Tamil Thalaivas Squad 2021: Players List and Full Team for PKL Season 8

Bengaluru, September 1: Having made their debut in Season 5 and failing to make it past the league stage, Tamil Thalaivas hope for turn in fortunes in the new Pro Kabaddi season, which makes it's return after the two-year coronavirus-forced break.

Ahead of the auction, the Thalaivas opted for a complete revamp of their squad, retaining none of their elite players from the season 7 campaign and built their team from scratch at the three-day player auctions.

Tamil Thalaivas, who retained existing new young players in defensive trio of Sagar, Himanshu and M Abishek, spent big bucks to land raiding duo Manjeet for INR 92 Lakhs and K Prapanjan for INR 71 Lakhs along with the tough-tackling potential leader in Surjeet Singh for INR 75 Lakhs.

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The Thalaivas also added raider Athul MS and eight more players - four all-rounders, two defenders and two raiders - from category C including overseas players Mohammad Tuhin Tarafder from Bangladesh and Anwar Saheed Baba of Sri Lanka.

Tamil Thalaivas spent INR 3.62 Crores during the three-day auction and this is how their squad looks for season 8:

Tamil Thalaivas 2021 Full Squad

Retained Players

Players bought in auction