Big B to vie for top players for Kabaddi Premier League
ABCL will be among top franchisees besides Mahindra and Mahindra in KPL.
Patna: Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan is eyeing a team for the Kabaddi Premier League (KPL), auction of which would start here next week, an official said.
The actor's film production and event management company Amitabh Bachchan Corporation Limited (ABCL) will be among top franchisees besides Mahindra and Mahindra, ONGC, Air India and few other insurance companies to take part in the auction for the KPL, joint secretary of Amateur Kabaddi Federation of India (AKFI), Kumar Vijay told PTI here today.
"The ABCL will be one of the franchisees bidding for players for the KPL," Vijay, who is also the secretary of Bihar State Kabaddi Association, added.
He said the ABCL and Mahindra and Mahindra were the new entrants in the KPL. The bidding for the KPL is scheduled during the 61st senior national men's and women's championship to be held in Patna from January 21-24, he said.
The League, backed by corporate franchises, first played in Vijaywada in 2011 with eight teams comprising of ten players.
Meanwhile, the selection committee, AKFI technical director E Prasad Rao and other officials would be present at the meet to select both the men's and women's team for the Asian Games scheduled in South Korea's Incheon in September this year and the World Cup to be held in Tamil Nadu.