PKL | Sehrawat named Tamil Thalaivas skipper

Tamil Thalaivas unveiled its jersey and introduced Pawan Sehrawat because the captain, for the upcoming twelfth season of the Pro Kabaddi League (PKL), right here on Wednesday. Arjun Deshwal was named the vice-captain.

Sehrawat, who was with Thalaivas within the ninth season however was unable to play a lot because of an harm, mentioned he was ‘excited’ to play for Thalaivas in entrance of the house crowd in Chennai this season.

Assistant coach Suresh Kumar mentioned that the workforce was lucky to get Sehrawat within the public sale.

“We wanted an skilled star raider who might be the captain as nicely. There had been just a few excellent raiders within the public sale. We had been uncertain if we’d be capable of get Pawan. We acquired fortunate. That too, we acquired him for an quantity which was cheaper than what we had anticipated the successful bid to be, which in flip enabled us to get Arjun as nicely,” mentioned Suresh Kumar.

Talking concerning the workforce’s preparation, he mentioned: “Since July 15, we’ve had a camp on the Ponneri Gymkhana Club. It ends on August 27. Two days after the camp started, we entered and received an All-India event in Tuticorin. We needed to offer publicity to the inexperienced gamers and get a dangle of the squad’s capability. We performed with out Pawan and Arjun. That win, after having contested towards some good groups, boosted the arrogance of our squad.”