Patna Pirates Squad 2026: Every Player’s Career Stats
One man has scored more raid points than almost anyone who has ever played the sport. Maninder Singh’s 1,568 career raid points alone would headline most franchises’ entire roster story, and he is just one name on a Patna Pirates squad still chasing a fourth title after years of near misses since their historic three-peat.
Patna Pirates’s current squad is built around raiding legend Maninder Singh, defensive contributor Ankit, and a wide supporting cast still building its own public statistical record. This guide profiles every documented member of the squad individually and explains how this exact roster came together heading into the new season, position by position and player by player.
Patna Pirates Squad & Playing Style Heading Into the New Season
Patna Pirates’s identity has been built around Maninder Singh’s raiding for years, and the rest of the roster is largely constructed to support that single dominant weapon rather than to provide a second equally proven scoring threat. That approach paid off spectacularly during the Season 12 postseason, when three consecutive knockout wins showed exactly how dangerous this team becomes once its raiding star finds rhythm.
The challenge for Patna is that leaning this heavily on one player creates real risk if Maninder Singh has an off night or faces an especially well-drilled defense. Their seventh-place league finish, despite reaching the Eliminator 3 stage of the playoffs, suggests the supporting cast beyond Maninder Singh and Ankit still has ground to make up before the team can compete for the title on a consistent basis rather than through occasional flashes of knockout magic.
Why Squad Depth Matters More Than It Looks
A roster this dependent on one raider needs its supporting raiders to develop quickly. Ayan, Deepak, and Sahil Patil may not carry published career numbers yet, but any of them could be asked to shoulder a bigger raiding workload if Maninder Singh needs rest during a long league stage spread across multiple host cities and venue legs.
The same logic applies even more urgently on defense, where Patna’s backline beyond Ankit remains almost entirely undocumented at the statistical level. Depth defenders like Navdeep, Thiyagarajan Yuvaraj, and Saurabh will need to develop into genuinely reliable contributors if the team hopes to build the kind of settled defensive identity that carried their historic three-peat between Season 3 and Season 5.
How This Squad Was Built
Patna Pirates’s roster reflects the league’s most historically successful franchise, still built around continuity and proven performers even during a rebuilding stretch. Head coach Anup Kumar’s Season 12 campaign showed exactly what this roster can do once it finds momentum, turning a seventh-place league finish into three consecutive knockout wins.
Understanding exactly how the auction system, retention limits, and player categories work is covered in our PKL Season 13 auction guide, which explains the same rules Patna Pirates used to assemble this squad.
Raiders
Maninder Singh
Maninder Singh is not just Patna Pirates’s best player. He is one of the highest-scoring raiders the sport has ever produced, a genuine all-time great who has carried multiple franchises across a career spanning nearly a decade.
Career Stats
Across 165 career matches spanning nine seasons, Maninder has built up 1,568 raid points and roughly 16 tackle points, for a career total of 1,584 points. That volume of raiding output, sustained across nearly a decade of competition, places him among the very highest career scorers in PKL history regardless of which franchise he has represented along the way, and his continued production even deep into his career remains genuinely rare by the standards of a physically demanding sport.
Ayan
Ayan is part of the raiding rotation supporting Maninder Singh. No consolidated public career statistics record currently exists for him.
Deepak
Deepak adds further raiding depth to the squad. His individual career numbers have not been compiled into any single public source at this stage.
Sahil Patil
Sahil Patil rounds out the raiding options behind Patna’s more established performers. A public career statistics profile for him has not yet been consolidated.
Sudhakar M
Sudhakar M gives the coaching staff another raiding option to rotate through the lineup. Career totals for him are not currently tracked in a single accessible record.
Milan
Milan completes part of the raiding depth chart for Patna Pirates. As with several teammates in similar squad roles, detailed public career numbers are not yet widely published.
Ankit
A raider named Ankit features on the roster, distinct from the all-rounder Ankit elsewhere on the squad. No consolidated public career record currently exists for him.
Mandeep
Mandeep rounds out the raiding rotation for Patna Pirates. His statistical history has not been consolidated into any single accessible profile at this time.
Defenders
Navdeep
Navdeep is part of the defensive rotation for Patna Pirates. No consolidated public career statistics record currently exists for him.
Thiyagarajan Yuvaraj
Thiyagarajan Yuvaraj provides further defensive depth to the squad. His individual career numbers have not been compiled into any single public source.
Saurabh
Saurabh rounds out the defensive rotation, giving the coaching staff options to manage fatigue across a long league stage. A public career statistics profile for him has not yet been consolidated.
Prianshu
Prianshu adds to the defensive corps’ overall depth. Career totals for him are not currently tracked in a single accessible record.
Sombir
A defender named Sombir features on Patna’s roster, distinct from the Jaipur Pink Panthers raider of the same name. No consolidated public career record currently exists for him.
Balasaheb Shahaji Jadhav
Balasaheb Shahaji Jadhav is part of the broader defensive squad depth. His statistical history has not been consolidated into any single accessible profile.
Sanket Sawant
Sanket Sawant completes the wider defensive group for Patna Pirates. A consolidated public career record for him has not yet been compiled.
Deepak Rajender Singh
Deepak Rajender Singh rounds out the defensive rotation. No public career statistics profile currently exists for him in a consolidated form.
Hamid Mirzaei Nader
Hamid Mirzaei Nader is Patna Pirates’s overseas defensive addition. His playing history in the league does not currently have a consolidated public statistics profile.
Amin Ghorbani
Amin Ghorbani is a second overseas defensive signing, operating at right corner. As with several teammates in similar squad roles, detailed public career numbers are not yet widely published.
All-Rounders
Ankit (Jaglan)
Ankit gives Patna Pirates a defensively minded contributor within a hybrid role on the roster, someone the coaching staff can call on across different tactical situations.
Career Stats
Across 70 career matches spanning roughly four seasons, Ankit has built up a career total of 196 points, almost entirely from tackling. That defensive lean, despite his listed all-rounder role, shows how flexible player classifications can be in practice compared to how a franchise actually deploys someone on the mat during a real match situation.
Full Squad Career Stats Table
Here is every player’s career total where public records exist. Players without a consolidated public career record are marked accordingly rather than assigned a guessed figure.
| Player | Role | Career Matches | Career Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maninder Singh | Raider | 165 | 1,584 (1,568 raid, ~16 tackle) |
| Ankit (Jaglan) | All-rounder | 70 | 196 (near-entirely tackle points) |
| Ayan | Raider | Not publicly consolidated | Not publicly consolidated |
| Deepak | Raider | Not publicly consolidated | Not publicly consolidated |
| Sahil Patil | Raider | Not publicly consolidated | Not publicly consolidated |
| Sudhakar M | Raider | Not publicly consolidated | Not publicly consolidated |
| Milan | Raider | Not publicly consolidated | Not publicly consolidated |
| Ankit | Raider | Not publicly consolidated | Not publicly consolidated |
| Mandeep | Raider | Not publicly consolidated | Not publicly consolidated |
| Navdeep | Defender | Not publicly consolidated | Not publicly consolidated |
| Thiyagarajan Yuvaraj | Defender | Not publicly consolidated | Not publicly consolidated |
| Saurabh | Defender | Not publicly consolidated | Not publicly consolidated |
| Prianshu | Defender | Not publicly consolidated | Not publicly consolidated |
| Sombir | Defender | Not publicly consolidated | Not publicly consolidated |
| Balasaheb Shahaji Jadhav | Defender | Not publicly consolidated | Not publicly consolidated |
| Sanket Sawant | Defender | Not publicly consolidated | Not publicly consolidated |
| Deepak Rajender Singh | Defender | Not publicly consolidated | Not publicly consolidated |
| Hamid Mirzaei Nader (overseas) | Defender | Not publicly consolidated | Not publicly consolidated |
| Amin Ghorbani (overseas) | Defender (right corner) | Not publicly consolidated | Not publicly consolidated |
Notice how heavily Patna’s documented statistical weight rests on one player. Maninder Singh alone carries more career points than the rest of the roster’s tracked totals combined several times over, a genuinely unusual concentration even by PKL standards, and one that puts real pressure on the coaching staff to develop reliable secondary options before his career eventually winds down.
Why This Squad’s Postseason Run Mattered So Much
Patna Pirates finished seventh in Season 12 but produced the standout postseason story of the entire year, winning three straight knockout matches, over U Mumba, Jaipur Pink Panthers, and Bengaluru Bulls, before finally losing to Telugu Titans in Eliminator 3. That run showed exactly what this roster is capable of once Maninder Singh’s raiding clicks alongside a defense that had otherwise been inconsistent across the league stage, and it left fans wondering what might have been possible with a stronger seeding heading into the postseason.
The fuller history behind two of those meetings, including Patna’s long-running rivalries with Jaipur Pink Panthers and U Mumba, is covered in our Patna Pirates vs Jaipur Pink Panthers and Patna Pirates vs U Mumba head-to-head guides, both of which trace these fixtures back to Patna’s championship seasons.
What This Roster Means for the Season Ahead
Patna Pirates enters the new season with genuine reason for optimism, having already shown that a stronger league-stage position could translate their proven knockout composure into a run at a fourth title. Whether the wider roster beyond Maninder Singh and Ankit can build the kind of consistency that eluded them across Season 12’s eighteen-match campaign will determine how far that optimism actually carries, and it remains the single biggest question facing this franchise heading into the new year. Tracking how this roster performs against the rest of the league is easiest through our PKL points table, while our Patna Pirates team page covers the complete Season 12 recap and schedule outlook.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Patna Pirates’s leading raider?
Maninder Singh holds that distinction by a wide margin, with 1,568 career raid points across 165 matches spanning nine seasons, among the highest totals in PKL history.
How did Patna Pirates perform in the Season 12 postseason?
Patna Pirates entered from seventh place and won three consecutive knockout matches, over U Mumba, Jaipur Pink Panthers, and Bengaluru Bulls, before losing to Telugu Titans in Eliminator 3.
How many PKL titles has Patna Pirates won?
Patna Pirates have won three PKL titles, all consecutively between Season 3 and Season 5, making them the most successful franchise in league history.
Who coaches Patna Pirates?
Anup Kumar, a former India national team captain, currently coaches Patna Pirates as the franchise looks to build toward a fourth championship.
Why do most Patna Pirates players lack published career stats?
Detailed career statistics tend to be consolidated online only for established performers with heavy playing time, like Maninder Singh. Many squad depth players do not yet have a single public career record, even if they have contributed meaningful minutes for the team.
What made Patna Pirates’s Season 12 postseason run so notable?
Three consecutive knockout wins from a seventh-place league finish is an unusual achievement in PKL’s expanded playoff format, and it demonstrated the roster’s genuine upside once Maninder Singh’s raiding and the defense clicked together at the same time.
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