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Yogeshwar, Sushil highest gainers at Pro Wrestling League auction
New Delhi: Olympic medallist Indian grapplers Yogeshwar Dutt and Sushil Kumar were the highest grossers in the Pro Wrestling League auction, held here on Tuesday.
The 2012 Olympics Bronze medallist Yogeshwar, attracting the highest bids, was bought for Rs.39.70 lakh by team Haryana. Sushil went for Rs. 38.20 lakh and was snapped up by team Uttar Pradesh.
Yogeshwar and two-time Olympic medallist Sushil were clubbed in the ‘Icon’ category that consisted of six wrestlers. They had a base price of Rs.33 lakh.
The other wrestlers clubbed in the ‘Icon’ category were the home grown Narsingh Yadav, female wrestler Geeta Phogat, star female foreigners American Adeline Gray and Sweden’s Sofia Mattsson.
Narsingh Yadav was bought by team Bengaluru for Rs.34.50 lakh.
Phogat was snapped up by team Punjab at the base price for the ‘Icon’ category.
Gray’s services was bought by team Mumbai for Rs.37 lakh while team Delhi acquired Mattsson for the base price.
Over 50 wrestlers went under the hammer. Six franchises participated in the auction with a purchase capacity of Rs.2 crore each.
The tournament, with a total prize money of Rs.3 crore, will be held from December 10-27 across the bases of the six franchises.
A total of 18 ties will be held during the tournament, 15 among them being league ties, followed by two semi-finals and a final. Each tie comprises of nine bouts and will be played in accordance with the Olympics wrestling rules.
The six teams will each have nine players (five men and four women). Each team can have a maximum of five Indians and four foreigners.
The New Delhi franchise is owned by business group GMR , while the Bengaluru team belongs to the JSW group of companies.
The Punjab franchise is co-owned by veteran Bollywood actor Dharmendra and CDR group while the Uttar Pradesh team was snapped up by real estate company LotusGreens.
The Haryana team has been bought by technology company Olive Global. Maverick Industries and Mafatlal Industries own the Mumbai team.
The tournament will be conducted by ProSPortify in association with the Wrestling Federation of India.
The left-handed batsman from Haryana is garnering praise from all quarters for the way he’s finishing games regularly in the most exciting IPL season.
Gavaskar reckons Tewatia’s whirlwind knock in Sharjah (in IPL 2020) where he smashed West Indies pacer Sheldon Cottrell for five sixes in an over, gave him the confidence that he belongs to the big stage.
Speaking on Cricket Live on Star Sports, Gavaskar said, “That assault on Sheldon Cottrell in Sharjah gave him the belief to do the impossible and the confidence that he belongs here. We saw the impossible (he did with the bat) the other day as well. There’s no twitching or touching the pads (which shows a batter’s nervousness) when he bats in the death overs. He just waits for the ball to be delivered and plays his shots. He’s got all the shots in the book, but most importantly his temperament to stay cool in a crisis is brilliant.”
Gavaskar has also nicknamed the 28-year-old cricketer the ‘ice-man’ and lauded Tewatia’s ability to remain unruffled during the tense moments.
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