Noida, 2 December (Hindustan Reporter). Thanks to the brilliant game of Devank (13) and Ayaan (8), three-time champion Patna Pirates defeated Bengal Warriors 38-35 in the points table by defeating Bengal Warriors 38-35 in the 88th match of the 11th season of Pro Kabaddi League played at Noida Indoor Stadium on Sunday night. Has secured second place.
Patna has got its ninth win in 15 matches. Apart from Devank and Ayaan, Deepak scored five points and Ankit scored three points while for Bengal, star raider Maninder Singh scored Super-10. Nitin also scored 6 points while Sagar scored four points from defence.
Bengal had taken a lead of 5-4 in the first four minutes due to the brilliant raids of Maninder, but Devank made the score 5-5 by dismissing Mayur Kadam and then Ankit caught Maninder to put Patna ahead 6-5. . After this, both the teams got 2-2 points and then Fazal made the score 8-8 by hunting Ayaan in the 8th minute.
However, Devank equalized his partner’s account by dismissing Fazal and then Ayaan, who came back after reviving, dismissed Siddesh and put Patna ahead by 11-9 by the end of the 10th minute. Now a super tackle was on for Bengal but Prannoy not only avoided this situation with a two-point raid but also made the score 11-11. Then Sagar tackled Devank and gave Bengal the lead. However, Patna again leveled the score at 13-13.
However, Siddesh dismissed Sudhakar and made a super tackle for Patna. Shubham took advantage of this by catching Maninder on a do or die raid and put Patna ahead by 15-14.
Bengal then reduced the gap to 1 but Devank put Patna ahead 19-15 at halftime with a multi-point raid. Then Devank made it 22-17 after halftime with a super raid and pushed Bengal towards all out. And then executed it and took the lead of 27-18.
After the match, Patna maintained the gap of 10 points by taking 3 points against 2. And then taking it to 11, putting Bengal in a super tackle situation.
However, Sagar reduced the gap a bit by super tackling Devank. Then Fazal made a super tackle on Devank and made the score 25-33 at the end of 30 minutes.
Bengal team remained in the match on the basis of super tackle. Mayur made the score 27-34 with another super tackle against Ayaan and then Vishwas reduced the gap to 5 by dismissing Akram and Deepak. Patna, however, strengthened its position with a lead of 8 points. From here Patna’s victory seemed certain.
However, after this Maninder and Sagar took some points to reduce the gap to 3 but by then it was too late and Bengal could not break its losing streak and were forced to suffer their ninth defeat of the season.