Buoyed via the luck of the lads’s match, the organizers of Pro Kabaddi League at the moment are exploring the potential for launching a qualified franchise-based girls’s match within the nation.
Mashal Sports, the organizers of PKL which is now in its tenth yr, stated they’re making plans to release the league in collaboration with the Amateur Kabaddi Federation of India and the International Kabaddi Federation (IKF).
“Our plans for a professional women’s kabaddi league are based on the success we have seen in the men’s league and our commitment to grow kabaddi as a modern world-class sport from India,” CEO of Mashal Sports and PKL Commissioner Anupam Goswami stated in a commentary. statements.
“We will be working with our various stakeholders, including the AKFI and the International Kabaddi Federation to launch the women’s league.”
A take a look at match, Women’s Kabaddi Challenge, involving 3 groups — Firebirds, IceDivas and StormQueens — had already been arranged in 2016.
Former India captain V Tejeswini Bai, who led the rustic to its remaining Asian Games gold medal in 2014 Incheon, stated a large dream might be fulfilled if the ladies’s league takes form.
“Ever since the launch of Pro Kabaddi League in 2014, women kabaddi players in India have aspired for a professional kabaddi league of their own,” Tejeswini, who captained StormQueens, stated.
“Now, a women’s version of PKL will be a big dream-come-true for every woman kabaddi athlete in India, and also for women kabaddi athletes from other countries,” added the Arjuna Awardee.
India’s main male kabaddi gamers additionally echoed identical sentiments. “Pro Kabaddi has transformed the lives and image of men kabaddi athletes across India,” stated former India captain Ajay Thakur. “I know if Mashal Sports does a women’s league, it will do the same for women kabaddi athletes.”
Thakur’s perspectives have been seconded via Pardeep Narwal, the perfect point-scoring raider of PKL.
“The quality and popularity of Pro Kabaddi League has enabled us to acquire pride and respect as kabaddi players. I know that a women’s PKL will guarantee the same recognition and reward for our women athletes.”
As conventional and long-standing a game as kabaddi is, it all started gaining traction lately after the release of the Pro Kabaddi League in 2014. Season 9 of PKL attracted cumulative viewership of 222 million on Star Sports, the legitimate broadcaster of Pro Kabaddi League and reached thousands and thousands of audience thru Disney+ Hotstar. The play-offs and ultimate of Season 9 noticed a cumulative succeed in of 66 million, a 32% building up over the former season.