PKL 2019, Day 53 highlights: Bengal Warriors crush Haryana Steelers 48-36

The Bengal Warriors vs Haryana Steelers match will begin at 7:30 pm IST.

7:34 PM

A touch point for Maninder Singh; 4-2

7:34 PM

An empty raid from both the teams

7:32 PM

Maninder Singh scores a touch point; 3-2

7:32 PM

A touch point for Vinay; 2-2

7:31 PM

Prapanjan makes an empty raid

7:31 PM

A bonus point for Prashanth Kumar Rai but gets tackled; 2-1

7:31 PM

Maninder Singh starts with a touch point; 1-0

7:30 PM

Vikas Kandola starts with an empty raid

7:30 PM

Vikas Kandola starts with an empty raid

7:29 PM

Bengal Warriors Win The Toss & Select The Choice Of Court

7:29 PM

Both the teams arrive at the mat, match to begin in a minute

7:18 PM

Bengal vs Haryana: Here is the starting seven of both the teams

Bengal Warriors	Vs.	Haryana Steelers
Baldev Singh	Right Corner	Sunil
Mohammed Nabibakhsh	Right In	Vinay
Mayur Shivtarkar	Right Cover	Vikas Kale
Maninder Singh ©	Center	Vikas Kandola
Jeeva Kumar	Left Cover	Ravi Kumar
Sukesh Hegde	Left In	Prashanth Kumar Rai
Rinku Narwal	Left Corner	Dharmaraj Cheralathan ©

 

7:16 PM

Nabibakhsh: The New Star In Bengal Defence Of Late

• Bengal Warriors have 4 defenders with 20+ tackle points this season. Of late, Mohammad Nabibakhsh has been the star in the defence. Among Bengal’s defenders this season, Nabibakhsh has the 2nd best tackle strike rate (55).

 

Bengal Warriors Defenders - PKL 7
Defender	Tackles	Tackle Points	Avg Tackle Pts	Tackle SR
Baldev Singh	77	44	2.8	57
Rinku Narwal	86	42	2.6	49
Jeeva Kumar	66	26	1.7	39
Mohammad Nabibakhsh	44	24	1.6	55

 

• Only two players have scored 50+ raid points and 20+ tackle points this season. One among them is Nabibakhsh, who has been a genuine all-rounder this season.

Players to have scored 50+ raid pts and 20+ tackle pts - PKL 7
Player	Raid Pts	Tackle Pts
Manjeet	92	26
Nabibakhsh	62	24

• In the last match against Bengaluru, he registered his first HIGH 5 in his PKL career. In fact, he has been the one who has gone for more tackles (16) and has been the most successful one (10 tackle points with a tackle SR of 63)  among Bengal defenders in the last 2 matches.

Bengal Defenders - Last 2 Matches
Player	Tackles	Tackle Pts	Tackle SR
Mohammad Nabibakhsh	16	10	63
Rinku Narwal	11	4	36
Baldev Singh	7	3	43
Jeeva Kumar	9	2	22

 

7:07 PM

Player Head-To-Head

(All figures overall PKL; figure in brackets shows since PKL 6)

 

• Maninder Singh (KOL) 2 – 3 Sunil (HAR) [All since PKL 6]

• Maninder Singh (KOL) 5 – 0 Ravi Kumar (HAR) [4-0 since PKL 6]

• Maninder Singh (KOL) 12 – 3 Vikas Kale (HAR) [All since PKL 6]

• Maninder Singh (KOL) 3 – 2 Dharmaraj Cheralathan (HAR) [1-2 since PKL 6]

• Sukesh Hegde (KOL) 4 – 2 Dharmaraj Cheralathan (HAR)

• K. Prapanjan (KOL) 8 – 2 Sunil (HAR) [All since PKL 6]

• K. Prapanjan (KOL) 1 – 3 Dharmaraj Cheralathan (HAR) [1-2 since PKL 6]

• Vikas Kandola (HAR) 4 – 4 Jeeva Kumar (KOL) [1-3 since PKL 6]

• Vikas Kandola (HAR) 4 – 0 Rinku Narwal (KOL) [All since PKL 6]

• Vikas Kandola (HAR) 3 – 1 Baldev Singh (KOL) [All since PKL 6]

• Prashanth Kumar Rai (HAR) 2 – 2 Jeeva Kumar (KOL) [0-1 since PKL 6]

• Vinay (HAR) 2 – 1 Rinku Narwal (KOL) [All since PKL 6]

 

7:06 PM

Haryana Raiders in D-o-D Raids

• All of Haryana’s raiders have a D-O-D raid SR above 50. This gives Haryana the luxury of sending any of the other 3 raiders in Vinay, Prashanth Kumar Rai or Naveen to keep Vikas Kandola in the mat in pressure situations.

Haryana Raiders in D-o-D Raids - PKL 2019
Raider	Raids	Successful Raids	Raid Points	Raid SR
Vikas Kandola	36	19	25	69
Vinay	14	7	11	79
Naveen	17	9	10	59
Prashanth Kumar Rai	7	4	5	71

 

• Courtesy of an all-round show from the entire raid unit, Haryana has been the best in D-o-D situation with a raid SR of 65 this season.

Best D-o-D Raid SR - PKL 7
Team	Raid SR
Haryana Steelers	65
Dabang Delhi	60
Jaipur Pink Panthers	59
U Mumba	59