The Elite Player Retention list for the seventh ProKabaddi League includes big names like Pawan Kumar Sehrawat (Bengaluru Bulls), Pardeep Narwal (Patna Pirates), Ajay Thakur (Tamil Thalaivas) and Fazel Atrachalli (U Mumba). Pink Panthers player Deepak Hooda, with a price of ₹1.15 crore is the costliest Indian player retained.
Four other major players, bought for ₹1 crore plus last season, have been released, among them are Monu Goyat (Haryana Steelers), Rahul Chaudhari (Telugu Titans), Nitin Tomar (Puneri Paltan), Rishank Devadiga (UP Yoddha).
Puneri Pathan released all three players, an exception to the team decision by others, all retaining minimum two players. Patna Pirates, Telugu Titans retained four players.
The list of retained players: Bengaluru Bulls: (Rohit Kumar, Pawan Kumar Sehrawat, Ashish Kumar); Gujarat Fortunegiants: (Sachin Talwar, Sunil Kumar); Bengal Warriors: (Baldev Singh, Maninder Singh);
Dabang Delhi: (Meraj Sheykh, Joginder Narwal); Haryana Steelers: (Kuldeep Singh, Vikash Chandola).
Jaipur Pink Panthers: (Deepak Hooda, Sandeep Kumar Dhoull); Patna Pirates: (Pardeep Narwal, Vikas Jaglan, Tushar Patil, Jawahar).
Tamil Thalaivas: (Ajay Thakur, Manjeet Chillar, Victor Onyango); Telugu Titans: (Armaan, Mohsen, Maghsoudloujanfani, Farhad Milaghardan, Nitin Madane); U Mumba: (Fazel Atrachali, Rajguru Subramaniam, Arjun Deshwal; UP Yoddha: (Amit, Sachin Kumar).