Puneri Paltans defeated Bengal Warriors and Delhi beat Jaipur Pink Panthers by the same margins. Puneri Paltans registered their first win of the tournament while Delhi dominated Jaipur Pink Panthers. It was great performance by winning teams.
Pune started the raid with Wazir earning a point. Lee also earned a point in his and teams first raid.next Amit also earned a touch point an then the next raid Wazir and Dinesh of Pune were caught in their raids. Lee equalled the score at 3-3 in the next raid. Pravin was caught in his next raid to give lead to Kolkata.
Strindberg Singh had successful touch but was pushed out of court before touching midline. Next Wazir and Lee were caught in their raid to take the score to 5-5. Vignesh’s raid next also earned a point to take Kolkata to 6. Both sides replaced one player each in 9th minute. In a do or die raid that was empty was declared out adding another point to Kolkata.
Rajput in a do or die raid Rajput asked a touch point that was negated and he was declared out and Pune were awarded 2 points to equal the score at 7 in 13th minute. In a do or die raid Praveen earned a point for Pune. Dinesh of Kolkata was thrown out of court after touching an opponent thus equalling score at 8 all. Wazir earned a touch point in next raid.
Dinesh Kumar had 6 empty raid of the day. Lee was caught in next raid taking Pune to 10 points. In a do or die raid Surendra was declared out and Kolkata earned point. Praveen Nawale had super raid earning 3 points to take Pune to 13-9. Next Rajput was caught. With last man Wazir was touched and Kolkata were all out taking Puneri Paltans score to 17-10 at half time.
Vineet of Kolkata was pushed out in his raid. Praveen was also caught in next raid.wazir was also caught after Dinesh was given out. Kolkata earned 2 points in Lee’s next raid taking Bengal Warriors to 14. The feat was repeated by Pravin Niwale in the very next raid to take the score to 22-14 in favor of Pune in 25th minute. In next do or die raid Praveen succeeded. Tariq was caught in next raid leaving only 2 players. Wazir touched one player another (Lee) crossed the back line thus earning all out points for the second time in the match to take the score to 28-14 in favor of Puneri Paltans.
Kun Lee was pushed out by Ravi in the next raid. Rajput earned a touch point followed by another raid of 2 touch points. In a do or die raid Surender earned a bonus point followed by a touch point earned by Dinesh leaving only 3 players of which one each was out in a raid and 2 tackle points and getting first all out point to Kolkata to reduce the gap to 24-30 at the end of 34th minute when time out was taken. Rajput earned 25th point and Kolkata asked for review of bonus point that was successful taking score to 26.
Next, Dinesh of Bengal Warriors was captured in a raid taking Pune to 31. In a do or die raid Surender was caught to move to 27. Rajput was also caught taking Puneri Paltans to 32 just 2 minutes before final whistle. Kolkata was awarded a bonus point followed by Lee was pushed out after touching 2 player. Finally Puneri Paltans won the match 33-29 and registered their first win.
Revitalized after yesterday’s win,Jaipur Pink Panthers fielded 2 raiders, one all rounder and 4 defenders. DD fielded 5 defenders and 2 raiders. DDs raids started from 2 successful raids of Kashiling Adke. There on they earned point in tackle and touch points regularly and in sixth minute earned all out points. Both raids and tackles of Jaipur Pink Pantherswere not successful in the first 10 minutes. Later they recovered some lost ground but were trailing 10-17 at half time.
Adke started the raid after break also. Rajesh Narwal was caught in the first raid after break. Rohit Choudhary was caught getting JPP 2 points. The team earned next raid point also to reach 13. In a do or die raid both teams earned a point each. Jasvir’s eighth raid of the day also went empty. Do or die raid Rohit earned a point. Mallesh was caught in next raid taking DD to 22-14. Adke touched one player and last player was tackled earning second all out to DD and score was 26-15 in favor of Delhi. In Next two raids both teams earned one touch point each.
Jasvir was tackled and caught in his next raid. JPP took strategic time out 10 minutes before final whistle score standing at 27-17. Kashiling was caught in a do or die raid after JPP earned a touch point,bridging the gap by 2 points. Rohit earned a touch point in next raid for DD and Mohammed was caught in another unsuccessful raid to take Delhi to 30-19. Kuldeep earned 2 touch points to reduce the gap to 9 points six minutes before final whistle.
Rajesh earned a point pushing a player in the lobby. Rajesh was caught in next raid. Dabang Delhi started easy tackle taking no risk. Rohit and Jasvir earned a point each in next raids. Jasvir was captured again. Last was a super raid for Jaipur Pink Panthers but Delhi Dabang won the match at 35-27 very comfortably. Rohit earned best raiders award and defender was also Ravnder Pahal with 8 successes. Amit Singh won best moment award. The next stop in the Pro Kabaddi League moves to Patna from tomorrow. U Mumba is at 1st place, followed Bulls, Telegu Titans and Delhi after the 3rd leg.