Chennai, 30 September (Read News). With the help of Captain Vijay Malik and all-rounder Bharat, the Telugu Titans defeated Patna Pirates 37-28 in the 55th match of the 12th season of the Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) played at the SDAT Multi Purpose Indoor Stadium here on Tuesday.

Telugu Titans has now reached third place with 12 points in 11 matches and third consecutive wins. Patna Pirates have suffered a seventh defeat in nine matches.

Apart from Vijay Malik’s 13 points for the winner Telugu, Bharat took eight and Ankit took four points. At the same time, only Ayan went on for Patna, who made 13 points in his name.

In this season, the Telugu Titans started a good start under the leadership of Vijay Malik. In the first ten -minute game, Vijay Malik took four points while Maninder Singh of Patna was tackled in raids both times. But on the basis of Ayan, Patna was behind just one plain and the score was in favor of Titans 8-7.

In the 13th minute of the match, Ayan gave Patna a lead in the match for the first time by putting a three point super red in the match. After Ayan, Sudhakar M also strengthened the lead by taking points. But Telugu again gained 12-12 equals.

The problem of Patna was that Maninder was not able to run at all today and he was dismissed for the third consecutive time. Despite this, the Pirates was ahead of 16-15 until the end of the first half because Ayan had collected nine points. Ayan also completed his 100 points in this season.

After the start of the second half, the Telugu Titans went ahead in the match by super tackle to Ayan. However, after some time he returned to the mat. By the 25th minute, the two teams were at 20-20 equal and Telugu Titans made a 24-20 lead by the 30th minute with the help of Bharat and Defense.

Titans along with this allot out to Patna in the 32nd minute and took the score to 29-21. The defense of the pirates did not appear in its color at all today and due to this the team fell behind 10 points till the 35th minute. Meanwhile, Captain Vijay Malik of Telugu also put his super-10. On the other hand, Ayan also completed his fifth Super-10 today.

In the last minutes of the game, the Telugu Titans was ahead of about 10 points. In the last minute, Captain Vijay Malik once again put three points Super Red and Telugu Titans won a 37-28.

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(Read) / Prabhat Mishra