Real estate tycoon buys Gujrat kabaddi team

KARACHI: Chaudhry Nasrullah Warraich of Lahore has purchased Gujrat team which will feature in the Super Kabaddi League (SKL), which begins from May 16 at Punjab Stadium, Lahore.

Warraich owns Al Jalil Garden, a real estate business, in Lahore, organisers told ‘The News’ on Tuesday.

A signing ceremony in this respect was held at the National Hockey Stadium, Lahore, on Tuesday which was also attended by the chief organiser Haider Ali Daud Khan, owner of Strawberry Sports Management, which is holding the first pro kabaddi league in Pakistan.

Sialkot Bulls and Islamabad Tigers had already been sold out.

Daud told this correspondent that all the participating teams would be unveiled by the third week of this month.

A minimum of six franchises will be part of the league which is expected to have some players from Canada and Iran as well.