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.

9:16 PM

9:16 PM

Day 7, Match 2: Haryana Steelers vs U Mumba, probable seven

Haryana Steelers	vs	U Mumba
Sunil	Right Corner	D. Cheralathan
Naveen	Right In	Rohit Baliyan
Mayur Shivtarkar	Right Cover	Surender Singh
Monu Goyat ©	Center	Abolfazl Maghsodlou
Sachin Shingade	Left Cover	Rajaguru Subramanian
Vikas Kandola	Left In	Siddharth Desai
Kuldeep Singh	Left Corner	Fazel Atrachali ©

 

9:15 PM

Day 7, Match 2: Key stats ahead of Haryana Steelers vs U Mumba encounter

 

• Sachin Shingade (HAR) is just 4 tackle points away from reaching 100 tackle points in PKL.

• Rajaguru Subramanian needs 6 tackle points to reach 50 points in PKL.

• Rohit Rana (MUM) needs 2 tackle points to complete 100 tackle points in PKL. (19th player)

 

9:14 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.

9:10 PM

STAY TUNES FOR HARYANA STEELERS vs U MUMBA CLASH

9:10 PM

9:08 PM

Rahul Chaudhari gets 3 points in Super Raid (34-29)

9:07 PM

Prashanth Kumar Rai raids successfully (31-29)

9:07 PM

An unsuccessful raid frim Nilesh Salunke (31-28)

9:06 PM

Prashanth Kumar Rai gets a point (31-27)

9:05 PM

One minute to go

9:05 PM

Timeout taken by UP Yoddha

9:04 PM

An empty raid from Nilesh Salunke (31-26)

9:04 PM

An unsuccessful raid from Shrikant Jadhav as Telugu Titans works in unison (31-26)

9:02 PM

Telugu Titans takes TIME OUT