Bengaluru Bulls beat Puneri Paltans in the second match of the day at Pune just few moments ago. It was another good performance by Bulls and Pune who were testing their bench strength. It was neck to neck match.
In the last match Pune was playing depleted Bengaluru Bulls and started leading the point tally. They got BB all out in 10 minute and leading 10-6. Pune continued good raids sand leading 13-7. In the next raid they asked for a review saying that only 2 players were out that was unsuccessful, resulting in super raid and Bengaluru reaching 10th point. Ravi Kumar was tackled reducing the gap to only 2 points of 13-11.
Ravi had empty raid. In do or die raid Deepak failed tackling effort by taking a jump and reaching mid line. Pune was all out with Manjeet Chillar’s raid taking their score to 16-13 in 15th minute. Sachin V earned a point to narrow the gap to only 1 point. Pramod Narwal converted his raid into super raid taking the score to 19-15. Ravi also had a god raid to get their 16th point. Sachin’s empty raid ended at half time when BB was leading 19-16
Sachin V failed crossing mid line as Chillar tacked him well and pushed out of court. Deepak Dahiya and Manoj Kumar had empty raids. Manoj Kumar was declared out as he did not have successful do or die raid. Balamahendran had empty raid. Rakesh Narwal earned 2 touch points slipping out of tackling effort taking B to 23. In the next raid Balmahenderan earned 2 touch points and a bonus point to take Pune’s score to 20. Bengaluru Bulls asked for review claiming that defender crossed the back line which was successful taking their score to 25.
Sachin V in do or die raid was converted into super raid and Pune reached 23 points. In do or die raid Rakesh Narwal was pushed out of court do do die raid the raider went in lobby that took Bengaluru Bulls to 26-24. Both teams were waiting of do or die raid in which both teams succeeded in tackling the opponent player taking Bengaluru Bulls to 27-25. Both teams had 2 empty raids each.
Ashish Kumar in do or die raid earned a point. Balmahendran in do or die raid failed the tackling effort in last few seconds and got 2 players out taking the score of Pune to 27 and just a point short of Bengaluru Bulls score. Ashish was tackled by Ravi in a do or die raid equalling the score at 28 just less than 3 minutes before final Buzzer. Balmahendran was super tackled and Bengaluru Bulls surged ahead by 2 points.
Bengaluru took time out to strategize maintaining the lead. Sachin V was poorly tackled by Chillar and the lead reduced to just one point. In do or die raid Deepak Dahiya earned a touch point. In the last raid Sachin V also earned a point. The match was won by Bengaluru Bulls by just one point.