PKL 2019 Day 49 highlights: Haryana Steelers beat Tamil Thalaivas 43-35

Home team Puneri Paltan produced a composed performance to beat Gujarat Fortunegiants 43-33 in a Pro Kabaddi League match

7:37 PM

Do or die raid: Sachin Tanwar is tackled; 5-0

7:37 PM

Pankaj Mohite makes an empty raid

7:36 PM

Sachin Tanwar makes an empty raid

7:35 PM

Manjeet scores a touch point; 4-0

7:35 PM

Sachin Tanwar makes an empty raid

7:35 PM

Nitin Tomar scores a touch point; 3-0

7:34 PM

Harmajit Singh is tackled; 2-0

7:34 PM

A bonus point for Nitin Tomar; 1-0

7:09 PM

Pune vs Gujarat: Here is the starting seven of both the teams

Puneri Paltan	Vs.	Gujarat Fortunegiants
Hadi Tajik	Right Corner	Ankit
Nitin Tomar	Right In	Harmanjit Singh
Surjeet Singh ©	Right Cover	Sunil Kumar ©
Amit Kumar	Center	Sachin
Balasaheb Jadhav	Left Cover	Parvesh Bhainswal
Manjeet	Left In	Lalit Chaudhary
Shubham Shinde/Sagar Krishna	Left Corner	Sumit

 

7:06 PM

Haryana vs Pune: PLAYER HEAD-TO-HEAD

PLAYER HEAD-TO-HEAD

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

• Sachin (GUJ) 5 – 3 Girish Ernak (PUN) [4 – 1 since PKL 6]

• Sachin (GUJ) 4 – 3 Surjeet Singh (PUN) [1 – 1 since PKL 6]

• Rohit Gulia (GUJ) 1 – 5 Girish Ernak (PUN) [All since PKL 6]

• Rohit Gulia (GUJ) 1 – 3 Manjeet (PUN) [All since PKL 6]

• Rohit Gulia (GUJ) 3 – 0 Shubham Shinde (PUN) [All since PKL 6]

• Manjeet (PUN) 1 – 3 Sunil Kumar (GUJ) [All since PKL 6]

• Manjeet (PUN) 1 – 2 Parvesh Bhainswal (GUJ) [All since PKL 6]

• Nitin Tomar (PUN) 4 – 2 Parvesh Bhainswal (GUJ) [3-1 since PKL 6]

• Pankaj Mohite (PUN) 2 – 0 Sunil Kumar (GUJ) [All since PKL 6]

 

6:46 PM

Sunil Kumar In Super Tackles

 

• Sunil Kumar has been one of the best defenders in the team during Super Tackles. He has made 6 Super tackles this season and team combined has made only 13 Super Tackles this season. Sunil Kumar is joint 3rd in most Super Tackles made by a defender this season.

Most Super Tackles – PKL 7
Defender	Super Tackles
Vishal Bhardwaj	9
Mahender Singh	7
Monu	7
Sunil Kumar	6
Sandeep Dhull	6
Hadi Oshtorak	6

 

6:46 PM

Gujarat Defensive Unit In 4-5 DIP

• Gujarat is the best defensive unit in 4-5 DIP in the league this season. The team has a tackle SR above 60 in this formation and is one of two teams to have a minimum of 60 tackle SR.

• Puneri Paltan on the other hand have a poor performance raiding in 4-5 DIP. The team has the joint 3rd lowest Raid SR in this situation.

• It will be interesting to see how Puneri Paltan raiders overcome this problem.

Highest Tackle SR in 4-5 DIP – PKL 7
Team	Tackle SR
Gujarat Fortunegiants	67
U.P. Yoddha	60
Dabang Delhi	58
Telugu Titans	58

 

Lowest Raid SR in 4-5 DIP – PKL 7
Raider	Raid SR
Tamil Thalaivas	16
Jaipur Pink Panthers	20
U.P. Yoddha	20
Puneri Paltan	23
Telugu Titans	23

 

6:42 PM

SUNIL AND PARVESH HAVE TO CLICK TOGETHER FOR GUJARAT’S SUCCESS

 

• Sunil Kumar and Parvesh Bhainswal are the best defenders of the team. Each have scored at a Tackle SR above 50 this season. Both the defenders have a tackle point average more than 2. 

• Sunil and Parvesh have not been syncing well this season. Whenever both the defenders have scored at least 2 tackle points in the match the team has win percentage of 80%.

• But when both defenders have scored less than 2 tackle points in the match, the team has lost all the matches.

 

6:01 PM

Battle Of The Best Defences This Season – Puneri Paltan Vs Gujarat Fortunegiants

 

• Puneri Paltan and Gujarat Fortunegiants have been defence dominated teams this season and both these teams’ success have been dependent on it.

• Puneri Paltan have been dominant in scoring in the defence. The team has the highest tackle point average in the league this season.

• On the other hand Gujarat Fortunegiants have been good in converting the tackles. Gujarat has the highest Tackle SR this season. They have scored 1 tackle point for every 2 tackles.

Highest Avg. Tackle Points - PKL 7			Highest Tackle SR - PKL 7
Team	Avg. Tackle Points		Team	Tackle SR
Puneri Paltan	11.2		Gujarat Fortunegiants	50
Jaipur Pink Panthers	10.9		Jaipur Pink Panthers	48
U.P. Yoddha	10.6		U Mumba	48
Haryana Steelers	10.6		Telugu Titans	47

 

5:51 PM

Key stats ahead of Pune vs Gujarat match

• Girish Ernak (PUN) would be playing his 100th PKL match.

• Surjeet Singh (PUN) needs 1 tackle point to reach 250 tackle points in PKL.