Noida, 30 November (Hindustan Reporter). Displaying the same spirit for which Puneri Paltan is known, it defeated Gujarat Giants by the score of 34-33 in the 84th match of the 11th season of Pre Kabaddi League played on Friday night at Noida Indoor Stadium and took the third position in the points table. Have achieved.
With this, Paltan broke the streak of defeat that had been going on for two consecutive matches. It has achieved its seventh win in 15 matches while Gujarat has again disappointed after two consecutive wins. It suffered its ninth defeat in 15 matches despite Guman Singh’s 16 points. Akash Shinde hit a Super-10 for Paltan.
Gujarat had taken a lead of 12-9 in the first 10 minutes. Guman got off to a great start with Super Raid. At one time, he had taken a lead of 5-1 and had also put Paltan in a super tackle situation but Paltan recovered itself from this and made the score 9-9 and put Gujarat in a super tackle.
Gujarat, however, scored two points from the super tackle.
After the break, with the help of another multi-point raid from Guman, Gujarat put Paltan in a super tackle situation for the third time but Pankaj rescued Jeetendra by hunting down him. The score was 15-10. However, Guman was caught in the next raid. After this Himanshu caught Pankaj on do or die raid making the score 16-11.
With this, Guman also completed his Super-10 and 500 raid points in PKL. However, Paltan then tried to bridge the gap by taking two points.
By halftime, Paltan not only made the score 16-16 but also pushed Gujarat towards all out. Then just after halftime they took an all out and took a lead of 19-16.
After the all-out, however, Gujarat found its way back with five points against three. Now the distance had reduced to one. Gujarat suddenly took the lead by scoring two consecutive points but Dadasao Pujari put Partik’s super tackle platoon back in front. Then Guman turned the match with a multi-point raid.
After this, Gujarat took the lead of 28-26 by all-out Paltan. After the break, Akash dismissed Priyank and Guman took three points in two raids to reduce the gap to 5. Paltan then made a comeback and made the score 30-32 with three consecutive points and then leveled the score at 32-32.
However, Himanshu again put Gujarat ahead by hunting Aryavardhan. After this, Ajit hunted Himanshu and made the score 33-33. It seemed that the match would end in a draw but in a do or die raid, Dadasao (4 kills) gave Paltan a thrilling one-point victory by hunting the brightest star of the match, Guman.
