Pro Kabaddi 2018 highlights: Jaipur Pink Panther, U Mumba settle for tie

In the first match on Day 59, UP Yoddha and Tamil Thalaivas played out a thrilling 25-25 tie in a tense encounter of Vivo Pro Kabaddi Season season six at the Tau Devi Lal Stadium in Panchkula.

8:41 PM

Ajay Thakur is tackled (17-17)

8:40 PM

Shrikant Jadhav fails to score in do or die raid but a tamil thalaivas defender went in lobby (16-17)

8:38 PM

An empty raid from Ajay Thakur

8:38 PM

Prashant Kumar Rai makes an empty raid

8:37 PM

An empty raid from Sukesh Hegde

8:37 PM

MS Athul is tackled (15-16)

8:35 PM

Prashanth Kumar Rai scores a bonus point (13-16)

8:35 PM

A touch point for Sukesh Hegde (12-16)

8:33 PM

Sachin went out of bound (11-15)

8:32 PM

MS Athul in do or die raid, tackled (11-14)

8:31 PM

An emtpty raid from Ajay Thakur

8:31 PM

An empty raid from Shrikant Jadhav

8:05 PM

U.P. Yoddha win the toss & select the Choice of court

7:19 PM

PKL 2018, Day 59, Match 1: Tamil Thalaivas vs UP Yoddha

HEAD-TO-HEAD (OVERALL)

 

Overall: Matches – 5 | U.P. Yoddha – 2 | Tamil Thalaivas – 2 | Tie – 1 

• The head-to-head between these two teams is tied at 2-2 with one match ending in a tie. 

• This season as well they have played twice with each team winning once. Each team won during the other’s home leg. 

• The first meeting came in the Chennai leg where UP won 37-32 (M#4):

o Ajay Thakur scored 12 raid points in this match

o Prashanth Kumar Rai’s 8 raid points and Narender’s HIGH 5 led the way for UP. 

o Despite leading in raid points (CHE 23-18 UP), Tamil Thalaivas lost that game because of defence failure as they scored just 5 tackle points as compared to 10 by UP.

o 4 out of Tamil Thalaivas 5 tackle points scored by Manjeet Chhillar. 

• The second meeting came in the Noida leg where Tamil Thalaivas won 46-24 (M#44):

o Sukesh Hegde and Ajay Thakur both had 9 raid points for Tamil Thalaivas.

o Manjeet Chhillar (8 tackle points) and Amit Hooda (6 tackle points) both had HIGH 5s for Thalaivas. 

o Prashanth Kumar Rai (7 raid points) was the only U.P. player to score more than 5 points in the match. 

o Tamil Thalaivas’ 19 tackle points in this match is still the joint-highest of PKL 6. 

o This was also Tamil Thalaivas’ biggest ever win in Pro Kabaddi. 

• U.P. Yoddha PKL 6: 5 wins, 10 losses, 3 ties. Won their last match against Telugu Titans by 7 points.

o Won 2 of their last 5 matches.

o Those 2 wins have come in their last 2 matches.   

• Tamil Thalaivas PKL 6: 5 wins, 12 losses, 2 ties. Lost their last match against Bengal Warriors by 7 points.

o Only 1 win in their last 5 matches with 3 losses and 1 tie.