Sep 25, 2026
Thailand put India all out once, and still lost the kabaddi semi-final 66-28
India’s men and women both won their Asian Games kabaddi semi-finals on Friday in Aichi, and will play for gold on Saturday.
Kabaddi
37 articles tagged with "Kabaddi"
Sep 24, 2026
India’s men won every kabaddi group game by at least 16 points, and Thailand are next
India’s men beat Chinese Taipei 37-21 and the women beat hosts Japan 50-25 on Thursday, so both kabaddi teams go into Friday’s Asian Games semi-finals...
Sep 23, 2026
India’s men led Bangladesh 29-9 at half-time, and the women came from behind to beat Iran
India’s men beat Bangladesh 48-25 to become the first team into the Asian Games kabaddi semi-finals, and the women turned round an early deficit again...
Sep 22, 2026
Iran took the one women’s kabaddi gold India have missed, and the two meet again at 8.30am on Wednesday
India’s women have won three of the four Asian Games kabaddi titles. Iran have the other one, from Jakarta in 2018, and the sides have not played at a...
Sep 22, 2026
South Korea ended India’s unbeaten Asian Games run in 2018, and India have just beaten them 63-31
India’s men beat South Korea 63-31 at the Tokai Citizen Gymnasium in Aichi on Tuesday for a second straight Group A win. The fixture carried history:...
Sep 21, 2026
India cleared the Bangladesh mat twice, and the team that took their one lost gold is next
A 42-21 win at the Tokai Citizens Gymnasium started India’s women’s kabaddi title defence, and Iran arrive on Wednesday morning.
Sep 21, 2026
India led Japan 31-9 at the break, and then won the second half 18-15
India’s kabaddi title defence opened with a 49-24 win over the hosts. The group has already produced an upset that had nothing to do with them.
Sep 20, 2026
India’s women have won three of the four kabaddi golds, and the team that took the other one is in their group
Eight teams, six days and no second chances. India begin their Asian Games defence in Aichi Prefecture on Monday, with the only side ever to beat them...
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 18, 2026
India’s kabaddi defence starts at 6am on Monday, and the one team to beat them in an Asian Games pool is in their group
Kabaddi at the Asian Games runs from 21 to 26 September at the Tokai Citizens Gymnasium in Aichi. India’s men open against Japan and meet the Republic...
Sep 15, 2026
Nine of India’s 12 Asian Games kabaddi players came out of a Haryana league, and it just added two teams
The Kabaddi Champions League announced a 10-team second season on Monday, a week before India begin their Asian Games title defence in Japan. Its chai...
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...
Sep 1, 2026
Maninder Singh: the kabaddi raider who is 233 points from the PKL record
Only Pardeep Narwal has scored more raid points in the Pro Kabaddi League, and Narwal has retired. At 36, Maninder needs about 25 more matches to catc...
Aug 27, 2026
India have replaced both kabaddi captains who won gold in Hangzhou, and kept both in the squads
India named Sunil Kumar and Pushpa Rana as their kabaddi captains for the Asian Games in Japan, and both of the players they replace have kept their p...
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...
Aug 9, 2026
Ashu Malik: PKL stats, records and the title he won in 14 matches
Ashu Malik has 916 points in 105 Pro Kabaddi matches and a title as Dabang Delhi’s captain. The season Delhi finally won one was the season he played...
Aug 8, 2026
Mohammad Reza Shadloui: PKL records, the Gujarat Giants fall, and what comes next
Iran’s left corner has 391 tackle points, two PKL titles and the biggest single-match tackle haul the league has ever seen. He also spent last season...
Aug 6, 2026
Reports now put the PKL 13 auction in late October, and the Asian Games are why
Mashal Sports has still not announced a date. The window being reported has moved from July to late October, which would push Season 13 into December.