PKL 2024: Dabang Delhi has raiding strength, but will have to be careful of this thing
PKL 2024: Pro Kabaddi League Season 8 champions Dabang Delhi have reached the playoffs in each of the last five PKL seasons and will be hoping for a big win in Season 11. Let's know the strengths and weaknesses of this team.
Pro Kabaddi League has increased the following of this sport many folds. The tournament is going to start soon, and the champions of Season 8 Dabang Delhi would be desperate to win the title once again as they got eliminated in the playoff stages last season. This is Dabang Delhi's fifth playoff run in the last five PKL seasons, and they would hope to come out with a flattering victory in Season 11. Joginder Narwal served as an assistant coach alongside the former Dabang Delhi KC head coach Rambir Singh Khokhar in PKL 10. Now, he is being elevated to take over the role as head coach of the team going into PKL Season 11.
He is a title-winning veteran, having led Dabang Delhi to their only PKL title as skipper in Season 8. Dabang Delhi was not very active during the auctions and retained most of its star players ahead of the Season 11 player auction; however, they do have a strong squad filled with top talent. This article looks at their strengths and weaknesses lying ahead of the new campaign.
Dabang Delhi possesses one of the most powerful raiding units in the tournament, spearheaded by the likes of Naveen Kumar and Ashu Malik. While Ashu Malik finished Season 10 as the league's joint top-scoring raider with 276 raid points, two-time MVP Naveen Kumar is sixth on the all-time leaderboard for most raid points-1005 in PKL history.
The biggest threat to the PKL 11 campaign of Dabang Delhi would be injuries, especially to their raiders. Naveen Kumar and Ashu Malik are good enough to give any opponent a hard time. A possible injury to one of them will throw the raiding charge totally on the other raiders, which might disrupt the raiding balance of the teams.