PUNERI PALTAN MANAGED to get into the Pro Kabaddi playoffs last season as the sixth placed team.
But they didn't go much further, being knocked out in the Eliminator stage by UP Yoddha.
The team will try hard to get further this time. Although the squad doesn't posit them as one of the favourites going into the season.
Their full roster is as follows...
Raiders
Pankaj Mohite
Mohit Goyat
Akash Shinde
Aslam Inamdar
Shubham Shelke
Aditya Shinde
Defenders
Fazel Atrachali (Iran)
Sombir
Sanket Sawant - Left Cover
D MahindraPrasad - Left Corner
Abinesh Nadarajan - Right Cover
Badal Singh - Left Corner
Alankar Patil - Right Corner
Rakesh Ram - Right Cover
Harsh Lad - Left Corner
All rounders
Mohammad Nabibakhsh (Iran)
Balasaheb Jadhav
Govind Gurjar