PKL 2018 highlights, Day 24: Bengaluru Bulls beat UP Yoddha 35-29

In the first match, U Mumba won the Maharashtra Derby after outclassing Puneri Paltan 31-22 for the first time in PKL 2018

9:16 PM

An empty raid from Prashant Kumar Rai (4-0)

9:15 PM

Kashiling is tackled (4-0)

9:15 PM

Shrikant Jadhav makes an empty raid (3-0)

9:14 PM

Pawan Sehrawat tackled (3-0)

9:14 PM

A successful raid from Prashanth Kumar Rai (2-0)

9:13 PM

Rohit Kumar starts with an unsuccessful raid (1-0)

9:12 PM

UP Yoddha win toss and select choice of court

9:10 PM

Toss to held shortly

9:10 PM

UP Yoddha and Bengaluru Bulls arrive at Greater Noida's kabaddi turf

9:07 PM

PKL 2018, Day 24, Match 2: UP Yoddha vs Bengaluru Bulls
UP YODDHA: JEEVA KUMAR RETURNS TO LINEUP

 

• Veteran Jeeva Kumar, came back to the UP Yoddha lineup after a gap of 6 matches in between.

• Though they were beaten by the Tamil Thalaivas last night, Jeeva Kumar had a relatively good game, scoring 3 tackle points at a tackle SR of 43, including a super tackle.

• This move will be a welcome one for UP, as his replacement Amit was not performing up to expectations at all.

• He had just 4 tackle points from his 6 matches and had a failure rate of 81%.

• Last night, Jeeva formed a good partnership with the other cover defender, Narender and both of them together had 3 tackle points each at a tackle SR of 43. 

• UP Yoddha will be hoping that this partnership continues to perform well, complementing their excellent corner combination of Nitesh Kumar and Sagar Krishna who have been great this season.

o Though, UP opted to go with Sachin Kumar instead of Sagar Krishna at left corner but Sachin managed to score just 1 tackle pt (Tackle SR – 25) and failed in 3 tackles.

Amit in PKL 6
Matches	7
Tackle Pts.	4
Failed Tackle %	82%
Tackle SR	18

 

9:06 PM

PKL 2018, Day 24, Match 2: UP Yoddha vs Bengaluru Bulls

PLAYER HEAD-TO-HEAD

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

• Rishank Devadiga (UP) 7 – 1 Jasmer Gulia (BLR)

• Rishank Devadiga (UP) 3 – 4 Mahender Singh (BLR)

• Rishank Devadiga (UP) 4 – 2 Ashish Sangwan (BLR)

• Rohit Kumar (BLR) 6 – 3 Jeeva Kumar (UP)

• Rohit Kumar (BLR) 3 – 3 Nitesh Kumar (UP)

• Rohit Kumar (BLR) 4 – 1 Sagar Krishna (UP)

 

9:06 PM

PKL 2018, Day 24, Match 2: UP Yoddha vs Bengaluru Bulls

 

BATTLE OF TWO RAIDING TRIOS

• After a slow start, Rohit Kumar has come into form in the last 2 games. He averages 7.5 raid points at a raid SR of 50 in the last 2 games.

• Kashiling Adake has been consistently contributing in both raiding and defense for Bengaluru throughout the season.

• Bengaluru Bulls have the highest average raid points per game (25.6) as a team, and the highest raid SR (61) among all the teams in PKL.

• With the way that these 3 are playing together, the Bengaluru raiding contingent looks unstoppable.

Bengaluru Bulls raiders in PKL 6 – except Pawan
Raider Name	Kashiling Adake	Rohit Kumar
Matches	5	5
Raids	69	44
Raid Pts.	31	18
Avg. Raid Pts.	6.2	3.6
Raid SR	45	41

 

9:04 PM

PKL 2018, Day 24, Match 2: UP Yoddha vs Bengaluru Bulls

 

BATTLE OF TWO RAIDING TRIOS

• Bengaluru Bulls have also gone in with a similar raiding trio, as they have 3 quality raiders in Rohit Kumar, Kashiling Adake and Pawan Sehrawat.

• However, their strategy has been a little different because youngster Pawan Sehrawat has been performing exceptionally well and is among the best raiders of this season.

• None of the defenses they have faced so far has had an answer to Pawan and he is scoring at an unbelievable raid SR of 97 for the season. 

• He also has 8 super raids from just 5 matches which is double than the raider with 2nd most super raids in PKL 6.

• He was great in their last match against Patna scoring 14 raid points. 

• More importantly, in the last raid of the match, with Bengaluru up by just 1 point, it was communicated to him that it was a DoD raid only halfway into the raid. He still kept his composure, got a touch point and helped Bengaluru win the match.

Pawan Sehrawat - PKL 6
Mts	5
Raid Pts.	74
SUPER 10s	4
Avg. Raid Pts.	14.8
Raid SR	97

Pawan v top defenders this season
v Defender	Raids	Successful	Failed
Amit Hooda	6	5	1
Manjeet Chhillar	3	3	0
Kuldeep Singh (Patna)	4	3	1
Ravi Kumar	3	2	1

 

9:03 PM

PKL 2018, Day 24, Match 2: UP Yoddha vs Bengaluru Bulls

BATTLE OF TWO RAIDING TRIOS

 

• For both Bengaluru Bulls and UP Yoddha, the raiding department has been the strong point as compared to the defense.

• UP have 3 good raiders in Rishank Devadiga, Shrikant Jadhav and Prashanth Kumar Rai. They have alternated between them depending on the strength of the opposition and situation.

• All 3 raiders have scored more than 40 raid points and 6+ average in PKL 6 – they are the only team to have 3 raiders with 40+ raid pts.

• However, they failed in their last game against Tamil Thalaivas, as they only got a combined 10 raid points between them.

• Captain Rishank, went off the field after scoring 0 raid points from his 5 raids and Shrikant scored just 3 raid points from his 10 raids (8 failed raids – most failed raids in a match in PKL 6). 

• Prashanth Kumar Rai was the only successful raider, having 7 raid points at a raid SR of 58. He also failed in 7 raids. 

• UP will be hoping that they do not fail collectively again, and that Rishank comes back for this match fully fit.

UP Yoddha Raiders in PKL 6
Raider Name	Rishank Devadiga	Shrikant Jadhav	Prashanth Kumar Rai
Matches	7	8	8
Raid Pts.	42	60	62
Super 10s	0	3	2
Avg. Raid Pts.	6.0	7.5	7.7
Raid SR	46	54	56

 

9:02 PM

PKL 2018, Day 24, Match 2: Key stats ahead of UP Yoddha vs Bengaluru Bulls clash

• Rishank Devadiga (UP) needs just 9 raid points to reach 500 raid points in PKL.

• Rohit Kumar Chaudhary (UP) needs 7 raid points to reach 100 raid points in PKL.