PKL 2018: Iran's Fazel Atrachali to lead U Mumba squad in sixth season

U Mumba's franchise gave a lot of shockers during the Pro Kabaddi league auctions; not buying back Anup Kumar was the biggest of them

U Mumba, the Pro Kabaddi League franchise owned by Ronnie Screwvala’s Unilazer Ventures Pvt Ltd, consist of 9 raiders, 7 defenders and 3 all-rounders. The U Mumba squad is led by Fazel Atrachali and coached by Bhaskaran Edacherry. U Mumba play their home matches at DOME@NSCI SVP Stadium in Mumbai. They had become Pro Kabaddi league 2015 champions after beating Bengaluru Bulls in the final. Fazel Atrachali became the priciest overseas player after U Mumba bought him for Rs 10 million. The U Mumba franchise gave a lot of shockers during the Pro Kabaddi league auctions. Not buying back Anup Kumar was the biggest of them. There are nine raiders in total for the team, including the Iranian Abolfazl Maghsoudlou. Abol has previously played in teams like Patna Pirates and Dabang Delhi. There is a total of eight defenders in the team. U Mumba went overboard with Iranian players. Fazel Atrachali is one of the defenders in the team. The costliest overseas player in the history of VIVO PKL, he played as a part of Patna Pirates and Gujarat Fortune Giants where he showed his best game. He has played every final since his debut in the Pro Kabaddi League.

Here is U Mumba squad for PKL 2018:

 

Player Name	Defender/All rounder/Raider
Fazel Atrachali ©	Defender, left corner
Abhishek Singh	Raider
Abolfazl Maghsodloumahali	Raider
Arjun Deshwal	Raider
Darshan Kadian	Raider
Gaurav Kumar	Raider
R Sriram	Raider
Rohit Baliyan	Raider
Siddhartha Sirish Desai	Raider
Vinod Kumar	Raider
Rajaguru Subramanian	Defender, right cover
Surinder Singh	Defender, right cover
Hadi Tajik	Defender, right corner
Adinath Sakharam Gavali	Defender, right and left cover
Dharmaraj Cheralathan	Defender, right and left corner
Anil	Defender, left cover
Rohit Rana	Defender, left cover
E Subash	All rounder
Mohit Balyan	All rounder
Shiv Om	All rounder