Sports

Gujarat in league as Haryana lose

Sakal Times

Mumbai: Led by a strong performance of raiding duo Rohit Gulia and GB More, Gujarat Fortunegiants beat Dabang Delhi K.C. 31-26 in VIVO Pro Kabaddi League Season 7. GB More delivered a critical all-round performance as he scored 9 points- supporting both in offence and defence.

Rohit Gulia scored 7 points to help Gujarat Fortunegiants remain unbeaten in the league so far. Dabang Delhi KC. too hadn’t lost a match but had to face defeat against a strong Fortunegiants.
Naveen Kumar continued his form and scored another Super10 to lead the raiding department with 42 points from 4 matches.

“GB More is the surprise package of our team. He proved his worth in both offence and defense today against a very balanced Delhi squad,” said Gujarat Fortunegiants coach Manpreet Singh.

GB More also reached the 100 raid point mark in PKL. Naveen Kumar scored a raid in the 6th minute as Dabang Delhi KC trailed 2-6. The game was billed as the strongest defence taking on the leading raid point scorer of the season so far. 

Parvesh Bhainswal made a strong tackle to send Naveen Kumar to the bench in the 9th minute as Gujarat led 7-4. Delhi came back strongly to level the match at 9-9 after 16 minutes.

Dabang Delhi inflicted an all-out in the 18th minute to take the lead for the first time in the match as they led 14-11 at the end of the first half. 

The second half saw Gujarat’s Rohit Gulia get into the act as he scored 3 quick raid points as Gujarat leveled the match 16-16. He then made a 2-point raid and sent Ravinder Pahal to the bench in the 28th minute (19-18) lead. 

Gujarat inflicted an all-out in the 33rd minute to lead 25-20 and then held on till the end to emerge victorious. Gujarat are now one of the only two teams who are yet to lose a match in PKL season 7.

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