King of the Court - "Dubki King"

Known as the “dubki king”, due to the smooth jumps he makes while easily getting out of the hands of defenders, Pardeep Narwal is a total game-changer.

Pardeep Narwal and his gravity defying moves; Source: PKL

The match ends in 2 minutes and your team requires 4 points to win. They have 2 raids left. The first raid goes empty, with no points. It’s only a single raid, just 30 seconds left for your team to win. It’s difficult to get 2 points in a single raid, rare to get 3, and next to impossible to get 4. The odds are heavily stacked against your team. Yet, you know victory is yours because you have Pardeep Narwhal-  a player who can effortlessly pull-off the improbable. And just like that, the referee makes a sign of four points. All thanks to Pardeep, your team wins!

The records that other people make once in their lifetime, he makes them every weekend at the Pro-Kabaddi League.

This is an account of any regular match of Pardeep Narwal. The records that other people make once in their lifetime, he makes them every weekend at the Pro-Kabaddi League. He is the first player to bag 900 raiding points, the fastest player to make 1000 raiding points, getting most points in a single raid with a whopping 8, and being the most valuable player in the entire tournament. If all this isn’t bewildering enough, the fact that Pardeep is just 23 will surely make you search for his stats in amazement.

Born on 16 February 1997 in the small village of Rindhana in Haryana’s Sonipat, he started playing kabaddi right from his childhood. The environment around him and the success of other kabaddi players from the village motivated him to join the sport. Narwal debuted for the Bengaluru Bulls in the season 2 of the Pro-Kabaddi League but shot to fame in the next season as a part of the Patna Pirates. He scored 92 raid points in the season- a great feat for a newbie and even went on to win the league’s title for the first time. There was no looking back for Pardeep now.

As a member of team India, he has won the Asian Kabaddi Championship, Dubai Kabaddi Masters and a gold medal at the South-Asian games.

He became Patna’s main raider and has led them to great victories. In 2016, he also debuted for team India at the Kabaddi World-Cup. No surprises here, India won the title of world champions. As a member of team India, he has won the Asian Kabaddi Championship, Dubai Kabaddi Masters and a gold medal at the South-Asian games.

India has won the most number of Kabaddi world cups and international championships. Needlessly to say, our legacy is safe in the hands of Pardeep Narwal, the undisputed emerging star of the game.