Author: Kshitij Kumar Ojha

Dabangg Delhi KC won 36-30 in their most recent match against U Mumba as senior defender Manjeet Chillar scored crucial four tackle points. At the same time, the raiders stepped up in the absence of star performer Naveen Kumar. Coach Krishan Singh Hooda was all praise for the young raider Neeraj Narwal, who scored six raid points after coming in as a substitute. Neeraj is the son of Joginder Narwal, who also plays for Dabang Delhi. “Neeraj did outstandingly well, you saw how well he played, he brought 6-7 raid points at crucial times in the game, I knew he would do well that’s…

In what was another action-packed rivalry week game, Gujarat Giants beat Haryana Steelers by 32-26 and Dabangg Delhi beat U Mumba by 36-30 on January 31. In the first game of the night, the Giants came with rejuvenated energy as they displayed an all-round game to come on top of the Steelers. The Giants found a couple of new players standing up for them in the raiding department as Ajay Kumar completed his Super 10, scoring a total of 11 raid points. He was ably supported by Pardeed Kumar, who scored nine raid points. In defence, the experienced duo of Parvesh and Girish managed three tackle points each. Ravindra Pahal, who was making a…

Having lost to Tamil Thalaivas (42-24) on Sunday, the Bulls have now suffered four defeats in their last five Pro Kabaddi League 8 games. Pundits claim that the reason behind their unimpressive showing has been that the team has not been able to perform as a unit.  Bulls head coach Randhir Singh Sherawat said in a post-match interaction with the media that they had clear plans for the Thailavas. In fact, the last time the two teams met in the league, the Bulls had come on top, winning by eight points. But in yesterday’s game, according to the coach, neither the defence nor the…

On January 30, The Pro Kabaddi League season 8 witnessed a double-header after quite a while. In the first game of the night, Jaipur Pink Panthers beat Patna Pirates 30-51, who suffered their second loss against JPP this season. The last time they tool on each other, the Panthers beat the Pirates by 38-28.  The game between the Pirates and the Panthers looked like a game between amateurs and professionals. Patna’s defence was in complete disarray as it never got going in the match at all. Patna couldn’t get a single tackle point in the first half. In fact, it…

Gujarat Giants were making a comeback in Vivo Pro Kabaddi League season 8 as they had a coronavirus scare in the camp. But unlike the Patna Pirates, who also went through a similar ordeal, the Giants looked jittery on the mat as they lost their game against Dabang Delhi KC by 41-22. The giants never looked like they were in the game as Delhi, even without injured Naveen Kumar and Ajay Thakur, came in with a lot to prove. The Delhi-based franchise inflicted an all-out on the Giants within the first 10 minutes of the game itself. The Giants just couldn’t recover from…

Patna Pirates returned to the mat after nine days when they won their 12th match of the season against Tamil Thailavas 52-24 on January 28.  The Pirates won the game quite comprehensively in the end. Their defence got the maximum number of points it has ever achieved in a single game.  After the game, their head coach Ram Mehar Singh said in an interaction with the media that there was a tense atmosphere in the team before the game. “There was stress and pressure on us because of this long break. I was tense from the last 2-3 days about how the team…

Injuries seem to have spread like wildfire in the Dabang Delhi KC camp. As per the latest reports, Delhi’s most experienced raider Ajay Thakur will miss the remainder of the ongoing edition of PKL. Before being picked up by Delhi in the auctions last year, Thakur was one of the key players for Tamil Thailavas for three consecutive seasons. The franchise, though, couldn’t benefit much as they failed to qualify for the play-offs. Dabang Delhi would have been hoping that the former India captain could take up that extra responsibility and bring some stability to the side after Naveen Kumar’s injury. https://twitter.com/ProKabaddi/status/1471779997056581632…

After a nine-day wait, Patna Pirates returned to the Pro Kabaddi League sesons 8 with a resounding 52-24 victory against the Tamil Thailavas. The Pirates did not play even a single game in the last nine days because of the coronavirus scare in their camp, but the break seems to have rejuvenated their players as the Pirates looked like a team on a mission. The first 10 minutes of the game saw both sides taking it slow in the game as the score read 8-8, but then the Pirates inflicted the first all out of the night on the Thailavas and…

UP Yoddhas bought Pardeep Narwal for a whopping 1.65 Crore in Vivo Pro Kabaddi auctions in August 2020 before the commencement of season 8 of the league. The player had previously represented Bengaluru Bulls and Patna Pirates. He helped the Pirates clinch three consecutive league titles between seasons 3 and 5. Credit: Pro Kabaddi He continued to dominate the league in seasons 6 and 7 but couldn’t help his side qualify for the playoffs. So just when the new retentions were announced by Patna for the new season, fans and pundits alike were a little shocked to not find Pardeep in Patna’s retention…

UP Yoddhas will be up against Puneri Paltan in tonight’s clash in the Vivo Pro Kabaddi League season 8. The last time these two sides met, records were broken as the Yoddhas defeated Paltan by 50-40, recording the highest combined score ever in league history. The star of the show for the Yoddhas was the young raider Surender Gill who scored 21 raid points in the match.  Interestingly, when you have a raid as capable and as talented as Pardeep Narwal in the team, you would not expect the support raider to score as many points as Gill did in that game.…