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词条 Ajay Thakur
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Career

  3. Pro Kabaddi League

     Seasons 1 and 2   Seasons 3 and 4   Season 5  Kabaddi World Cup 2016 

  4. Playing style

  5. Achievements

  6. References

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Ajay Thakur (born 1 May 1986) is a professional Indian international Kabaddi player and current captain of the India national kabaddi team. He was the star player of the 2016 Kabaddi World Cup final. India won the 2016 Kabaddi World Cup due to his stunning performance combined with a great team effort. He was also a key player in the Indian kabaddi team that won the Gold medal at the Incheon Asian Games in 2014. Thakur has over 14 years of professional experience in Kabaddi.

During the 2016 Kabaddi World Cup, he was the top raider of the tournament, scoring the most raid points. Ajay won the title of highest overall points scorer with 68 points. His best performance came in the final vs. Iran with a game-winning effort, scoring 12 raid points.

Early life

Ajay Thakur was born in Dabhota, a village in the municipality of Nalagarh, Himachal Pradesh, to Chottu Ram (Father, was a state level wrestler) and Rajinder Kaur (Mother). he was inspired by his cousin brother, Rakesh who had already represented India in Kabaddi at international level.

Career

Ajay Thakur has been described as one of the best Indian raiders of all time.[1] He represented his employer Air India at the Industrial National Championships.[2] He has also captained India team in 2017 and led them to gold.

Pro Kabaddi League

Seasons 1 and 2

He played for Bengaluru Bulls in the Pro Kabaddi League for the initial 2 seasons.

In season 1 he scored a total of 122 raid points of 15 matches with an average of 8.13 raid points per match and with 5 Super 10's, being placed in the 4th place trailing behind the power king Maninder Singh by 8 points.

In season 2 he became the 3rd placed raider with 79 raid points from 13 matches trailing behind raid machine Rahul Chaudhari and Kashling Adake.

Seasons 3 and 4

However, he had signed with Puneri Paltan for the upcoming season starting 30 January 2016. In this season, he could not put up an impressive show with his raiding. But he still supported Deepak Nivas Hooda to reach the semifinals and play with Patna Pirates. But the Paltans went down fighting the Pirates which finally won the final. But the Paltans went past the Bengal Warriors to secure the 3rd Place in PKL season 3.

In season 4 he continued his bad form scoring a total of 63 points from 16 matches. This time the same story as PKL 3 repeated which included going down to Patna Pirates in the semis who won the finals again. But this time it was a different opponent of Telugu Titans whom the Paltans defeated to secure the third place again in PKL 4.

Season 5

This time he was purchased by the franchise of Tamil Thalaivas. This time Thakur did not have a great start but come on with an impressive form in the home leg of Tamil Thalaivas. He scored a total of 213 raid points with 12 Super 10's to his name. He became the best raider of the team and the 3rd best of PKL 5. He tried to uplift Tamil Thalaivas with support of K Prapanjan but could not make the playoffs.

Kabaddi World Cup 2016

He was the no.1 raider with most raid points and Ajay was the overall highest point scorer with 68 points.

India while playing Iran in the Kabaddi World Cup 2016 final, was in a trailing situation. In this situation, came Ajay scoring a 4-point raid to take India to the lead. He was also the Man of the Tournament in Kabaddi World Cup 2016.

[3][4]

Playing style

He is an attacking player. He tries to draw out his team when fallen into critical situations. Once he had saved Tamil Thalaivas from going down to Bengal warriors and also had given a match-winning effort against Iran. Due to his height (1.85 m), he has one of the longest reaches (to midline) in the current lot of players.

His signature move is the frog jump once he scores a point.

Achievements

His awards and achievements include:

  • Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games Kabaddi - Gold Medal [2013]
  • Gold Medal at Kabaddi at the 2007 Asian Indoor Games
  • 2014 Asian Games - Gold Medal.
  • Asian Kabaddi Championship 2017(Gorgan, Iran) - Gold Medal.
  • World Cup 2016 (Ahmedabad, India) - Gold medal
  • Asian Games 2018 (Jakarta, Indonesia)- Bronze Medal
  • padama shri awards 2019

References

1. ^{{cite news |title=Bengaluru Bulls gear up for Pro Kabbadi League |url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/bangalore/Bengaluru-Bulls-gear-up-for-Pro-Kabbadi-League/2014/07/21/article2340444.ece |work=The New Indian Express |date=21 July 2014 |first=Svetlana|last=Lasrado}}
2. ^{{Cite web |url=http://freepressjournal.in/air-india-haryana-sports-emerge-champs/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=9 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140910200530/http://freepressjournal.in/air-india-haryana-sports-emerge-champs/ |archive-date=10 September 2014 |dead-url=yes |df=dmy-all }}
3. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.bengalurubulls.com/player/ajay-thakur-2/ |title=Ajay Thakur |publisher=Bengaluru Bulls |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140905172343/http://www.bengalurubulls.com/player/ajay-thakur-2/ |archivedate=5 September 2014}}
4. ^{{cite news |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/Kabaddi-fever-peaks-for-tonights-finale/articleshow/41289235.cms |title=Kabaddi fever peaks for tonight’s finale |work=Times of India |date=31 August 2014 |agency=TNN}}
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12 : 1986 births|Living people|Indian kabaddi players|Asian Games medalists in kabaddi|Kabaddi players at the 2014 Asian Games|Kabaddi players at the 2018 Asian Games|Kabaddi players from Himachal Pradesh|People from Solan district|Asian Games gold medalists for India|Asian Games bronze medalists for India|Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games|Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games

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