Mashal Sports activities, the organisers of Professional Kabaddi League, introduced lately that they’re exploring the release of an annual skilled league for girls’s kabaddi on equivalent traces as the lads’s PKL, which is now in its tenth yr. The league might be referred to as the Girls’s Kabaddi League.
Whilst the organisers didn’t say what number of groups they have been making plans to have within the first season, the organisers have in the past attempted preserving a three-team check match, referred to as Girls’s Kabaddi Problem, in 2016. The 3 groups have been referred to as Firebirds, IceDivas and StormQueens.
“Our plans for a certified ladies’s kabaddi league are in keeping with the good fortune we’ve got observed within the males’s league and our dedication to develop kabaddi as a contemporary world-class recreation from India. We can be running with our quite a lot of stakeholders, together with the Novice Kabaddi Federation of India (AKFI) and the Global Kabaddi Federation (IKF) to release the ladies’s league,” stated Anupam Goswami, CEO of Mashal Sports activities & League Commissioner, Professional Kabaddi League.
“Ever because the release of Professional Kabaddi League in 2014, ladies kabaddi avid gamers in India have aspired to a pro kabaddi league of their very own. Now, a ladies’s model of PKL can be a large dream come true for each lady kabaddi athlete in India, and in addition for girls kabaddi athletes from different nations,” stated V Tejeswini Bai, who captained the profitable StormQueens crew on the Girls’s Kabaddi Problem in 2016. Tejeswini is without doubt one of the many Arjuna Award-winning ladies kabaddi avid gamers from India. She captained the Indian ladies’s crew the ultimate time it gained the gold medal on the Asian Video games, at Incheon in 2014.
Pardeep Narwal, the absolute best point-scoring raider in Professional Kabaddi, added: “The standard and recognition of Professional Kabaddi League has enabled us to procure delight and recognize as kabaddi avid gamers. I do know {that a} ladies’s PKL will ensure the similar reputation and praise for our ladies athletes.”