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.

9:14 PM

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

 

Patna Pirates are the worst team in PKL 6 in terms of average tackle points. Their tackle strike rate is also the worse, along with Haryana. Pardeep Narwal has scored a SUPER 10 in 6 out of 7 matches so far, despite which Patna have won only 3 of those matches. Prior to PKL 2018, this had happened only 6 times across three seasons in the 29 instances where Pardeep Narwal picked up a SUPER 10 (from PKL 3 to PKL 5). The Patna defence has been leaking points with a high percentage of failed tackles. On average they fail with 72% of their tackles. Patna’s best defensive performance, in fact, came against Telugu Titans in their first meeting where they had only 11 failed tackles (58% failure rate). Patna will be hoping they can repeat such a performance again on Tuesday to support their raiders a bit better (Patna’s average raid points per game is 23.3 which is third-best in PKL 6).

Patna Failed Tackles - PKL 6
Match No.	Opponent	Tackles	Failed Tackles	Failed Tackles %
1	Tamil Thalaivas	23	21	91%
9	UP Yoddha	29	19	66%
15	UP Yoddha	28	22	79%
23	Telugu Titans	19	11	58%
33	Jaipur Pink Panthers	28	21	75%
36	U Mumba	24	17	71%
38	Haryana Steelers	24	16	67%

 

9:13 PM

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

PLAYER HEAD-TO-HEAD

(All head-to-head for overall PKL. Season 6 record in brackets)

• Pardeep Narwal (PAT): 8 – 5 Vishal Bhardwaj (HYD) [1-2 in PKL 6]

• Pardeep Narwal (PAT) 3 – 8 Abozar Mighani (HYD) [1-3 in PKL 6]

• Rahul Chaudhari (HYD) 12 – 4 Kuldeep Singh (PAT)

• Rahul Chaudhari (HYD) 7 – 2 Jaideep (PAT) [1-1 in PKL 6]

 

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9:10 PM

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

PARDEEP NARWAL VS TITANS’ CORNER COMBINATION

• Pardeep Narwal has had trouble against some of the top right corner defenders in PKL 6. Prior to the match against Jaipur Pink Panthers, he had a combined 3-9 record against them. 

Pardeep H2H vs Right Corners in PKL 6 (first 4 matches)
Defender	Successful Raids	Unsuccessful Raid
Nitesh Kumar	2	4
Amit Hooda	0	2
Abozar Mighani	1	3
Combined	3	9

 

9:10 PM

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

 

Pardeep Narwal vs Rahul Chaudhari: The battle of top two raiders of Pro Kabaddi League

• Pardeep Narwal (PAT) has been very good versus Telugu Titans averaging 11.7 raid points a game at a strike rate of 69. This is his second-best raid SR against any team. 

• Rahul Chaudhari averages 8.8 raid points a game against Patna and has a much lower strike rate of 50.

Pardeep Narwal vs HYD	V	Rahul Chaudhari vs PAT
8	Mts	13
94	Raid Pts.	115
6	Super 10s	7
11.7	Avg. Raid Pts.	8.8
69	Raid SR	50

 

9:09 PM

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

Pardeep Narwal vs Rahul Chaudhari: The battle of top two raiders of Pro Kabaddi League

 

The two top raiders of Pro Kabaddi will face off against each other - Pardeep Narwal and Rahul Chaudhari. 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. These two raiders also hold the record for most career Super 10s in PKL – Pardeep Narwal has 35 and Rahul Chaudhari has 32. Pardeep Narwal is the third-leading raid point scorer in PKL 6 with 88 raid points from 7 games. He has failed to score a Super 10 in only one game so far, against Telugu Titans. In comparison, Rahul Chaudhari has been well below his best in PKL 6. He has only 34 raid points from his 5 matches without a single Super 10. This is Rahul’s longest wait for a Super 10 in any season. Pardeep Narwal (PAT) has been very good versus Telugu Titans averaging 11.7 raid points a game at a strike rate of 69. This is his second-best raid SR against any team. Rahul Chaudhari averages 8.8 raid points a game against Patna and has a much lower strike rate of 50.

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

 

9:05 PM

STAY TUNED FOR PATNA PIRATES vs TELUGU TITANS EPIC clash

9:03 PM

AT FULL TIME: Gujarat Fortunegiants Beat Puneri Paltan 37-27 and Nitin Tomar becomes first raider to score 100 points in PKL 2018

9:02 PM

Akshay Jadhav raids successfully (27-37)

9:02 PM

Sachin raids successfully and with this Pune ALL OUT in dying moments (26-36)

9:01 PM

Monu fails due to double thigh hold from Sunil Kumar (26-32)

9:00 PM

An empty raid from Mahendra Rajput (26-31)