India kabaddi team

10 articles tagged with "India kabaddi team"

Sep 19, 2026

Tajinderpal Singh Toor’s ceremonial kit was stuck at Nagoya airport, and a kabaddi raider carried India’s flag instead

A ceremonial kit that never made it out of India cost Tajinderpal Singh Toor his place at the head of the contingent in Aichi-Nagoya, and handed the f...

Sep 4, 2026

Aslam Inamdar: PKL stats, records and why his best season was not the one he won

Aslam Inamdar has 621 Pro Kabaddi points from 87 matches and a raiding rate a third below his peak. Here is why India still picked him for the Asian G...

Sep 4, 2026

Ayan Lohchab: PKL stats, records and the season he raided a third more and got caught less

Ayan Lohchab won PKL Best Raider in his second season with 316 raid points, the third-biggest raiding season the league has produced. The column that...

Sep 4, 2026

India defend two kabaddi golds with eight Asian Games debutants

Sunil Kumar replaces Pawan Sehrawat as captain, Pushpa Rana takes over the women’s team, and the draw in Japan keeps India away from Iran until the se...

Sep 2, 2026

Pawan Sehrawat: PKL records, stats and the three seasons that still carry his career

Pawan Sehrawat has 1,340 raid points from 142 PKL matches and a single-match record nobody has touched since 2019. He goes to the Asian Games this mon...

Sep 2, 2026

Devank Dalal: PKL stats, records and the best raiding rate the league has seen

Devank Dalal scored 271 raid points in 16 matches of PKL 12, a rate no season in the league’s history has matched. His own team then rested him, and h...

Aug 24, 2026

Four of India’s Hangzhou gold medallists made the Asian Games squad, and Naveen Kumar did not

India named their men’s and women’s kabaddi squads for the Asian Games on Sunday. Eight of the twelve men who won gold in Hangzhou are not on the plan...

Aug 19, 2026

Iran take their Asian Games squad to Islamabad, and their hosts are in the same group

The 2018 champions arrive on Thursday for a week of practice matches against a side they meet again in Group B. India’s men, drawn in Group A, cannot...

Aug 11, 2026

Iran name their 12 for the Asian Games, and India are still cutting from 29

Fazel Atrachali captains a squad with no surprises in it, and Iran have a new head coach for Japan. India, six weeks out, are still working from a lis...

Jul 26, 2026

India’s kabaddi men avoid Iran in the Asian Games draw, the women get them in Group A

The Asian Games 2026 kabaddi draw keeps India’s men and Iran apart until the knockouts, while India’s women were placed alongside Iran in Group A. The...