Anup Kumar; Manjit
Chillar; Pardeep Narwal; Rakesh Kumar; Sandeep Narwal; Surinder Nara; Surjeet
Kumar; Rohit Kumar; Mohit chillar; Surjeet Singh & Jasvir Singh .. ..
~ many of them household
names since PKL - 2016 Pro Kabaddi League,
the 4th season that attracted people in July 2016. Water
tight defence coupled with the excellent raiding ability of Pardeep Narwal
helped Patna Pirates extend their reign over the Pro Kabaddi League title as
they downed Jaipur Pink Panthers in the finals – now the above is the team for
Kabaddi World Cup 2016.
The venue is ‘the
Arena by TransStadia’ situate in the heart of Ahmedabad, a first-of-its-kind
multi-purpose stadium in India with state-of-the-art facilities, built as a
Public Private Partnership project with the Department of Tourism and approved
by the then Chief Minister, Shri Narendra Modiji. This space will cater to 12
indoor sports, including kabaddi.
Kabaddi World Cup
has been running since 2004. India has always
won Gold Medals in Both men's and
women's teams. The 1st Kabaddi World Cup was held in 2004, 2nd was in
2007, and then annually from 2010 onwards. Last year it could not be held and now it is
on – inaugurated today at Ahmedabad.
India team led by
Anup Kumar has always dominated this event by winning all the gold medals in
both categories of men's and women's. The mens’ team has won all the 7 World
Cups. This year Kabaddi world cup total
12 teams are participating and going one on one against each other. For the
first time, Poland is taking part in the Kabaddi world cup – the others are : United
States of America, Canada, England, Australia, Iran, Poland, Argentina,
Bangladesh, Korea, Japan and Kenya.
In the final of
last edition of the Kabaddi world cup India defeated Pakistan to win the gold
medal. Till now Pakistan has won the most silver medals-4 and on another hand,
Bangladesh and Canada have won two bronze medals each. Pakistan, naturally has not been invited in the aftermath of the Uri attack and
the events which followed. Pakistan
Kabaddi Federation (PKF), sought
postponement of the event.
Today, Mr Vijay
Rupani, Chief Minister of Gujarat inaugurated the tournament having unveiled the
trophy earlier in the Vibrant Navratri
Garba 2016 at GMDC ground in Ahmedabad.
India looked
comfortably closing in – but in dying moments, they were stunned by Korea. The finish
came with a grand move by Jan Kun Lee at
the death. Indian raiders let the team down today. Just 17 raid points in total.
The stadium fell silent as Korea upset the starter winning 34-32 in the first match of the
competition. India were in the lead for
most of the contest but Korea produced a clinical performance towards the fag
end, and wiped off the deficit before taking lead over defending champions
India. The Korean unit was ecstatic after the win and thanked the crowd after
registering an emphatic win.
India did most of
the things right in the match but failed to hold on the three-point lead in the
final three minutes.
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar
7th Oct 2016 @ 21:30 hrs.
