Pardeep Narwal
Patna, India
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Pardeep Narwal set the Pro Kabaddi League's single-season raid points record with 369 in Season 5, playing just 26 games — a mark that Pawan Sehrawat came closest to beating with 346 raid points in Season 7, but which still stands. Nicknamed "Dubki King" for the diving technique he uses to slip past defenders during raids, Narwal became the first raider in PKL history to cross 1,800 career raid points, retiring with a career total of 1,801 that remains the league's all-time record. His outsized individual scoring, at times outproducing an entire opposing team's defensive unit on his own, made Narwal the central commercial draw of the league's growth years following its 2014 launch. His combination of the single-season raid points record and his still-unmatched career total of 1,801 raid points has made Narwal the player most frequently cited as the greatest raider in Pro Kabaddi League history.
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