Patna Pirates beat Bengal Warriors in the first match of the day at the Kanterva Stadium, Bengalru just few moments ago. It was a nail biting match as both teams played an excellent game and Patna won the match in the last raid.
Sunil Jaipal the captain for the day for BW, who played 4 raiders, 2 defenders and one all rounder. Sandeep Narwal lead PP. Sunil won the toss and elected the court. Today’s match PP has a great stake as a win here will earn them a semifinal position. First raid by Ravi Dalal had an empty raid. Rajput started raid for BW and had also an empty raid. Second raid for both teams had empty raids. In do or die raid Ravi Dala earned touch point. Sunil earned a bonus point in their do or die raid. Mahinder was tackled poorly and claimed super raid and took their score to 4-2. Rajput again had empty raid. In Do or die raid Ravi Dalal was declared out.
In the next raid by Sunil PP earned super tackle narrowing the gap only to 1 point. Sandeep Narwal earned a touch point to equal the score at 5 all in first 8 minutes play. Rajput I do or die raid was tackled and captured, Patna taking lead. Gurvinder got a super raid next taking PP to 9. Bengal Warriors was all out as the last man was pushed out of court taking Patna Pirates to 13-6 lead. Lee earned 3 points one for bonus and 2 players out in next raid. Ravi Dalal was pushed out in next raid narrowing the gap only to 3 points.
Rajput slipped out of Sandeep Narwal’s grip to earn a point. Both the teams were taking risk only in do and die raids by and large. Gurvinder in do or die raid raid earned 2 points as Deepak made poor effort of tackling. Sunil Jaipal was tackled in his next raid taking PP to 17-11 lead. Gurvinder in the do or die raid succeeded to earn 1 point. Lee in Do or die raid earned a point as Sunil made a poor effort to tackle and failed. At half time Patna was leading 18-12. First half registered 3 super raids.
After resuming Sandeep Narwal and Vikas Kale had empty raid. Ravi Dala earned 3 points again as the tackle failed and he touched the mid line with his extended leg. Kedar Lal also earned 3 points avoiding imminent all out. Sandeep Narwal achieved an super tackle. Sunil earned a touch point taking the score to 21-18 in favor of Patna. Deepak Narwal earned 2 points in next raid when he came as substitute for defender. BW earned a super tackle pushing Deepak out of court reducing the gap to 2.
Amit Hooda had an empty raid. In a do or die raid vigil crossed the back line. Lee took 2 points in next raid taking advantage of a poor tackle.Sandeep Narwal was touched out and Ravi Dalal was tackled and PP was al out taking Bengal Warriors the lead of 27-26 for the first time in the match today. Today’s top 2 Raiders were Gurvinder (10)Ravi Dalal (6) so far.
Gurvinder earned 2 points again slipping out of tacklers.Sunil,also earned 2 touch points. Next raider was also tackled taking BW to 30-28 lead. Sunil Jaipal was tackled in do or die raid to take the score to 30 all five minutes before final whistle. Kun Lee was tackled next in his raid, followed by Deepak NarwL’s tackle. Girish was tackled in his first raid Vikas hCan empty raid. Deepak Narwal was tackled by Shyam Sha. Rajput in do or die raid was tackled by Girish taking Patna Pirates to 33-32 lead. Sunil Jaipal was tackled and captured in his last raid of the day Patna Pirates winning by 34-32.