Haryana Steelers improved their chances of qualifying for the play-offs by sealing a clinical 41-36 win ov💮er Bengal Warriors in a Pro Kabaddi League match in Patna on Monday.
Shivam Patare (12 points) and Siddharth Desai (11 raid points) excelled for the winning team, while Bengal Warriors skipp🐈er Maninder Singh (13 raid points) was his side's best pl🎃ayer.
Neither side ceded the advantage in the early minutes as Beng🍒al Warriors trailed 8-9 mid-way into the opening half. It was the Haryana Steelers who, finally, managed to open up a lead as they rode on🥂 some sharp raiding performances from Vinay and Shivam to go ahead 16-12.
It was a golden chance for them to extend their lead as the opposition was down to just one man, but Maninder produced a ma🥀ssive SUPER RAID to pick up three crucial points.
Shrikant Jadhav followed it up with a SUPER TACK🐻LE with a fiery dash on Shivam and the Bengal Warriors turned the game around to lead 18-16 at the break.
Haryana Steelers began the second half with just three men but fought their way back through some sublime raiding from Siddharth🧔.
T𒁏he muscular raider caused all sorts of problems for the opposition defence as he bagged four points off as many raids to pave 💯the way for an ALL OUT. Within four minutes of the restart, Haryana Steelers had taken a 24-22 lead.
They did wel🎃l to maintain their lead as Siddharth brought up his Super 10 with a classy multi-point raid and that was fol♑lowed by a two-pointer from Shivam.
Haryana Steelers were unstoppable thereon as a flurry of tackles and clever raids saw them inflict a second ALL OUT in the 33rd minute. The side from Haryana led by e🍌ight points at 37-29 with seven minutes to go✅.
Bengal Warriors made a late surge and Maninder did well to claﷺim a Super 10 and reduce the opposition to two defenders, but it was too little to🐽o late.
