India national kabaddi team

India national kabaddi team
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Head coach	L. Srinivasa Reddy
Captain	Deepak Niwas Hooda

The Indian National Kabaddi Team represents India in international kabaddi competitions. They have won gold medals in all the Asian Games to date except the 2018 Asian Games, and they have won all Kabaddi World Cup events except the recently concluded 2020 Kabaddi World Cup held in Pakistan. Indian national kabbadi team has recently won Asian Kabaddi Championship 2017 defeating Pakistan in the final by 36-22 under the captaincy of Ajay Thakur.

Coaching staff

Position	Name
Head coach	Balwan Singh

Team

2019 Squad

The following players were called up prior to the 13th South Asian Games 2019.

Name	Role
Deepak Niwas Hooda	All Rounder (captain)
Pawan Sehrawat	(vice Captain)
Pardeep Narwal	Raider
Nitesh Kumar	Defender
Amit Hooda	Defender
Sunil Kumar	Defender
Pravesh Bhainswal	Defender
Naveen Kumar	Raider
Vishal Bhardwaj	Defender
Surender Nada	Defender
Vikash Khandola	Raider
Darshan Kadian	Raider

2019 squad for Kabaddi Masters Dubai

Following squad were called up for Kabaddi Masters Dubai 2019^[1].

Name	Role
Ajay Thakur	Captain, Raider
Rishank Devadiga	Raider
Mohit Chhillar	Defender
Surjeet Singh Narwal	Defender
Raju Lal Choudhary	Defender
Deepak Niwas Hooda	Allrounder
Rahul Chaudhari^[2]	Raider^[2]
Rohit Kumar	Raider
Sandeep Narwal	Allrounder
Girish Maruti Ernak	Defender
Monu Goyat	Raider
Pardeep Narwal	Raider
Surender Nada	Defender

2019 Squad

The following players were called up prior to the Asian Kabaddi Championship 2017:

Name	Role
Ajay Thakur	Raider (Captain)
Maninder Singh	Raider
Deepak Nivas Hooda	Allrounder
Pardeep Narwal	Raider
Rahul Chaudhari	Raider
Mahendra Singh	Defender
Mohit Chhillar	Defender
Rohit Kumar	Raider
Deepak Niwas Hooda	Allrounder
Nitin Tomar	Raider
Sandeep Narwal	Allrounder
Sachin Tanwar	Raider
Vishal Bhardwaj	Defender
Surender Nada	Defender

Past Squads

Incheon Asian Games, 2014^[3]

Name	Role
Rakesh Kumar	Raider
Ajay Thakur	Raider
Anup Kumar	Raider
Jasvir Singh	Raider
Navneet Gautam	Defender
Grupreet
Samarjert
Satish Kumar
Anoop
Surjeet Singh
Manjeet Chhillar	All Rounder
Nitin Madane	Raider
Rajaguru Subramanian	Defender

Staff :

Head Coach : Balwan Singh

Kabaddi World Cup 2016^[4]

Name	Role
Pardeep Narwal	Raider
Ajay Thakur	Raider
Deepak Nivas Hooda	All Rounder
Jasvir Singh	Raider
Anup Kumar	Captain, Raider
Rahul Chaudhari	Raider
Dharmaraj Cheralathan	Defender
Mohit Chillar	Defender
Surender Nada	Defender
Surjeet Singh Narwal	Defender
Manjeet Chhillar	All Rounder
Nitin Tomar	All Rounder
Sandeep Narwal	All Rounder
Kiran Parmar	All Rounder

Staff :

Head Coach : Balwan Singh
Mentor : K Baskaran

^[2]^[5]

Results

Asian Games

Year	Host	Winner	Score	Runner-up	3rd place	Score	4th place
Year	Host	Final			Third place match
1990	Beijing	India	Round Robin	Bangladesh	Pakistan	Round Robin	Japan
1994	Hiroshima	India		Bangladesh	Pakistan		Japan
1998	Bangkok	India		Pakistan	Bangladesh		Sri Lanka
2002	Busan	India		Bangladesh	Pakistan		Japan
2006	Doha	India	35–23	Pakistan	Bangladesh	37–26	Iran
2010	Guangzhou	India	37–20	Iran	Pakistan		Japan
2014	Incheon	India	27–25	Iran	Pakistan		South Korea
2018	Jakarta Palembang	Iran	26–16	South Korea	India		Pakistan