HIL Auction: Vivek Lakra’s Price Skyrockets While Liam Henderson Takes Day’s Top Pay Cheque

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Australian Liam Henderson was picked up by the Vedanta Kalinga Lancers on Wednesday at the Hockey India League auction for a whooping price fo Rs 42 Laksh, which made him the most expensive buy on the day, while Sander van Wijn went to Tamil Nadu for Rs 32 Lakhs.

The HIL governing council, which took charge of the UP Rudras, managed to pickup Ajeet Yadav for Rs 11.5 Lakh, Thies Prinz for Rs 36 Lakh and Rahul Yadav and Mohammed Harris for Rs 2 Lakh each.

Indian goalkeeper, Vivek Lakhra, who started at a base price of Rs 2 Lakh, eventually ended up fetching Rs 23 Lakh as the Shrachi Bengal Tigers went big on the domestic custodian.

Adrohit Ekka went to Soorma Hockey Club for Rs 11 Lakh, while Sushil Dhawar was picked up by Tamil Nadu Dragons for Rs 2 Lakh. Cooper Burns went to the Lancers for Rs 34.5 Lakh as the Kaliga-based team outbid SG Pipers for the signing. The Pipers, however, roped in Rupinder Singh Pal, who led the Bengal Tigers to victory in the previous season for Rs 12 Lakh.

Full Squads:

Vedanta Kalinga Lancers: Gursahibjit Singh, Rohit Kullu (JR Player), Deepak Pradhan (Jr Player), Rosan Kujur (Jr Player), KRISHAN B Pathak, Sanjay, PARTAP LAKRA, Moriangthem Rabichandra, DILPRETE Singh, Angad Bir Singh, Alexander Hendrickx (Overseas), Arthur Van Doren (Overseas), Antoine Kina (Overseas), Liam Henderson (RS 42 Lakhs), Amit Toppo (RS 2 Lakh), Suni PB (RS 2 Lakh), Bobby Singh Dhami (Rs 10 Lakhs), Jed Snowden (Rs 10 Lakhs), Cooper Burns (34.50 Lakhs), Craig Marais (Rs 10 lakhs).

JSW SOORMA HOKEY CLUB: Sukhvinder (JR Player), Pradip Mandal (JR Player), Vincent Vanasch (Overseas), Jermy Hayward (Overseas), Nicolás Della torre (OversEas), Victor Wegnez (Overseas), Nicolas Keenan (Oversaas), Dayaan Cassiem (Oversaas), Nicolas Poncelet (Overseas), Mohith Hs, Harmanpre Singh, Gurinder Singh, Vivek Sagar Prasad, Harjeet Singh, Prabhjot Singh, Gurjant Singh, Maninder Singh, Pawan Rajbhar, Akashdeep Singh (trated from Up Rudras), Jeetpal (Rs 3.2 Lakh).

Ranchi Royals: Yashdeep Siwach, Amir Ali (JR Player), Anmol Ekka (JR Player), Araijeet Singh Hundal (JR Player), Suraj Karkra, Nilam Sanjeeep Xess, MANPREET Singh, Vishnukant Singh, Mandeep Singh, Timothee Cleamment (OversEas), Timothy Howard (OversEas), Mustapha Cassiem (OversEas), Tom Boon (Overseas), Manmeet Singh Rai (RS 2 Lakh), Ashish Purty (RS 2 Lakh), Loick Luyparent (RS 10 Lakhs), Sam Lane (RS 10 Lakhs), Jack Waller (RS 10 Lakhs), Ravneet Singh (Rs 5 Lakhs), Ashish Purti (Rs 2 Lakhs).

SG Pipers: Manjeet, Thokchom Kingson Singh, Rohit (JR Player), Ankit Pal (JR Player), Dilraj Singh (JR Player), Aditya Lalage (JR Player), Sourabh Anand Kushwaha (Jr Player), Jarwan, Jarwan. Singh, Varun Kumar, Shamsher Singh, Raj Kumar Pal, Willott Ky (Overseas), Tomas Santiigo (Overseas), Gareth Furlong (Overseas), Tomas Domene (Oveseas), Jacob Draper (Jacob Draper) (OVERSEAS – OVERSEAS – Ranchi. Royals Hockey), Roman Duvekot (Rs 10 Lakhs), Rupinder Pal Singh (Rs 12 Lakhs), Bram Van Battum (Rs 11 Lakhs).

Shrachi Bengal Tigers: Gursewak Singh (JR Player), Hayden Beltz (Overseas), Gautheer Boccard (Overseas), James Carr (Oversaas), Sean Findlay (Oversaas), Enrique Gonzalez (Overseas – Traded From Vedanta Kalinga Lanckers), Christopher Rühr (Overseas – Traded from Delhi SG Pipers), Jugraj Singh, Jaskaran Singh, Pradhan Poovanna Chandura, Affan YouSuf, Atul Deep, Pardeep Sandhu Sandhu, Sukhjeet Singh, Abhishek, Parmod (RS 5 Lakh), Vivek Lakra (RS 23 Lakhs), Ketan Kushwaha (RS 2.5 Lakh), Ajinkya Jadhav (RS 2 Lakh), Tom Grambusch (Rs 10 Lakhs).

Hyderabad Toofans (All players were retained from original squad): Mukul Sharma, Irengbam Rohit (Jr Player), Bikramjit Singh (Jr Player), Sundaram Rajawat (Jr Player), Arshdeep Singh (Jr Player), Devindar Sunil Walmiki, Amandeep Lakra, Nilakanta Sharma, Sumit, Rahim Aakib Sayyed, Rajinder, Shilanand Lakra, Talwinder Singh, Gonzalo Peillat (Overseas), Jean Paul Danneberg (Overseas), Nic Woods (Overseas), Jacob Anderson (Overseas), Arthur de Sloover (Overseas), Timothy Brand (Overseas), Zachary Wallace (Overseas).

Tamil Nadu Dragons: Prudhuvi GM, Arun J (JR Player), Prince Deep Singh (JR Player), Chandan Yadav (JR Player), Amit Rohidas, Anand Lakra, Mohd. Raheel Mousseen, Sheha Gowda, Selvam Karthi, Uttam Singh, Thomas Sorsby (OversEas), David Harte (Overseas), Moritz Ludwig (Oversaas), Tom Craig (Overseas), Govers Blake (OversEas), Nathan Ephraums (Overseas), Adrohit Ekka (RS 11 Lakhs), Sushil Dhanwar (RS 2 Lakh), K Selvaraj (Rs 2 Lakh), Sander de Wijn (Rs 36 Lakhs).

Hill Governance Council (Formally Up Rudras): Prashant Barla (JR Player), Priyobarta Talem (JR Player), Manmeet Singh, Gurjot Singh, Prashant Kumar Chauhan, Surender Kumar, Hardik Singh, Lalit Kumar upadhyay, Sudeep Chirmako, Jasjit Singh Kular, Sebastean Dockyer (Overseas), Kane Russell (Overseas), Tanguyas Cosyns (Oversaas), James Mazarelo (Overseas), James Alberey (Overseas), Sam Ward (oversaas), Ajeet Yadav (Rs 11.50 Lakhs), Thies Prinz (RS 36 Lakhs), Rahul Yadav (Rs 2 Lakh), Mohd Haris (Rs 2 Lakh).