PKL-6: U Mumba crush Dabang Delhi 39-23


Pune, Nov 25 (IANS): It was a sold team effort which saw U Mumba notching a comfortable 39-23 win over Dabang Delhi in a Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) Season 6 match at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex here on Saturday.

Siddharth Desai and Rohit Baliyan combined to score 17 raid points whereas Fazel Atrachali and Surender chipped in with 8 tackle points to lead U Mumba to a win.

Chandran Ranjit was the lone performer for Dabang Delhi as he ended up with seven raid points while Naveen Kumar scored four points.

U Mumba are now back on the top of the table in Zone A with 62 points from 16 matches while Dabang Delhi are fourth in the table with 33 points from 12 matches.

U Mumba sent Meraj Sheykh to the bench in the 2nd minute to lead 2-1. Naveen started off brightly for Dabang Delhi as he got a couple of raid points. It was 3-3 after three minutes with both teams keen to snatch an early lead.

U Mumba got ahead with a couple of raid and tackle points to lead 8-5 after 11 minutes. Siddharth got into the act and hit a couple of successful raids
which led to an all out being inflicted on Dabang Delhi.

U Mumba led 14-6 after the all out and Dabang Delhi were staring at falling behind even further.

At the end of the first half, U Mumba led 15-8 and were looking on course to a comfortable win.

U Mumba started the second half by inflicting another all out in the 24th minute to lead 23-9. Dabang Delhi were looking short of ideas as both
their raiders and defenders were struggling.

Chandran Ranjit got a raid point as Dabang Delhi hit double figures. The Delhi defence sent back Siddharth to the bench and scored their second tackle point to trail 11-24.

But with Siddharth looking in fine form and U Mumba's defence working in tandem there was no way for a comeback for Delhi.

U Mumba were in in cruise control mode for the last 10 minutes of the match and emerged comfortable winners.

  

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