajith Kumar - Raider
29. Abhishek Manokaran - Right Cover
Himachal Pradesh
30. Vishal Bharadwaj - Left Corner
31. Nitesh Singh Thakur - Right Cover
Kerala (Court Direction)
32. Athul M. S. - Raider
Punjab
33. Jashnadeep Singh - Raider
Pondicherry
34. Vinoth Kumar - Raider
Karnataka
35. Prathap S. - Raider
Delhi
36. Ashish - Left Corner
Standby Players
37. E. Subhash - Tamil Nadu - Right Corner
38. Shrikant Jadhav - Indian Railways - Raider
Women's List
Indian Railways
1. Pooja Narwal
2. Ritu Negi
4. Ritu Kumari
5. Pavithra I
Himachal Pradesh
6. Pushpa
7. Jyoti
8. Nidhi Sharma
9. Bhavna Devi
10. Kavita
Haryana
11. Sakshi Kumari
12. Priyanka
13. Muskan Malik
14. Leena
Jharkhand
15. Akshima
16. Priyanka
Rajasthan
18. Manpreet Kaur
Goa
19. Sakshi
20. Neha Ghadge
Tamil Nadu
21. R. Sathya Priya
Delhi
22. Anjali
Bihar
23. Harpreet Kaur
Chhattisgarh
24. Chhaya
Chandigarh
25. Meenu
26. Jyoti Suresh
Uttar Pradesh
27. Shivani
28. KM Amresh
Punjab
29. Harwinder Kaur
30. Amandeep Kaur
Maharashtra
31. Megha Kadam
Madhya Pradesh
Assam
Telangana
34. Shaik Nousheen
Odisha
35. Kaffi
Standby Players
36. Ritu - Delhi