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Pro Kabaddi 2018 highlights, Day 55: UP Yoddha beat Telugu Titans 27-20

PKL 2018 highlights, Day 55, Match 1: U Mumba vs Dabang Delhi Continuing their winning streak, title favourites U Mumba thrashed Dabang Delhi 44-19 in a completely one-sided affair of Pro Kabaddi Leag

PKL 2018 today match: Dabang Delhi vs U Mumba and Telugu Titans vs UP Yoddha

Siddharth Desai

In today’s match of VIVO Pro Kabaddi League 2018 (PKL 2018), the first match will be played Dabang Delhi and U Mumba while in today’s second match UP Yoddha will lock horns with Telugu Titans at Rajiv Gandhi Indoor Stadium in Vizag. In the head-to-battle, U Mumba have been dominant over Dabang Delhi winning 11 of the 13 matches played between them. In Pro Kabaddi 2018, U Mumba also won both previous encounters against Delhi. Dabang Delhi and U Mumba are jointly the 2nd-best raiding teams in PKL 6 at the moment.

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PKL 2018 highlights, Day 55, Match 1: U Mumba vs Dabang Delhi

Continuing their winning streak, title favourites U Mumba thrashed Dabang Delhi 44-19 in a completely one-sided affair of Pro Kabaddi League season six (PKL 2018) at the Rajiv Gandhi Indoor Stadium. Once again, U Mumba witnessed an all-round effort as its raiders and defenders put in a convincing display. Siddharth Desai (12 points) and Rohit Baliyan (8 points) were excellent in raid department whereas skipper Fazel Atrachali got a high five and Surender Singh with four points marshalled the defence superbly.

Delhi struggled to get going against a robust opposition and one of its players had a standout match. Meraj Sheykh had a match to forget for Dabang Delhi as he failed to get off the mark. Despite the defeat Dabang Delhi remain in the hunt for a place in the playoffs. Rohit got U Mumba off to a quick start with two raids in two minutes to see them led 4-1. The first half saw Chandran Ranjit pick up a couple of raid points and no other raider from Dabang Delhi could get going.

It was Dabang Delhi's defence that kept them in the first half. For U Mumba Rohit Baliyan was in fine form and Surender made crucial tackles at the back. U Mumbai inflicted the first all out of the match in the 16th minute to lead 16-8. It was an impressive first half display from U Mumba as they went into the break leading 19-11. Dabang Delhi were on equal footing at the start of the second half as they matched U Mumba point for point but still trailed 15-23 after 27 minutes.

Siddharth successful raid in the 30th minute led to another all out as U Mumba led 30-15. After the second all out of the match U Mumba completely asserted the dominance. Delhi surrendered haplessly as in the last 10 minutes they could score just four points. U Mumba inflicted another all out in the last five minutes and registered a comfortable 44-19 win in the end.

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AT FULL TIME: UP Yoddha beat Telugu Titans 27-20
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Vishal makes an empty raid (20-27)
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An empty raid from Prashanth Kumar Rai (20-27)
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Rahul Chaudhari makes an empty raid
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An empty raid from Shrikant Jadhav
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A touch point for Rahul Chaudhari (20-27)
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UP Yoddha take timeout with 1 minute 51 seconds left in the game
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Prashant Kumar Rai scores a two pointer raid (19-27)
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Farhad scores a touch point (19-15)
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An empty raid from Shrikant Jadhav (18-25)
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Rakshith is tackled (18-25)
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An empty raid from Prashanth Kumar Rai (18-24)
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A touch point for Rakshith (18-24)
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Timeout Taken
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Shrikant Jadhav is tackled (17-24)
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First Published: Dec 11 2018 | 5:30 PM IST