First win for Patna Pirates in PKL 2022
After the first half, Dabang Delhi was ahead in the match with a strong lead of 20-12. At one point, Patna Pirates restricted Dabang Delhi to two players, but after that the defending winning team made a spectacular comeback and took the lead. He also got Patna Pirates all out in the first half.
Captain Naveen Kumar took 5 points in raiding for Dabang Delhi in the first half, while Ravi Kumar and Krishan Dhull performed well in the defense and took three tackle points each. For Patna Pirates, only Rohit Gulia could impress and with the help of a super raid, he took 6 points.
In the second half, Patna Pirates came back strongly to level the score at 24-24 in the 29th minute. During this, Patna Pirates also got Dabang Delhi all out. Before the break in the second half, Rohit Gulia completed his Super 10 and Patna Pirates also took the lead. Patna Pirates were leading 27-25 at the break. However, during this time Naveen Kumar once again completed his Super 10.
After the break, Patna had increased their lead to 30-25 and Dabang Delhi again had only two players left, but after this Ashu Malik took two points in two raids to take the score to 30-27. Patna Pirates once again all out Dabang Delhi in the 39th minute and the match was decided with a 5 point lead. In the end, Patna won the match by a margin of four points.
Rohit Gulia took 12 raid points for Patna Pirates, while Sachin scored 9 raid points. Patna captain Neeraj took 4 tackle points in the defence. Naveen and Ashu Malik took 8 raid points for Dabang Delhi, but in the second half, the champion team had to face the first defeat due to the failure of the defense badly.
