Panchkula to host decider between UP Yoddha and Tamil Thalaivas

The sixth edition of Pro Kabaddi League has been exciting. Today is the second day of Panchkula leg. Two matches will commence. Home team Jaipur Pink Panthers will take on U Mumba. Before this match, UP Yoddha will play against Tamil Thalaivas. When these two teams met in PKL 6 for 2 times both teams have won one match each. So this will be the decider match of their derby.

Team Analysis:

UP Yoddha

Standing at the fifth place in Zone B points table, UP Yoddha was successful in winning their previous outings against Telugu Titans. Prashanth Kumar Rai, Shrikant Jadhav were done good raids. Nitesh Kumar was phenomenal with scoring 5 tackle points. Narender, Sachin Kumar, and Jeeva Kumar defend UP team very well.

Tamil Thalaivas

Yesterday Tamil Thalaivas lost against Bengal Warriors and got eliminated from the race for playoffs. In that match, Skipper Ajay Thakur, Sukesh Hegde raid appreciably with 5 and 4 raid points to their names. In defense, Amit Hooda was fabulous with 7 points. But C Arun, Ponaparthiban Subramanian, and Sunil did not support him.

Head To Head

UP Yoddha 2 – 2 Tamil Thalaivas, 1 Tie

Key Battle

Nitesh Kumar VS Ajay Thakur

UP Yoddha’s right corner Nitesh Kumar is their top defender. He has scored 67 tackle points from 18 matches. He will be challenged by Tamil Thalaivas skipper Ajay Thakur. Being highest raid points scorer for his team Ajay ha 175 raid points to his name in 19 matches.

Key Players

Prashanth Kumar Rai, UP Yoddha

Prashanth Kumar Rai is one of the significant players of UP Yoddha. He has clinched 90 raid points from 14 matches.

Amit Hooda, Tamil Thalaivas

Having 38 tackle points from 15 matches Amit Hooda is the vital player of Tamil defense.

Match Timing

The match will be held at 8 pm (IST) at Tau Devilal Sports Complex, Panchkula.

TV Broadcasting

Star Sports network will broadcast the match. hoststar.com will also broadcast the match online.

Squads

UP Yoddha 

Rishank Devadiga, Prashanth Kumar Rai, Jeeva Kumar, Shrikant Jadhav, Sachin Kumar, Seaong Ryeol Kim, Suleiman Kabir, Narender, Rohit Kumar Choudary, Amit, Bhanu Tomar, Pankaj, Nitesh Kumar, Azad Singh, Nitin Mavi, Vishav Chaudhary, Akram Shaikh, Sagar Krishna

Tamil Thalaivas

Ajay Thakur, Sukesh Hegde, Surjeet Singh, Darshan J, Manjeet Chhillar, Jasvir Singh, K Jayasselan, Athul MS, Sunil, Chan Sik Park, Anil Sharma, Abhinandan Chandel, D Gopu, Vimal Raj, Jae Min Lee, Amit Hooda, C. Arun, D Pradap, Rajnish, Anil Kumar, Anand