Home favourites Bengal Warriors choked in dying seconds to settle for a 26-26 tie against UP Yoddha in the Match 58 of Pro Kabaddi League 2017.<\/p>\n
Haryana Steelers snapped leaders Gujarat Fortunegiants’ seven-match unbeaten run with a dominating 42-36 win in the Pro-Kabaddi League at the Netaji Indoor Stadium in Kolkata on Saturday. In the second match of the day, home favourites Bengal Warriors choked in dying seconds to settle for a 26-26 tie against UP Yoddha.<\/p>\n
Trailing 11-14 at the break, Bengal Warriors did well to bounce back for a slender 25-24 lead in front of their star co-owner Akshay Kumar.<\/p>\n
But they could not seal the issue for a third tie, extending their unbeaten run to six matches, two points clear of UP (33) at the top of Zone B table.<\/p>\n
Earlier, eyeing their first win over Haryana in three outings, Gujarat had a solid seven-point lead at half time but faltered in last eight minutes with a fine all-out by Wazir Singh (9 points).<\/p>\n
Prasanth Kumar Rai was the architect of Haryana’s win with 14 raid points and two tackle points as he along with Singh combined well in the closing minutes to script a brilliant turnaround.<\/p>\n
Gujarat, however, held on to their Zone A lead with 42 points from 11 matches but all their two losses have come against Haryana while they also have a tie against the same rivals.<\/p>\n
Haryana now have 28 points from eight outings with four wins.<\/p>\n
Gujarat were watchful to start with and had a slender one point advantage (4-3) in early three minutes before they rode on Sachin’s incisive raids to stretch their lead to 15-10.<\/p>\n
Wazir earned three points with a superb raid to curtail the deficit but that was the only moment of brilliance for Haryana in the first half as Gujarat raced to a 20-13 lead at half-time.<\/p>\n
After the changeover, Gujarat extended their lead to 26-19 with 11 minutes left.<\/p>\n
But Wazir had different ideas when he earned Haryana four points to make it 28-25 before Rai’s raid enabled them trail past Gujarat with nine minutes to go.<\/p>\n
There was no looking back for Haryana from there on and Wazir’s all-out raid with five minutes left virtually sealed Gujarat’s hope for a fightback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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