PKL 2018, Day 15 highlights: Puneri Paltan beat Tamil Thalaivas 31-36

Siddharth Desai produced a terrific raiding performance to guide U Mumba to a comfortable 41-20 win over Telugu Titans. Rahul Chaudhari created history by scoring 700 raid points in PKL

9:19 PM

A successful raid from Monu (2-2)

9:18 PM

An unsuccessful raid from Jasvir Singh as Ravi makes a brilliant ankle hold (1-2)

9:18 PM

Another empty raid from both the teams (0-2)

9:17 PM

An empty raid from both the teams (0-2)

9:15 PM

A successful raid from Jasvir Singh to start the match (0-1)

9:15 PM

Nitin Tomar tackled in the his first raid (0-2)

9:14 PM

Puneri Paltan win the toss and select the Choice of court

 

9:14 PM

Toss to held shortly

9:13 PM

Match 2: Puneri Paltan vs Tamil Thalaivas

PLAYER HEAD-TO-HEAD

(All figures overall PKL)

• Nitin Tomar (PUN) 2-2 Amit Hooda (CHE)

• Rajesh Mondal (PUN) 6 – 3 Amit Hooda (CHE)

• Rajesh Mondal (PUN) 5-3 Manjeet Chhillar (CHE)

• Ajay Thakur (CHE) 5-7 Sandeep Narwal (PUN)

• Ajay Thakur (CHE) 6-2 Girish Ernak (PUN)

• Jasvir Singh (CHE) 8-5 Girish Ernak (PUN)

 

9:13 PM

9:12 PM

Toss to held shortly

9:11 PM

Tamil Thalaivas and Puneri Paltan are on the court

9:11 PM

9:08 PM

Match 2: Key stats ahead of Puneri Paltan vs Tamil Thalaivas encounter

BATTLE OF TOP 2 RAIDERS OF PKL 6 – DOUBTS OVER AJAY’S FITNESS

 

• Nitin Tomar has scored 81 raid points from 8 matches in PKL 6 at an average of 10.1 raid points per match with a strike rate of 55.

• Nitin Tomar (PUN) is leading raid point scorer for the season while Ajay Thakur (CHE) is second with 69 raid points.

• Overall, Nitin has contributed nearly 59% of Pune’s total raid points this season.

• In the last 3 matches however, he’s had 2 games where he has not scored more than 5 raid points.

o vs Jaipur Pink Panthers he scored just 1 raid point from 18 raids 

o vs Bengaluru Bulls he scored just 3 raid points from 17 raids 

• In 6 games, Ajay has scored 69 raid points, averaging 11.5 raid points a game at a very good strike rate of 63. 

o He has scored 52% of Tamil Thalaivas’ raid points.

Nitin Tomar	IN PKL 6	Ajay Thakur
8	Mts	6
81	Raid Pts	69
4	Super 10s	3
10.1	Avg Raid Pts	11.5
55	Raid SR	63

 

9:07 PM

Match 2: Key stats ahead of Puneri Paltan vs Tamil Thalaivas encounter

• Ajay Thakur (CHE) needs just 2 raid points to become just the 6th player in PKL history to reach 600 raid points.

• Sukesh Hegde (CHE) is 14 raid points away from reaching 300 raid points in PKL.

• Sunil (CHE) needs only 2 tackle points to reach 100 tackle points in PKL.