PKL 2022 Highlights: Haryana Steelers robbed a victory from Puneri Paltan as the contest between both the teams ended in a nail-biting tie in Pro Kabaddi League on 28th October, Friday at the Shree Shivchattrapati Sports Complex at Balewadi in Pune. Earlier, Tamil Thalaivas began their reign under coach Ashan Kumar with a big victory against Jaipur Pink Panthers. Patna Pirate defeated UP Yoddhas in the final contest of the night. Follow PKL 2022 LIVE updates & Check PKL 2022 Points TABLE with InsideSport.IN
Match Day 18 LIVE:
Match 42 || Tamil Thalaivas BEAT Jaipur Pink Panthers – 38-27
Match 43 || Haryana Steelers TIE WITH Puneri Paltan – 27-27
Match 44 || Patna Pirates BEAT UP Yoddhas – 34-29
PKL 2022 Points Table
| Teams | P | W | L | D | PTS | SD |
| Dabang Delhi K.C. | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 27 | 49 |
| Puneri Paltan | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 27 | 1 |
| Jaipur Pink Panthers | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 26 | 54 |
| Bengaluru Bulls | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 24 | 18 |
| Bengal Warriors | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 21 | 37 |
| Haryana Steelers | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 21 | 12 |
| U Mumba | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 21 | -3 |
| UP Yoddha | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 19 | -15 |
| Gujarat Giants | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 19 | -15 |
| Patna Pirates | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 18 | -34 |
| Tamil Thalaivas | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 15 | -34 |
| Telugu Titans | 7 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 7 | -80 |
PKL 2022 Highlights: Sachin gives Patna Pirates clinical victory against UP Yoddha. Haryana Steelers pull off a tie against Puneri Paltan. Tamil Thalaivas clinch big victory against Jaipur Pink Panthers on Triple Panga night: Check Highlights
Tamil Thalaivas vs Jaipur Pink Panthers
The Tamil Thalaivas started their Pune leg with renewed energy and came out all guns blazing under their new Head coach Ashan Kumar in the Pro Kabaddi League Season 9 at the Shree Shivchhatrapati Sports Complex, Balewadi, Pune on Friday.
Narender put up a superb performance with 13 points in the match and helped the Thalaivas register a 38-27 victory over Jaipur Pink Panthers. The Tamil Thalaivas got off to a stupendous start as they inflicted an ALL OUT in the 6th minute and took a massive lead at 12-1. V Ajith Kumar tried to fight back for the Panthers, but Thalaivas’ defender M Abishek stood tall as his team continued to extend their lead.
The team from Tamil Nadu tackled Arjun Deshwal in the 14th minute and attained a 12-point lead at 17-5. The defenders were backed up brilliantly by Narender’s raids as the Thalaivas led at 20-8 in the end of the first half. Narender tackled Sunil Kumar and helped the Tamil side inflict an ALL OUT in the opening minutes of the second half. Defender Himanshu also joined the party as the Thalaivas took a 16-point lead at 27-11 in the 28th minute.
Deshwal effected a fantastic raid, but the Panthers couldn’t find a way to pick up points consistently. Narender continued to carry out raids as the Thalaivas dominated the match at 32-16 in the 35th minute. The Panthers inflicted an ALL OUT in the 37th minute, but the Tamil side still held a big lead at 32-23. The Thalaivas kept raging on and eventually closed out a comprehensive victory.
Patna Pirates vs UP Yoddhas
In what turned out to be a nail-biting clash, UP Yoddhas went down with a slender margin of 5 points 29-34 against Patna Pirates on the first day of second leg of Pro Kabaddi League season 9 here at Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex, Pune. Star raider Pardeep Narwal notching up yet another Super 10, his third of the season was a treat to watch today when he did a 5 Points Super Raid on his former team.
In the end, the UP Yoddhas had to pay the price for some defensive errors at crucial moments of the match. Pardeep Narwal, Rohit Tomar and Surender Gill earned 12, 5 and 4 points respectively from the game. UP Yoddhas will next play Telugu Titans on 31st October, 2022.
The one point gained from the match however improved their position to eighth on the table from the ninth position that they had begun the day with. They now have 19 points from seven games so far.
UP Yoddhas decided to defend after winning the toss and started on a slow note as they trailed by 4 points in the early minutes where the scorecard was read 7-3 in the favor of Patna Pirates. However the first Super Tackle of the match inflicted by Nitesh and company followed by some touch and bonus points from Pardeep and Gill deficit a lead to just 1 point with 4 minutes left to the first half but Patna Pirates somehow managed to end the first half in their favor 13-11.
That gap soon widened to eight upon commencement as the UP Yoddhas suffered the first All Out of the match. Then with just over 12 minutes left on the clock, the one and only Pardeep Narwal executed a five-point Super Raid to narrow the gap to 20-21.
With less than 10 mins left the scores were tied 23-23 and with five to go the Patna Pirates had regained a two-point advantage to go up 27-25.
A super tackle by the UP Yoddhas brought the scores back level at 28-28 with two minutes to go and with just over a minute left the Pirates called for a time out being a point ahead. With Patna Pirates raider coming in for a final raid, another defensive error by the UP Yoddhas meant that they suffered a second All Out and with that all hopes of winning the match and the game ended in Patna’s favor 34-29.
Haryana Steelers vs Puneri Paltan
Patna Pirates picked up their second win in the vivo Pro Kabaddi League Season 9 at the Shree Shivchhatrapati Sports Complex, Balewadi in Pune after defeating U.P. Yoddhas 34-29 in the last game of the evening on Friday.
The two sides played out a neck and neck contest right from the start. The Pirates kicked off the action by picking up the first points of the match. This match-up was drawn to be a test of the Pirates’ defence against the Yoddhas’ raiding duo of Pardeep Narwal and Surender Gill. And to their credit, the Pirates defenders kept the duo silent through the first half allowing them barely any inroads on the attack. On almost every metric, the two teams were level, and going into the break, the Pirates led by a mere two points at 13-11.
After a fairly tepid first period, the game sparked to life four minutes into the second half, when Pirates’ raider Sachin effected consecutive successful raids to put the Yoddhas on the brink of an all out. Mohammadreza Shadloui Chiyaneh’s brilliant tackle on Gill gave them an easy chance to get one. They got the first ALL OUT of the game to extend their lead at 19-11.
That setback sparked the Yoddhas and in particular Narwal, to life. Within minutes, the PKL veteran had executed one of the raids of the season so far, his SUPER RAID catching out five Pirates players — Manish, Rohit Gulia, Chiyaneh, Sunil and Sachin to reduce them to one player on the mat. Soon enough the Yoddhas had an ALL OUT of their own and took the lead at 23-21.
The Pirates rallied from that shocking setback to seize control of the game again and had the Yoddhas cornered and bracing for another all out. Right on the brink, a SUPER TACKLE by Rohit Tomar on Sachin drew the teams level and set up a nervy final two minutes.
With barely 20 seconds left, on the second last raid of the night, on a DO OR DIE raid, with all to lose, Sachin pulled off a SUPER RAID and effected a second ALL OUT on the Yoddhas, to hand his team a hard-fought victory.
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