Sportskeeda's Top 10 Indian sportsmen of the year 2017

#4 Pardeep Narwal (Kabaddi)

Pardeep Narwal was a cut above the rest this year

Three Pro Kabaddi League titles, multiple National Championship titles, a World Cup title and most recently, the Asian Championship title. All of these are held by the indomitable Pardeep Narwal and that too at the age of just 20!

He might not strike as a sporting superstar at first sight but for those who have watched him strut his stuff on the mat, he is perhaps the most dominant player in the world of kabaddi and makes raiding look like child's play. The sheer elegance of his movements and the cold-blooded terror he instils in the minds of opposition defenders with his cat-like reflexes are certainly a joy to behold.

In the three-month-long Pro Kabaddi League Season 5 this year, which featured the biggest talents in the sport across the world, he stood a level above all the other players and almost single-handedly took his team, the Patna Pirates, to victory in a 12-team competition.

He picked up a total of 369 points along the way, which featured 19 Super 10s, and also broke the record for the most raid points in a single game (34) against Haryana, which featured a scarcely believable eight-point raid. At 20, he was also the captain of the side, leading his charges by example.

He was also part of the Indian team that won the Asian Championships in Iran, playing a crucial role from the start in the big matches. Young Pardeep can only go upwards from here and it is scary to imagine the heights he can achieve in 2018 if he continues in the same vein!