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Noida, 21 November (Hindustan Reporter). In a thrilling match on Do or Die Raid, Telugu Titans defeated U Mumba and secured fifth place in the points table of the 11th season of Pro Kabaddi League. In this match played on Wednesday night at Noida Indoor Stadium, Titans defeated Mumba by a margin of 31-29.
This is the seventh win for the Titans in 11 matches this season. With the help of this victory, he has jumped two places in the points table. On the other hand, Mumba has suffered its fourth defeat in 12 matches. Ashish Narwal scored 8 points for Titans while Sagar scored four points from defence. For Mumba, Rohit took 8 points and Manjeet took seven points.
The Titans, who were without Pawan Sehrawat, looked confident in the beginning and took a 5-3 lead within five minutes thanks to Manjeet, Shankar and Vinay. However, in the defense of four, Sunil hunted Ashish and made the score 4-5 and then Zafar made the score 5-5.
After this, Somveer caught Vijay and gave Mumba the lead for the first time but Sagar caught Zafar and then equalized the score. After 10 minutes, however, Mumba were leading 8-7. After the break, Sagar made a mistake against Zafar. Now the super tackle was on for the Titans.
Ashish dismissed Sunil and made the score 8-9 and then Ajit dismissed Zafar and made the score 9-9. Both teams were playing on do or die raid. With the score at 11-11, Mumba took the lead of 12-11 by trapping Ashish in a similar raid but by halftime the Titans equalized the score again.
Even after halftime, both the teams were playing on do or die raid. Sagar caught Manjeet to give Titans a lead of 13-12 and in a similar raid, Manjeet made the score 15-12 with a multi-point raid. There was a super tackle for Mumba, which she could not take advantage of. The Titans were now leading 19–14.
Although Mumba took five points against three after the all-out, despite this, the Titans had a lead of 22-19 at the end of 30 minutes. After the break, Titans took two consecutive points to reduce the gap to 5. Then the Titans defense again hunted Zafar and reduced the gap to 6.
However, Mumba made a comeback with a super tackle by making the score 22-26. Then Rohit reduced the gap to 3 with a point on a do or die raid. Rohit did not stop there and made the score 26-24 with his second consecutive point. The Titans, however, stopped Mumba’s comeback with a super tackle.
But Rohit was not ready to accept defeat. With a multi-point raid he made the score 27-28. However, after this he was super tackled. Ashish had put Titans ahead 30-27. After this, Mumba’s defense caught Ashish and reduced the distance to 2. Then Manjeet reduced the distance to 1.
Chetan Sahu scored a point on the last raid to give victory to the Titans. With this win, Titans have reached the top-6 while Mumba will have to wait more to reach the top.