Top 10 most expensive IPL Players of 2017

On February 20th, 2017, IPL 2017 Auction for 351 players was held at Bangalore and below are list of Top 10 most expensive IPL Players of 2017

1. Ben Stokes

Ben Stokes is the most expensive player in the Vivo IPL 2017 after the Virat Kohli, Royal Challengers Bangalore has retained Virat Kohli for 150M. Ben Stokes is an all rounder representing the England doing well in both Batting and Bowling. Rising Pune  Supergiants has bought him for Rs.145M(Rs.14.5 Crores)

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Country: England
Role: All-Rounder
Base price: Rs.20 Million(Rs.2 Crores)
IPL Team: Rising Pune Supergiants
Sold out for Rs. 145 Million(Rs.14.5 Crores)

2. Tymal Mills

Tymal Mills is the second most expensive player in the Vivo IPL 2017. He is the most expensive Specialist bowler in the league. Royal Challenger Bangalore has bought Tymal Mills for Rs.120 Million(Rs. 12 Crores)

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Country: England
Role: Bowler
IPL Team: Royal Challengers Bangalore

Base price: 5 Million (Rs.50 Lakhs)
Sold out for Rs.120 Million (Rs.12 Crores)

3. Trent Boult

Trent Boult is the third most expensive player in the Vivo IPL 2017. Trent Boult is bowler representing New Zealand and Kolkata Knight Riders have bought Trent Boult for Rs. 50 Million(Rs.5 Crores)

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Country: New Zealand

Role: Bowler

IPL Team: Kolkata Knight Riders
Base price: 15 Million(Rs.1.5 Crores)
Sold out for Rs, 50 Million(Rs.5 Crores)

4.Kagiso Rabada

Kagiso Rabada is a 21-year-old South African player and he made his debut in 2015. As of now, he played 31 ODI matches and took 51 wickets. Kagiso Rabada has sold equally as Trent Boult for Rs. 5Crores.

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Country: South Africa
Role: Bowler
IPL Team: Delhi Daredevils
Base Price: 10 Million
Sold out for Rs.50 Million

5.Pat Cummins

Pat Cummins is a 23-year-old Australian Fast bowler and his average bowling speed is 145 km/h. As of now, he played 28 ODI matches and got 51 wickets with the bowling average of 25.4. Delhi Daredevils has bought him for the Rs. 4.5 Crores.

Country: Australia

Role: Bowler

IPL Team: Delhi Daredevils

Base price: Rs. 20 Million (Rs.2 Crores)
Sold out for Rs.45 Millions(Rs.4.5 Crores)

6.Chris Woakes

Chris Woakes is a 27-year-old England Cricketer and this is the first time that he is part of the Indian Premier League. He is an all-rounder who is good batting and bowling. Kolkata Knight Rider has bought him for Rs. 4.2 Crores.

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Country: England
Role: All-rounder
IPL Team: Kolkata Knight Riders
Base Price: 20 Million (Rs.2 Crores)
Sold out for Rs.42 Million(Rs.4.2 Crores)

7.Rashid Khan

Rashid Khan is the first Afghan player to play in IPL and he is one of the youngest players(18 years old) in IPL league. He made his debut in ODI and T20 in 2015. Sun Riser Hyderabad has bought him for Rs.4 Crores

Country: Afghanistan
Role: Bowler
IPL Team: Sun Risers Hyderabad
Base price: Rs. 5 Million (Rs.5 Lakhs)
Sold out for Rs. 40 Million (Rs.4 Crores)

8.Nathan Coulter-Nile

Nathan Coulter-Nile is a 29-year-old Australian cricketer and he has a specialist in bowling. He had played for ODI and T20 matches. In 2013, Mumbai Indians has bought him for Rs.3 Crores. In 2014 Dare Devils has bought for Rs.3.5 Crores

Country: Australia

Role: Bowler

IPL Team: Kolkata Night Riders

Base Price: Rs.10 Million (Rs.1 Crore)
Sold out for Rs.35 Million(Rs.3.5 Crores)

9.Karn Sharma 

Karn Sharma is a 29-year-old Indian cricketer and he made his test and the ODI debut in 2014. He is all rounder In 2009, he played for Royal challengers Bangalore. He played for Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2014 and 2015. Sun Riser Hyderabad has bought Karn Sharma for 3.75 Crores in 2015. In 2017, Mumbai Indians has bought him Rs.3.2 Crores

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Country: India
Role: Batting
IPL Team: Mumbai Indians
Base price: Rs.3 Million(Rs. 30Lakhs)
Sold out for Rs,32 Million (Rs. 3.2 Crores)

10.Thangarasu Natarajan

Thangarasu Natarajan is 25-year-old Indian Cricketer son of a Tea stall shopkeeper. His hard work has paved off on Monday. Thangarasu Natarajan was bought for Rs. 3.2 Crores by Kings XI Punjab.He played for Tamil Nadu in First Class matches in Ranji Trophy.

Country: India
Role: Bowler
IPL Team: Kings X1 Punjab

Base price: Rs.1 Million(Rs. 10 Lakhs)

Sold out for Rs.30 Million (Rs.3 Crores)

Varon Aaron is sold out for Rs.2.8 Crores to King XI Punjab and Mohammed Siraj is sold out for Rs.2.6 Crores to Sun Riser Hyderabad. The saddest part is Ishant Sharma and Irfan Pathan remained the unsold. Can't wait to watch IPL matches and hopefully IPL 2017 would be special.

Top 10 WWE Superstars

There are so many superstars in WWE but only few of them have won millions of hearts of WWE fans. Below are Top 10 WWE Superstars

Brock Lesnar

Brock Lensar is considered to the beast, the wrestlers who have fought aganist the Brock, know the pain he is going to leave to them. Brock Lesnar youngest champion of WWE, he received the belt after defeating The Rock. He had fought with almost every superstars and showed the pain to them. Brock has left WWE in 2004 to play in National Football league. Though he did well in the matches, he don't wanted to continue in Football. Then he immediately received UFC offers, he did quite well in all the matches. He defeated the Frank Mir in UFC 100 and became undisputed UFC champion. He lost few matches in UFC against Cain Velasquez. He returned to the WWE in 2012 and he is continuing as Superstar in WWE.

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Stone Cold Steve Austin

Stone Cold is a Superstar in professional Wrestler in World Wrestling Entertainment(WWE). Stone Cold original name Steven James Williams. He is not only wrestler, he is also actor, producer and media personality. He took retirement from World Wrestling Entertainment(WWE). He starred in the movies such as The Expendables, Hunt to Kill, The Condemned and his lastest movie Smosh: The Movie.

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Rock

Rock is a WWE Superstar and his original name is Dwayne Johnson. After Rock left WWE, he starred in Scorpion King, The Fast and the Furious franchise etc,. He is list No.25 among Top 100 most powerful celebrities and he is one of the highest paid actors in 2015. He is list as one of the most influential people in 2016 by Time Magazine. An autobiography about the Rock with the name "The Rock Says..." was published in 2000 and 720,000 copies were sold. It was listed in The New York Times Best Seller. 

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Goldberg

Goldberg's original name is William Scott "Bill" Goldberg and he is a WWE Super Star, actor, producer, football player. He is well known for his undefeated streak with 173-0. He is only one who defeated Brock Lensar, The beast. He worked as a commentator in the Mixed Martial Arts. He starred in movies such as Nine Legends, Kill Speed, Ready to Rumble.

Kurt Angle

Kurt Angle is American WWE Super Star and his original name is Kurtis Steven Angle. He is the professional wrestler and received a gold medal in freestyle wrestling at the 1995 World Wrestling Championships and received another gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics. He starred in the movies like The Last Witch Hunter, Warriors etc,.

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John Cena

John Cena is a WWE Superstar and he won the world champion belt for 13 times. John was well known for his inspirational quotes such as "Never Give Up" "Hustle, loyality, respect". He appeared in many movies such as "Marine", "Fred The movie", "The Reunion" and many more. He also appeared in Television shows such as "Manhunt", "Fred The show", "parks and Recreations" etc,. Many video games have been released on John Cena. 

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Undertaker

Undertaker is one of the best superstars in WWE and he remained with WWE from 1989. He is longest tenured in-ring performer. He has record of 21 victories without defeating at main events such as Wrestlemania events. He won the world Champion Belt for the 4 times and world heavy weight championship for 3 times. He also won Royal Rumble in 2009. Apart from the Wrestling, he also appeared in the Movies and the TV shows.

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Batista

Batista is a retired WWE superstars, he won WWE Championship for the 6times and he won WWE heavy weight Championship for the 4 times. He won the Royal Rumble match in 2005. Apart from the wrestling, the Batista has acted in the movies such as Guardians of the Galaxy, Riddick, Kickboxer reboot etc,.

Big Show

Big Show is one of the tallest and heaviest wrestling superstar in WWE. He was WWE since 1999 and he won the WWE world championship twice, WWE world heavy weight championship twice. Apart from wrestling, Big Show appeared in the movies such as Countdown, Vendetta etc,. He was appeared in the TV shows such as Lip Sync Battle, Psych, Burn notice.

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Triple H

Triple H is one of the best WWE superstar and he made his debut in WWE in 1999. He was world champion for 9 times and he won world heavy weight championship for 5 times. He also won king of ring in 1997 and Royal Rumble in 2002, 2016. Apart from wrestling, Triple H is a businessman, who runs NXT TV series. He also appeared in movies and Television shows.

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Randy Orton

Randy Orton is one of the best wrestlers in WWE. He is youngest wrestler to win world heavy weight championship. Randy Orton has won total 15 championships 8 WWE world championship and 6 WWE world heavy weight championship. He also won Royal Rumble twice and money in the bank one time. Apart from wrestling, Randy Orton has appeared in the movies and Television shows. His popular movies are "The Condemned 2", "Countdown", "That's what I AM". 

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Hope you liked it and please comment below your favorite WWE Superstars :)

Top 10 Good Looking Indian women Athletes

There will be so many beautiful heroines in the cinema's but beauty with talent will be very rare. Below are the list of Top 10 Good Looking Woman Athletes.

Ritika Singh

Ritika Singh is a professional MMA Fighter and she participated in the Indian Super Fight League. She was a heroine for the movie called Saala Khadoos(Irudhi Suttru) starring the Madhavan. She received the 63rd National Film Awards for the Irudhi Suttru movie. Now, Irudhi Suttru is remade into the Telugu movie as Guru by starring Daggupati Venkatesh. Ritika Singh is one of the good looking Indian athletes.

Akanksha Singh

Akanksha Singh is a Basketball player and she is currently the captain of the Women's National Basketball. She has grown up watching her sister's playing basketball. Unexpectedly, she got an opportunity to play for Under 17 at the age 11. Later, she focused on her game and took Basketball fame to a greater extent. She received many awards for her contribution towards Basketball. Akanksha Singh is one of the good looking Indian athletes.

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Pratima Singh

Pratima Singh is one of the finest Basketball players in India and she is the youngest sisters of the Akanksha Singh, Divya Singh, Priyanka Singh. Over the past 10 years, Singh sisters have played in Indian Basketball team. They are popularly known as Singh sisters. Pratima Singh got married to Indian Cricketer Ishant Sharma in December 2016. Pratima Singh is one of the good looking Indian athletes.

Sunita Rao- Tennies player

Sunita Rao is one of the Indian professional tennis players. She was born and raised in America but her parents hail from the Mangalore. Though she is a resident of the America, she represented for India in Tennis, She played for both singles and doubles format and her career best ranks are 144 and 108. Throughout her career, she has won 8 ITF titles. She took her retirement on 2009. Sunita Rao is one of the good looking Indian athletes

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Nidhi Chilumula - Tennis Player

Nidhi Chilumula is a 23 years old National Tennis player of India. She started playin
g the tennis at the age of 9. According to the ITF, her current rank is 756 and highest rank is 578 in the single format and in the doubles format. Nidhi Chilumula is one of the good looking Indian athletes.

Dipika Pallikal - Squash Player

Dipika Pallikal is a 25-year international Squash player, She is first Indian to get into the top 10 women Squash Player. The Government of India has honored her with Arjun Award in 2013 and Padma Shri award in 2015. Her mother was an Indian cricketer and she got married to Dinesh Karthik in 2013. Dipika Pallikal is one of the good looking Indian athletes.

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Neha Agarwal - Table Tennis

Neha Agarwal is retired Table Tennis players and she was born on 11th January 2007 in New Delhi. She has represented India in 2008 Beijing Olympics. Her highest world rank 18 under 19 and She won the gold medal at Indian National Championship for 2013. Neha Agarwal is one of the good looking Indian athletes

Saina Nehwal - Badminton

Saina Nehwal is an Indian professional Badminton player. She won many medals for India at the various tournament. Throughout her career, she won 22 titles and she was ranked number #1 in the year 2015. Her current world rank is 10. The Government of India has honored her with Padma Bhushan, Arjan award, and Rajiv Gandi Khel Ratna award and she is considered as one of the most successful athletes and She is one of the good looking Indian women athletes.

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Taina Sachdev - Chess

Tania Sachdev is an Indian Chess professional player and she is one of the good looking Indian women athletes. She was born in Delhi and her parents encouraged her by providing professional training to her. She started her career at the age of 8. She won International Master title in 2008 and also she won Women Grandmaster title in 2005. She got married to the Viraj Kataria in 2013. She is currently the brand Ambadessor for Redbull company.

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Priyanka Jeet Toshi - Mixed Martial Arts

Priyanka Jeet Toshi is mixed martial arts professional player and she is one of the good looking Indian women athletes. She has participated in the India Super Fight League. She comes with a Kickboxing background. She is one of the inspirational female women in India.

Saina Mirza - Tennis

Saina Mirza is a popular Indian professional Tennis player. She was born in Hyderabad, Telangana. Though she retired from singles, she is continuing with doubles. He became more successful after her retirement from singles. She has won many titles throughout her career. The Government of India has honored her with Arjun award, Rajiv Gandi Khel Ratna award, Padma Sri and Padma Bhushan awards. She got married to Pakistani Cricket, Shoaib Malik.

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Sharmila Nicollet - Golf

Sharmila Nicollet is an Indian Professional Golf player and she is considered as one best good looking Indian women Athletes. Though her parents are from French, She was born in India and She has represented India in Asian Games 2006. She is one the youngest players in India to play the Golf game. She was award the Lady Golfer of the year 2009 and player of the year in 2010. Throughout her career, she has won 11 professional games.

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Top 10 ODI Centuries of Yuvraj

Here are the top 10 ODI Centuries of Yuvraj

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After 2011 ICC world cup, Yuvraj has scored 150 runs in 122 balls and in the same match, Dhoni scored has 134 runs. Together they have made 256 partnership for the 4th wicket which helped the team to give a big target of 381 to England. In the 2nd Innings, Morgan tried his best to win the match, his century went in vain. India won by 15 runs

Series: PayTM Series 2017, India tour England
Match: India vs Australia
India 1st Innings: 381/6 50 Overs
2nd Innings: 366/8 50 Overs
Result: India has won by 15 runs
Man of the Match: Yuvraj Singh 150(122 balls 21 Fours, 3 Sixes)

This is the second ODI century for Yuvraj 139 runs from 122 balls. Along with Yuvraj, Laxman has made 106 runs in 130 balls. 213 runs partnership between the Yuvraj and Laxman for the 4th wicket. India gave a target of  296. In the second innings. Gilchrist and Pointing has contribution has help the Australia to win the match by D/L method

Series: VB Series 2004, Australia, Zimbabwe, India
Match: India vs Australia
India 1st Innings: 296/4 50 Overs
Australia 2nd Innings: 225/8
Result: Australia won by 2 wickets (with 1 balls remaining) D/L method
Man of the Match: Yuvraj 139 16 fours 3 sixes

Yuvraj has scored 138 runs in 78 balls with the strike rate of 176.92. Before Yuvraj, Sehwag and Gambir had given an opening partnership of the 127 for the 1st weekend. After Sehwag and Gambir went to the pavilion, Yuvraj played his innings in his own style. Dhoni and Yuvraj partnership is the highlight the match. They made 100 runs in just 58 balls that helped India to score a big target for the English.

Series: England tour of India 2008,
Match: India vs England
India 1st Innings: 387/5 50 Overs
England 2nd Innings: 229/10 37.1 Overs
Result: India won by 158 runs
Man of the Match: Yuvraj 138* 16 Fours 6 Sixes

In the 1st ODI match of India vs West India, Yuvraj has scored 131 runs in 102 balls which helped India to give a big target for West Indies. In the second innings, Chanderpaul scored a half century but that couldn't help West Indies to win the match because there was no consistent partnership between the players.

Series: India tour of West Indies 2009
Match: India vs West Indies
India 1st Innings: 339/6 50 Overs
West Indies 2nd Innings: 319/10 48.1 Overs
Result: India won by 20 runs
Man of the Match: Yuvraj 131 10 Fours 7 Sixes

In the 3rd ODI of Australia vs India, though Yuvraj has scored the 121, it didn't help the team India to win the match against India. In the 1st Innings, Symonds scored 89 runs in just 67 balls with 5 Fours and 5 Sixes that helped Australia to give a target of 290 for India. Yuvraj contribution went in the vain. Australia won match by 47 runs

Series: Australia in India 2007
Match: India vs Australia
Australia 1st Innings: 290/7 50 Overs
India 2nd Innings: 243/10 47.4 Overs
Result: Australia won match by 23 runs
Man of the Match: Symonds 89 5 Fours 5 Sixes

In the 6th ODI of India vs Zimbabwe, India won the toss and chose to the field. In the 1st innings, Captain Taibu has scored 71 that helped Zimbabwe given a target of 250 runs in 50 Overs. In the second innings, Yuvraj has scored 120 runs in 124 balls which India with ease.

Series: Videocon Triangular Series 2005
Match: India vs Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe 1st Innings: 250/10 50 Overs
India 2nd Innings: 255/6 48.1 Overs
Result: India won by 4 wickets with 11 balls remaining
Man of the Match: Yuvraj 120 12 Fours 1 Six

In the 2nd ODI match, India won the toss and chose to bat first. India lost 3 wickets early at 29/3, Yuvraj and Gambir made a partnership of 130 runs that helped India to score the decent target of 292 for the England.In the second innings, England tried to make the runs, but India bowling domination helped the India to win the match.

Series: England tour of India 2008
Match: India vs England
India 1st Innings: 292/9 50 Overs
English 2nd Innings: 238/10 47 Overs
Result: India won 54 runs
Man of the Match: Yuvraj 118 15 Fours 2 Sixes

In the 3rd ODI of India vs Sri Lanka, India won the toss and chose to bat. With the early departure of the Sachin and Gambir, Sehwag and Yuvraj took the responsibility of team in scoring the decent target. In the process, Sehwag and Yuvraj had made a partnership of 221 for 4th wicket and India give a target of the 363 for Sri Lanka. With the pressure of the scoring huge target, Sri Lanka lost the wickets early and Sangakkara took the responsibility of the team to beat India, but the Sri Lanka couldn't able to make it and Sri Lanka lost the match.

Series: India tour of Sri Lanka 2009
Match: India vs Sri Lanka
India 1st Innings: 363/ 50 Overs
2nd Innings: 216/ 10 41.4
Result: India won by 147 runs
Man of the Match: Yuvraj 117 17 Fours 1 Six

In the 42nd ODI match of India vs West Indies, Yuvraj Singh has scored 113 runs in 123 balls that helped India to give the decent target of 268 runs for the West Indies. Though the target was not huge for the west Indies, they lost the wickets early and with pressure from the India bowlers, west Indies lost all the wickets in 43 Overs.

Series: ICC World Cup 2011
Match: India vs West Indies
India 1st Innings: 266/10 49.1 Overs
West Indies 2nd Innings: 188/10 43 Overs
Result: India won by 80 runs with 42 balls remaining
Man of the Match: Yuvraj Sing 113 10 Fours 2 Sixes

In the 6th ODI match of India vs west Indies, Yuvraj scored 110 from 104 balls in the 1st innings and this is the 3rd Century for the Yuvraj. India has given the target of the 262 to the West Indies. With the hope of defeating the India, RS Morton and Ramdin scored 84 and 74 respective, their hard work went in vain. West Indies has lost the match with short of 7 runs.

Series: India Oil Cup 2005
Match: India vs West Indies
India 1st Innings: 262/5 50 Overs
West Indies 2nd Innings: 255/9 50 Overs
Result: India won by 7 runs
Man of the Match: Yuvraj 110 11 Fours 1 Six

The probability of India winning the match will 90% when Yuvraj scores century, Yuvraj is the true inspiration, he is fought against cancer and came back to form. Hopefully, he should score many centuries in the future

ALL THE BEST YUVRAJ 😊

Top 5 reasons why Dhoni has stepped down from ODI and T20 Captaincy

On January 4th, 2017 there was a shocking news for Indian Cricket fans when they heard the news about Mahendra Singh Dhoni's decision to quit from Captaincy role in ODI and T20 format. Since Dhoni has already retired from the Test format, we won't be able to see him playing captain role in international matches. Under the Dhoni Captaincy, India won ICC T20 world cup in 2007, ICC ODI world cup in 2011 and Champion Trophy in 2013. No, Indian Captain has achieved this glory.

Out Of Form

2016 is not a good year for the Dhoni because there are no remarkable innings scoring good runs. Out of 16 ODI's in 2016, he scored around 278 and with the highest score of 80. Dhoni might have thought to handover captaincy to someone else before someone asks him to announce the news.

Gap 

Since Dhoni has already retired from the test career, there is gap more than 77days since he played ODI match. During this period, there were few test matches and Virat Kohli continuous good performance has attracted BCCI management to inclined towards the Virat Kohli for the Captaincy

Age

Dhoni has previously declared that he will be retiring from the Cricket at the 35. At the moment, Dhoni's age is 35. He might be thinking giving up responsibilities for the upcoming generations

IPL Pressure

Because of match Fixing controversy, the Chennai Super kings was banned, he became captain for Rising Pune Supergiants team. Their team was out of the league as they couldn't able to score points league matches.

Concentrate on Game

With constant pressure from the critics about the form and losing the matches might also be a reason for leaving captaincy. Dhoni might have thought of retaining his form by replacing his position with a new captain.

Dhoni is always unpredictable and he shocked everyone with his decisions announcing that he test career retirement. Yesterday, he announced that he stepping down from ODI and T20 Captaincy. Let's hope he will not announce the retirement for the ODI and T20 format until next 2019 world cup.


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Top 10 Male Olympic Wrestlers in India

Wrestling sport is coming into the limelight, after the release of Dangal and Sultan movies. Wrestling(Kusthi) is one of the historical sport of India, popularly known as Malla-Yuddha in south India which is considered as an amateur style of wrestling. In modern Olympics, amateur style is categorized into Freestyle and Greco-Roman style. Among them, Freestyle wrestlers is a popular one. Let's see the top 10 male wrestlers in India:

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K D Jadhav

He is first Indian to receive an individual Olympic bronze medal at 1952 Summer Olympic Games in Helsinki. He was born in Maharashtra and he won against a local champion at the age of 8. Though he got talent, he had very hard times, he had borne his expenses to participate in Olympics by mortgaging his home. The Government of India has printed 40 paise stamp to commemorate his achievement.

Also, Sangram Singh is directing a movie based on real life story of KD Jadhav which is going to be released in the year 2017.

Awards

Year	Awards
2001	Arjuna Award

Milestones

Year	Medal	Event	Place
1952	Bronze	Summer Olympics	Helsinki

Satpal Singh

Satpal Singh is one well know coach in India and he is a former India wrestler. Satpal Singh was born in the Pehlwani family and his grandfather, father are amateur wrestlers. His interest began in his early stages of childhood. He was trained by legendary Guru Hanuman. He won the Gold medal in 1982 Asian Games and he was Bronze medal in 1974. He received Arjuna Award in 1974 for winning a Bronze medal for India.

After his retirement, he settled as a wrestling coach in Haryana. So many of his students are participating in the national and international level. Sushil Kumar is the student of Satpal Singh. The Government of India has honored him with Dronacharya Award in 2009.

He also received other awards such as Padma Shri in 1983 and Padma Bhushan 2015.

Awards

Year	Awards
1974	Arjuna Award (Wrestling)
1983	Padma Shri Award
2009	Dronacharya Award
2015	Padma Bhushan

Milestones

Year	Medal	Event	Place
1974	Silver	Commonwealth Games	Christchurch
1978	Silver	Commonwealth Games	Edmonton, Alberta
1982	Silver	Commonwealth Games	Brisbane
1974	Bronze	Asian Games	Tehran
1978	Silver	Asian Games	Bangkok
1982	Gold	Asian Games	New Delhi

Sushil Kumar Solanki 

Sushi Kumar Solanki has won the bronze medal in Olympic Games after the KD Jadhav Bronze medal in 1952 competing at 66kg weight category. He hails from Delhi and he received Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, Arjuna award in 2005. For his achievements, various organizations have presented the cash prize of Rs. 60 million.

Milestones

Year	Medal	Event	Place
2008	Bronze	Olympic Games	Beijing
2012	Sliver	Olympic Games	London
2010	Gold	World Championships	Moscow
2010	Gold	Commonwealth Games	New Delhi
2014	Gold	Commonwealth Games	Glasgow
2006	Bronze	Asian Games	Doha
2003	Bronze	Asian Wrestling Championship	New Delhi
2007	Sliver	Asian Wrestling Championship	Bishkek
2008	Bronze	Asian Wrestling Championship	Jeju Island
2010	Gold	Asian Wrestling Championship	New Delhi
2003	Gold	Commonwealth Wrestling Championship	London
2005	Gold	Commonwealth Wrestling Championship	Cape Town
2005	Bronze	Commonwealth Wrestling Championship	Cape Town
2007	Gold	Commonwealth Wrestling Championship	London
2009	Gold	Commonwealth Wrestling Championship	Jalandhar

Yogeshwar Dutt

Yougeshwar Dutt is a freestyle Indian Wrestler from Haryana and he won the bronze medal at London Olympics in 2012 competing at 60kg weight category. In total, he won 7 Gold, 2 Bronze and 2 Silver in various tournaments. He received a cash prize of Rs.10 Million from Government of Haryana.

Awards

Year	Awards
2012	Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award
2015	Padma Shri Award

Milestones

Year	Medal	Event	Place
2012	Bronze	Olympic Games	London
2006	Sliver	Asian Games	Doha
2014	Gold	Asian Games	Incheon
2010	Gold	Commonwealth Games	New Delhi
2014	Gold	Commonwealth Games	Glasgow
2012	Bronze	Asian Wrestling Championships	Gumi
2003	Bronze	Commonwealth Championship	London
2005	Sliver	Commonwealth Championship	Cape Town
2005	Bronze	Commonwealth Championship	Cape Town
2007	Gold	Commonwealth Championship	London
2007	Gold	Commonwealth Championship	London

Ramesh Kumar

Ramesh Kumar is born in Haryana state and he has won the first bronze medal for India in 2009 at World Wrestling Championships in Denmark. Ramesh has received 3 Gold, 4 Bronze and 1 Silver medals in his wrestling Career.

Milestones

Year	Medal	Event	Place
2009	Bronze	World Wrestling Championships	Herning
2002	Gold	Commonwealth Games	Manchester
2001	Sliver	Asian Wrestling Championships	Ulan Bator
2005	Bronze	Asian Wrestling Championships	Wuhan
2009	Bronze	Asian Wrestling Championships	Pattaya
2005	Gold	Commonwealth Wrestling Championship	Cape Town
2005	Bronze	Commonwealth Wrestling Championship	Cape Town
2001	Gold	World Junior Wrestling Championships	Tashkent

Amit Kumar

Amit Kumar is the third wrestler to receive Gold medal after Ramesh Kumar and Sushil Kumar at World Wrestling Champion. He was born on 15th December 1993 in Haryana and he is the youngest athlete to participate in 2012 Indian Olympics. He won two Gold, one Bronze, and one Silver medal for India. He also plays for Pro wrestling league which is held in India.

Milestones

Year	Medal	Event	Place
2013	Sliver	World Wrestling Championships	Budapest
2014	Gold	Commonwealth Games	Glasgow
2012	Bronze	Asian Wrestling Championships	Gumi
2013	Gold	Asian Wrestling Championships	New Delhi

Udey Chand

Udey Chand was born on 25 June 1935 in Haryana and he is the first individual to get a medal for independent India in World Wrestling world Championships at Yokohama. He won Gold medal at Commonwealth Games in 1970. He was the first one to receive the Arjuna Award.

Milestones

Year	Medal	Event	Place
1961	Bronze	FILA Wrestling World Championships	Yokohama
1970	Gold	Commonwealth Games	Edinburgh
1962	Silver	Asian Games	Jakarta
1962	Silver	Asian Games	Jakarta
1962	Bronze	Asian Games	Bangkok

Chandgi Ram

Chandgi Ram was born on November 9th, 1937 in Haryana. He started his wrestling career at the age of 21 and became a National champion in 1961. He won the Gold medal at 1972 Asian games in Bangkok in 100kg weight Category.

After his retirement, he wanted his daughters to become a wrestler but there is no wrestling for women at that time. He struggled a lot to include the women wrestling in Olympics in India.

Mahavir Singh Phogat is one of the students of Ram. Also, Ram has trained the Geeta, Babita, and Vinesh who later became the international wrestler.

Awards

Year	Awards
1969	Arjuna Award (Wrestling)
1972	Padma Shri Award

Lila Ram

Lila Ram was born on November 30, 1930, in Haryana. He started his career when he was 18 and later he won the national championship. He is first Indian to win a Gold medal at 1958 commonwealth games in Cardiff. The Government of India has honored with Padma Shri award for his contribution towards sports. After his retirement, he worked as an India coach.

Awards

Year	Awards
1998	Padma Shri Award

Milestones

Year	Medal	Event	Place
1958	Gold	British Empire and Commonwealth Games	Cardiff

Sandeep Tomar

Sandeep Tomar is a young Indian freestyle wrestler competing in the 55kg weight division. He was born on April 2nd, 1991 in Uttar Pradesh. He started his career in 2012 and won 4 gold medals for India in different tournaments such as Asian Wrestling Championships, Commonwealth Wrestling Championships.

Milestones

Year	Medal	Event	Place
2016	Gold	Asian Wrestling Championships	Bangkok
2013	Gold	Commonwealth Wrestling Championship	Johannesburg
2016	Gold	Commonwealth Wrestling Championship	Singapore
2012	Gold	Copa Brasil	Rio de Janeiro

In India, because of Cricket domination, other sports does not get required support and not even encouraged. The movies like Sultan and Dangal, has drawn the attention of the Indian audience towards wrestling(Kusthi) game. I hope, the support and encourage in the coming years definitely increase.