PKL Season 6: Puneri Paltan to lock horns with U Mumba in the second game
Pro Kabaddi League season 6 is to kick-off from today. Chennai will host the matches for 5 days from today. After the opening match between Tamil Thalaivas and Patna Pirates second match will be Maharashtra Derby. Puneri Paltan will be up against U Mumba.
Season 2 champions U Mumba led by Iranian Fazel Atrachali will face Girish Ernak’s Puneri Paltan.
Team Analysis
Puneri Paltan
Raiding department will be led by Nitin Tomar. Deepak Kumar Dahiya and Rajesh Mondal will be a supportive raider to him. Girish Ernak, Vinod Kumar, Sandeep Narwal will form a defense unit of the paltan. Youngsters Akshay Jadhav and Rinku Narwal have shown their spark in the previous season can also do wonders for the team.
U Mumba
U Mumba defense consists of Fazel Atrachali, Dharmaraj Cheralathan, Surinder Singh and Rohit Rana. Their raiding unit has reliable raiders like Abolfazl Maghsodlou, Darshan Kadian, and Rohit Baliyan who will be waiting for a chance to prove themselves and grab the chance to be a team’s primary raider.
Head to Head
Both the teams have clashed 11 times in which U Mumba has won 7matches and Puneri Paltan s was successful in winning 4 matches.
Key Battle
Nitin Tomar vs Fazel Atrachali
The battle between Left raider Nitin Tomar of Puneri Paltan and Left corner Fazel Atrachali of U Mumba will be most interesting to watch as both of them are significant to their teams.
Key Players
Sandeep Narwal, Puneri Paltan
With his fearless raiding and defense Sandeep Narwal, one of the best all-rounders of the league can turn the game by his side at any minute of the game.
Abofazl Maghsodloumahali, U Mumba
Iranian raider Abolfazal Maghsodloumahali is back in U Mumba after two seasons. With his raiding, will be a prime raider for U Mumba.
Match Timing
The match will be held at 9 pm (IST) in Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium, Chennai.
TV Broadcasting
Star Sports network will broadcast the match. And hoststar.com will broadcast the match online.
Squads
Puneri Paltan
Nitin Tomar, Vinod Kumar, Sanjay Shrestha, Parvesh, Akshay Jadhav, Bajrang, Takamitsu Kono, Sandeep Narwal, Rajesh Mondal, More GB, Girish Maruti Ernak, Vikash Khatri, Rinku Narwal, Monu, Amit Kumar, Ravi Kumar
U Mumba
Fazel Atrachali, Dharmarajan Cheralathan, Abhishek Singh, Siddharth Desai, Vinod Kumar, Abofazl Maghsodloumahali, R Sriram, Rohit Baliyan, Hadi Tajik, Adinath Gavali, E Subash, Surinder Singh, Shiv Om, Gaurav Kumar, Mohit Balyan, Anil, Arjun Deshwal, Darshan Kadian, Rajaguru Subramanian