PKL 2018 Day 7 highlights: Mumba thrash Monu Goyat's Haryana Steelers 53-26

In the first match of the day, Telugu Titans beat UP Yoddha 34-29 at Sonepat. Rahul Chaudhari again misses Super 10 by 1 point.

7:50 PM

Day 7, Match 1: Telugu Titans vs UP Yoddha

BATTLE OF TOP RAIDERS: RAHUL CHAUDHARI V RISHANK DEVADIGA

• Rishank Devadiga and Rahul Chaudhari are 2 of the best raiders in the history of PKL. 

• The two Raiders are among the top 10 raid point scorers in PKL’s history as well as in PKL 5. 

• The battle between these 2 raiding giants is sure to have a great impact on the outcome of the match. 

• They have both gotten off to good starts in PKL 6 with Rishank scoring 13 raid points in 2 matches at an average of 6.5 and a SR of 39. 

• He has sat back and played the role of a commanding captain and let his co-raiders do the damage.

• Rahul Chaudhari on the other hand, led the raiding unit that beat Tamil Thalaivas (28-33). 

• He scored 9 raid points in that match at a SR of 45.

• Rishank Devadiga and Rahul Chaudhari are also amongst the top 3 players with most super raids in PKL history.

• Rahul Chaudhari is closing in on 700 raid points in PKL while Devadiga is closing in on reaching 500 raid points in PKL. 

• Rahul Chaudhari is expected to face a tough challenge from right corner Nitesh Kumar, who tackled the dubki king Pardeep Narwal thrice in 4 head-to-heads in their previous game.

o Nitesh is also dominating the head-to-head against Rahul with 4 successful tackles in 6 raids.

• While, Rishank is going to face Vishal Bhardwaj at left-corner, who tackled him 3 times in 6 raids in PKL 5.

 

7:45 PM

Day 7, Match 1: Telugu Titans vs UP Yoddha

Head to Head in PKL 5

Match No.	Telugu Titans	UP Yoddha	Result
8	18	31	UPY won by 13 points
24	32	39	UPY won by 7 points
44	23	25	UPY won by 2 points

 

7:44 PM

Day 7, Match 1: key stats ahead of Telugu Titans vs UP Yoddha encounter

 

• Rahul Chaudhari (HYD) needs 25 raid points to cross 700 raid points in PKL (first player to do so).

• Prasanth Kumar Rai (UP) needs 18 raid points to complete 200 raid points in PKL.

• Rohit Kumar Choudary (UP) needs 9 raid points to complete 100 raid points in PKL.

 

7:43 PM

7:41 PM

7:40 PM

Day 7, Match 1: Telugu Titans vs UP Yoddha

Probable seven

Telugu Titans	Vs	UP Yoddha
Abozar Mighani	Right Corner	Nitesh Kumar
Mohsen Maghsodlou	Right In	Rishank Devadiga ©
Farhad Milgardhan	Right Cover	Narender
Rahul Chaudhari	Center	Shrikant Jadhav
Anil Kumar	Left Cover	Jeeva Kumar
Nilesh Salunke	Left In	Prashanth Kumar Rai
Vishal Bhardwaj ©	Left Corner	Sagar Krishna

 

7:39 PM

7:38 PM

7:37 PM

Day 7, Match 1: Telugu Titans vs UP Yoddha

Raider Head to Head
Rishank Devadiga (UP)		Player Name	Rahul Chaudhari (HYD)
PKL 5	Overall	Season	Overall	PKL 5
21	82	Matches	80	22
165	461	Raid Points	675	184
5	9	Super 10s	32	8
7.8	5.6	Avg Raid Points	8.4	8.3
54	51	SR	49	45

 

7:35 PM

7:33 PM

Day 7, Match 1: Telugu Titans vs UP Yoddha

Telugu Titans Corners vs Tamil Thalaivas in PKL 6 (Match 6)
Player Name	Abozar Mighani	Vishal Bhardwaj
Tackles	6	6
Successful Tackles	3	3
Unsuccessful tackles	3	3
Tackle Points	3	3
SR	50	50

 

7:22 PM

Day 7, Match 1: Telugu Titans vs UP Yoddha

HEAD-TO-HEAD
 

Matches – 3 | UP Yoddha – 3 | Telugu Titans – 0

• UP Yoddha have won all 3 of their encounters in PKL 5 against Telugu Titans.  One of only two sides to do so.

• UP Yoddha qualified for Play offs in PKL 5 while Telugu Titans finished 5th in Zone - B.

• However, Telugu Titans have reached the play offs in every alternate season (PKL 2 and 4) before. They finished 3rd in PKL 2 and 4th in PKL 4.

 

 

7:21 PM

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7:15 PM

Day 7, Match 2: Haryana Steelers vs U Mumba

HOW WILL MONU GOYAT FARE AGAINST AN EXPERIENCED MUMBAI DEFENSE?

 

• Monu Goyat led the Haryana Steelers to victory in their second match, scoring 7 raid points.

• He had a great season 5, where he scored 191 raid points and finished as the 4th best raider of the tournament.

• As a result, he was the star signing for the Haryana Steelers in the auction for PKL 6 and the most expensive player ever in PKL with 1.51 Cr bid.

• Monu has played only 1 match against U Mumba and scored 8 raid points in that match.

• He has 9 raids in PKL history against the U Mumba corner combination of Fazel and Dharmaraj out of which he has 4 successful and 5 unsuccessful raids.

• U Mumba have one of the most experienced corner combinations in PKL, with Fazel Atrachali and Dharmaraj Cheralathan.

• Both of them are in the top 10 defenders list of PKL with Dharmaraj in 7th place with 181 tackle points and Fazel in 10th with 159 tackle points.

• They have had a strong start to season 6, scoring a combined 12 tackle points at an excellent tackle SR of 55

• Fazel has 7 tackle points at a strike rate of 58 and D. Cheralathan has 5 tackle points at a tackle strike rate of 50. 

• However, both have struggled against Haryana Steelers and have a combined tackle strike rate of just 12. Their respective lowest strike rates are against Haryana Steelers.