PKL Season 6: Tamil Thalaivas will look for the right combination against Bengaluru Bulls tonight
Pro Kabaddi League Season 6 leg two will wrap up today. Kabaddi fans got to see some close and thrilling encounters in the Sonepat leg. Today also there will be two matches. In the first one Bengaluru Bulls will be up against the Tamil Thalaivas in Southern Derby. After this match home team Haryana Steelers will take on U Mumba.
Team Analysis:
Bengaluru Bulls
When last time these two teams faced each other Bulls won the match by 11 points. Pawan Kumar Sehrawat and Kashiling Adake gave brilliant performances in the raiding. As well as their defensive show was also great. But they failed to stop Tamil Thalaivas skipper Ajay Thakur who scored 19 raid points and 1 tackle point in that match.
Tamil Thalaivas
Tamil Thalaivas have won only one match in their home leg and have lost 4 consecutive matches. In raiding, Ajay Thakur and Athul MS are in the form. But their defense is leaking points which is the main reason they are loosing matches. Manjeet Chhillar and Amit Hooda are not upto the mark. Whereas cover defenders are completely out of form. It seems that their combination is not working for them.
Head to Head
Bengaluru Bulls 3 – Tamil Thalaivas 1
Bengaluru Bulls have won 3 matches against the Thalaivas. Whereas Tamil Thalaivas have managed to win only one match against Bulls.
Key Battle
Rohit Kumar VS Ajay Thakur
Both Ajay Thakur and Rohit Kumar are the captains of their side. Both of them are one of the best raiders of the PKL history. While Ajay is leading the raid points chart Rohit is yet to make his mark in it. Their contribution to their team will be crucial one in this match.
Key Players
Pawan Kumar Sehrawat, Bengaluru Bulls
Last time when these teams faced each other Pawan scored 20 raid points with the help of 3 Super Raids including 5 points raid. Pawan will be crucial to the Bulls team.
Athul MS, Tamil Thalaivas
Raider Athul MS is supporting Ajay Thakur well. In the last three matches, he went for the do-or-die raids as well and scored valuable points.
Match Timing
The match will be held at 8 pm (IST) at Motilal Nehru School of Sports, Rai, Sonepat.
TV Broadcasting
Star Sports network will broadcast the match. hoststar.com will also broadcast the match online.
Squads
Tamil Thalaivas
Ajay Thakur, Sukesh Hegde, Surjeet Singh, Darshan J, Manjeet Chhillar, Jasvir Singh, K Jayasselan, Atul 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
Bengaluru Bulls
Rohit Kumar, Pawan Kumar, Mahender Singh, Kashiling Adake, Jasmer Gulia, Raju Lal Choudhary, Ashish Kumar, Dong Ju Hong, Gyung Tae Kim, Sandeep, Jawahar Vivek K, Mahesh Magdum, Mahendra Singh Dhaka, Nitesh BR, Anil, Anand V, Rohit, Harish Naik, Amit Sheoran, Sumit Singh Mithin Kumar