PKL 2018, Day 20 highlights: Telugu Titans beat Patna Pirates 53-32

In today's first match, Gujarat Fortunegiants beat Puneri Paltan 27-37. Nitin Tomar becomes first raider to score 100 points in PKL 2018.

8:00 PM

Stay Tuned for Toss

7:55 PM

Puneri Paltan and Gujarat Fortunegiants are on the Kabaddi turf in Patliputra Sports Complex

7:54 PM

PKL 2018, Day 20, Match 1: Puneri Paltan vs Gujarat fortunegiants

PUNE YET TO ZERO IN ON A LINEUP IN DEFENSE

 

• Pune has shuffled around their defensive lineup repeatedly and it is starting to show signs of weaknesses for them.

• Initially, they brought in Akshay Jadhav at left corner and moved Girish Ernak to left cover.

• Then they also made a couple more changes, as Sandeep Narwal was replaced by Shubham Shinde and Rinku Narwal came in to play left corner

• And this has shown as they had a tackle success percentage of 40.7% in the first half compared to 34.5% in the second half.

Pune Defensive Performance this season
First 5 games	PKL 6	Last 5 games
118	Tackles	110
48	Successful	38
70	Failed	72

 

7:53 PM

7:53 PM

PKL 2018, Day 20, Match 1: Puneri Paltan vs Gujarat fortunegiants

 

RAIDING CONTINGENT LEAD BY SACHIN LOOKS GOOD FOR GUJARAT
 

• One more welcome surprise for the Gujarat Fortunegiants has been their support raider Ajay Kumar stepping up in their last 2 games.

• After starting the season from the bench, he has 13 raid points at a raid SR of 46, which is excellent for a support raider.

Ajay Kumar in last 2 games
Raids	28
Successful	10
Failed	4
Raid Points	13
Raid SR	46

 

 

7:51 PM

PKL 2018, Day 20, Match 1: Puneri Paltan vs Gujarat fortunegiants

GUJARAT FORTUNEGIANTS: RAIDING CONTINGENT LEAD BY SACHIN LOOKS GOOD FOR GUJARAT

 

• Lead raider Sachin has had a great start to season 6 of PKL and has performed consistently well in all their 4 matches.

• His average of 8.3 raid points per match is the 7th best in the league and he has not gotten below 6 raid points in any match which shows his consistency.

• He has especially been great in their last 2 games, scoring a combined 20 raid points at an excellent raid SR of 63.

Sachin in PKL 6
Mts	4
Raid Pts	33
Avg Raid Pts	8.3
Raid SR	54

 

7:47 PM

PKL 2018, Day 20, Match 1: Puneri Paltan vs Gujarat fortunegiants

PLAYER HEAD-TO-HEAD 

(All head to head for overall PKL)

 

• Nitin Tomar (PUN) 3 - 1 Parvesh Bhainswal (GUJ)

• Nitin Tomar (PUN) 3 – 0 Ruturaj Koravi (GUJ)

• Monu (PUN) 0 – 3 Sunil Kumar (GUJ)

• Mahendra Rajput (GUJ) 5 - 1 Girish Ernak (PUN) 

• Sachin (GUJ) 3 – 2 Girish Ernak (PUN)

• K. Prapanjan (GUJ) 1 – 4 Girish Ernak (PUN)

• Ajay Kumar (GUJ) 3 – 1 Girish Ernak (PUN)

 

7:40 PM

PKL 2018, Day 20, Match 1: Puneri Paltan vs Gujarat fortunegiants

• Sunil Kumar has a very good record against Puneri Paltan. 

o His average of 3.7 tackle points against Pune is the second-best among all defenders to have played more than 2 games against them. 

• How the battle plays out between Nitin Tomar and this cover combination will be crucial to the ultimate result of the game.

Sunil Kumar v Puneri Paltan
Mts	4
Tackle Pts	15
Avg Tackle pts	3.7
Tackle SR	83

 

7:37 PM

PKL 2018, Day 20, Match 1: Puneri Paltan vs Gujarat fortunegiants

• This game he will be up against one of the most successful cover combinations of this season in Sunil Kumar and Parvesh Bhainswal.

• Both of them have stuck on and led the defense despite the loss of their Iranian corner combination loss from last season.

• Gujarat Fortunegiants still average 11 tackle points per game which is joint second best among all teams (tied with U Mumba).

• Both Sunil and Parvesh have had great starts to the season and have similar stats.

• Combined, they have 23 tackle points at an excellent tackle SR of 64. 

• The first game that the 2 sides met, Parvesh was the best defender of Gujarat, falling just 1 short of a High 5. 

o However, Nitin Tomar beat him 2-0 in the head to head battle.

Gujarat Covers - PKL 6
Defender Name	Sunil Kumar	Parvesh Bhainswal
Matches	4	4
Tackles	18	18
Failed Tackles	7	7
Tackle Points	12	11
Tackle SR	67	61

 

7:24 PM

PKL 2018, Day 20, Match 1: Puneri Paltan vs Gujarat fortunegiants

 

NITIN TOMAR vs ELITE COVER COMBINATION OF SUNIL-PARVESH
There has a been a steady dip in Nitin Tomar's form starting from the home leg and as we can see from the table below, his average raid points, raid strike rate all of them have dipped significantly.

• All these stats from the last 5 games have become less than half of his stats from the first 5 games.

• This could be due to him not having enough support from his support raiders and eventually fatigue taking its toll, as Pune played their last 6 games in 6 consecutive days in their home leg.

Nitin Tomar Raiding Performance PKL 6
Category	First 5 games	Last 5 games
Raid Points	64	30
Super 10s	3	1
Avg. Raid Pts.	13.0	6.0
Raid SR	71	33

 

7:21 PM

PKL 2018, Day 20, Match 1: Puneri Paltan vs Gujarat fortunegiants

NITIN TOMAR vs ELITE COVER COMBINATION OF SUNIL-PARVESH

 

• Nitin Tomar has the 2nd highest raid points in PKL 6 so far and could become the first raider in this season to reach 100 raid points this match. He needs just 6 raid points to do it.

Highest raid points in PKL 6
Player Name	Raid Pts.
Siddharth Desai	97
Nitin Tomar	94
Pardeep Narwal	88
Ajay Thakur	88

 

7:18 PM

PKL 2018, Day 20, Match 2: Patna Pirates vs Telugu Titans
Telugu Titans team records

Overall PKL
Player	Mat	Raid Points	Avg Raid Pts	Raid SR	Super 10s	Tackle Points	Avg Tackle Pts	Tackle SR	High 5s	Total Points
Rahul Chaudhari	84	700	8.3	48	32	46	0.5	32	0	746
Nilesh Salunke	48	189	3.9	40	4	10	0.2	27	0	199
Vishal Bhardwaj	29	1	0.0	8	0	95	3.2	53	6	96
Abozar Mighani	28	1	0.0	17	0	83	2.9	60	5	84
Mohsen Maghsoudlou	21	53	2.5	45	1	12	0.5	36	0	65
Sombir	22	0	0.0	0	0	39	1.6	44	2	39
Farhad Milaghardan	23	7	0.3	25	0	31	1.3	41	0	38
Anil Kumar	25	3	0.1	13	0	30	1.1	40	0	33
Rakshith	7	12	1.0	50	0	2	0.1	50	0	14
Armaan	1	2	2.0	22	0	0	0.0	0	0	2
C Manoj Kumar	2	1	0.2	50	0	0	0.0	0	0	1
Rajnish	1	0	0.0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0
Krushna Madane	1	0	0.0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0

 

7:14 PM

PKL 2018, Day 20, Match 2: Patna Pirates vs Telugu Titans
Patna Pirates Team record

Overall PKL
Player	Mat	Raid Points	Avg Raid Pts	Raid SR	Super 10s	Tackle Points	Avg Tackle Pts	Tackle SR	High 5s	Total Points
Pardeep Narwal	71	713	10.0	58	35	7	0.0	22	0	720
Deepak Narwal	52	203	3.7	42	6	8	0.1	27	0	211
Kuldeep Singh	62	59	0.9	25	0	115	1.8	47	6	174
Surender Singh	43	126	2.8	43	2	8	0.1	17	0	134
Tushar Patil	46	117	2.3	41	0	4	0.0	13	0	121
Jaideep	33	0	0.0	0	0	94	2.8	46	7	94
Vijay	26	47	1.8	39	0	43	1.6	43	1	90
Jawahar	30	7	0.2	26	0	37	1.2	36	0	44
Vikas Kale	26	0	0.0	0	0	37	1.4	36	2	37
Manjeet	7	30	4.2	46	0	2	0.2	33	0	32
Manish	26	0	0.0	0	0	22	0.7	56	0	22
Tae Deok Eom	27	14	0.4	42	0	8	0.2	25	0	22
Vikas Jaglan	18	15	0.7	47	0	5	0.2	28	0	20
Vijay Kumar	10	1	0.0	25	0	5	0.4	26	0	6
Ravinder Kumar	4	0	0.0	0	0	1	0.1	13	0	1

 

7:08 PM

PKL 2018, Day 20, Match 2: Patna Pirates vs Telugu Titans

PARDEEP NARWAL VS TITANS’ CORNER COMBINATION

 

• Overall, Telugu Titans are the best defence of the season with an average of 12.6 tackle points per game.  

• However, Abozar didn’t feature in their previous game against U Mumba and Telugu delivered their worst defensive performance of the season by scoring just 6 tackle points. 

o Abozar’s average of 4.5 is the best by any defender this season. 

Abozar Mighani	Telugu Corners	Vishal Bhardwaj
4	Mts	5
18	Tackle Pts	18
3	High 5s	1
4.5	Avg Tackle pts	3.6
82	Tackle SR	64

 

 

7:03 PM

PKL 2018, Day 20, Match 2: Patna Pirates vs Telugu Titans

Player Battle: PARDEEP NARWAL vs RAHUL CHAUDHARI 

 

• The two top raiders of Pro Kabaddi will face off against each other in this match - Pardeep Narwal (PAT) and Rahul Chaudhari (HYD). 

• They are the two leading raid point scorers in the history of PKL – Pardeep Narwal became the all-time leading raid point scorer for the first time in his last game, surpassing Rahul Chaudhari.

• He currently has 713 raid points. Rahul Chaudhari has now been pushed to second spot for the first time in PKL history. 

Raider Head to Head
Pardeep Narwal (PAT)		Player Name	Rahul Chaudhari (HYD)
PKL 6	Overall	Season	PKL 6	Overall
7	71	Matches	5	84
88	713	Raid Points	34	700
6	35	Super 10s	0	32
12.5	10.0	Avg Raid Points	6.7	8.3
59	58	SR	40	48