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After 12 days of fiery raids and almighty tackles astatine the Nehru Indoor Stadium came to an extremity present connected Friday, the Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) Season 12 caravan moves to the 4th and last limb astatine the Thyagaraj Sports Complex successful New Delhi from Saturday adjacent arsenic the combat for a spot successful play-offs (top eight) has intensified.
With the fans thronging successful immense numbers — the mean turnout connected a time has been astir 3512 (stadium capableness of 6000). The superior metropolis volition big the remaining matches, including the final, connected October 31.
Chennai’s emotion for kabaddi was successful afloat view, the stadium was astir astatine afloat capacity, adjacent for immoderate matches not involving Tamil Thalaivas.
Arun Boopathy, an athletics manager astatine Kendriya Vidyalaya (IIT Madras), has watched each the seasons of PKL and enjoyed being astatine the stadium present for 3 match-days.
“Kabaddi is simply a athletics that celebrates bravery (Veera Vilaiyattu). I hail from Ramanathapuram territory wherever it is precise popular. Many sportspersons person been employed done sports quota from kabaddi. Former PKL subordinate Pardeep Narwal is my favourite. I started watching the athletics due to the fact that of him,” helium said.
Explaining wherefore radical came successful immense numbers, Arun said: “Players from Tamil Nadu person been truly good. Though they play for antithetic teams radical travel to ticker them.”
Another instrumentality Vamsi Kodali on with his girl Sitara from Vijayawada travelled to Chennai to enactment their favourite squad Telugu Titans. “There is batch of enactment for Titans here. The athletics has go precise fashionable now. Our favourite subordinate is Vijay Malik (Titans).”
For 16-year-old P. Monish, this was his archetypal PKL lucifer astatine the stadium.
“I wanted to spot the players successful action. That’s wherefore I came. I deliberation the immense turnout is due to the fact that Chennai is hosting PKL aft a spread of 2 years (Season 10 successful 2022-23),” helium said.
Kabaddi and Tamil Nadu person a heavy humanities connect, and the turnout astatine the Nehru Indoor Stadium was conscionable a tiny indication.
