Pro Kabaddi 2018 highlights:Dabang Delhi beat Bengal Warriors in a thriller

Bengal Warriors will look to win their remaining 4 matches to finish at the top of PKL Zone B point table.

7:23 PM

Pro Kabaddi 2018, Day 66: Bengal Warriors vs Dabang Delhi

BENGAL WARRIORS DEFENCE WILL LOOK TO CONTINUE THEIR FORM AGAINST DELHI RAIDERS

 

• Bengal Warriors with their win against Patna Pirates clinched qualification into the playoffs. 

• Their final position in the group is yet to be decided, but qualification is done. 

• The win against Patna came on the back of a brilliant defensive performance from the entire Bengal defence.

• They produced their best defensive showing of the season, scoring 15 tackle points, to ensure that Patna’s raiders didn’t cause much damage. 

o Pardeep Narwal was able to score only 7 raid points. (7 failed raids)

o Manjeet had just 2 raid points.

• Surjeet Singh and Ran Singh both had a strong game scoring 4 tackle points each with identical tackle SR of 67.

• Ziaur Rahman had a good showing as well picking up 3 tackle points from his 7 tackles. 

• It was the kind of performance that Bengal’s defence has not displayed too many times this season. 

• Bengal Warriors are one of only 2 teams in PKL 6, along with Haryana Steelers, where no defender has been able to touch 50 tackle points yet. 

• Surjeet Singh is their leading tackle point scorer at the moment with 43 tackle points and has a chance to become the first. 

Bengal Warriors Leading Defenders – PKL 2018
Defender	Surjeet Singh	Ran Singh	Baldev Singh
Matches	18	17	12
Tackle Pts.	43	34	24
HIGH 5s	3	0	1
Avg. Tackle Pts.	2.4	2.0	2.0

 

6:48 PM

Pro Kabaddi 2018, Day 66: Key stats ahead of Bengal Warriors vs Dabang Delhi encounter

• Jang Kun Lee (KOL) is 10 short of 400 raid points in PKL.

• Surjeet Singh (KOL) is 7 short of 50 tackle points in PKL 6.

• Meraj Sheykh (DEL) is 4 short of 300 raid points in PKL.

• Shabeer Bappu (DEL) is 9 short of 200 raid points in PKL.

• Chandran Ranjit (DEL) is 9 short of 200 raid points in PKL.

• Joginder Narwal (DEL) is 5 short of 50 tackle points in PKL 6. 

 

6:47 PM

Pro Kabaddi 2018, Day 66: Bengal Warriors vs Dabang Delhi

• Bengal Warriors PKL 2018: 10 wins, 6 losses, 2 ties. Won their last match against Patna Pirates by 16 points.

o Won 3 of their last 5 matches. (3 consecutive wins)  

• Dabang Delhi PKL 2018: 10 wins, 9 losses, 2 ties. Tied their last match against Jaipur Pink Panthers 37-37.

o Won 3 of their last 5 matches (1 tie, 1 loss).

 

6:45 PM

Pro Kabaddi 2018, Day 66: Bengal Warriors vs Dabang Delhi

HEAD to HEAD (OVERALL)

 

Matches – 10 | Bengal Warriors – 5 | Dabang Delhi - 4 | Tie - 1 

• Bengal Warriors have won 5 times while Dabang Delhi have won 4 times in the 10 meetings between these 2 teams. 

• One of the matches has ended in a tie. 

• They have played once before in PKL 6 which Dabang Delhi won 39-30 (M#27):

o The Delhi defence produced an excellent display against Maninder Singh to restrict him to just 6 raid points.

o Ravinder Pahal and Joginder Narwal both had 4 tackle points each.

o Naveen Kumar top scored for Delhi with 11 raid points.

o Jang Kun Lee had 10 raid points for Bengal Warriors.

o Surjeet Singh was the only Bengal defender to score tackle points in this match (2 tackle points).  

o It was Bengal’s worst ever defensive performance of PKL (2 tackle pts). 

 

6:30 PM

PKL 2018 today match schedule: Bengal Warriors vs Dabang Delhi