With six points, Jaipur Pink Panthers are placed at the bottom of the Zone A points table.
Jaipur Pink Panthers produced a breathtaking performance to beat Puneri Paltan 30-28. Jaipur captain Manjeet Chhillar scored nine points and stood like a rock for Jaipur as Pune suffered their first defeat of the league. Manjeet also became the first player to score 200 defence points in the history of the league. Both teams opened their account in the first minute as Tushar Patil and Deepak Hooda made successful raids. It looked like Pune would run away with the match as they led 9-6 but the Panthers made a come back to level the game at 9-9 in next few minutes. Santhapanaselvam scored three tackle points for Jaipur as they ended the first half leading 14-11. Just when it seemed like Pune were making a comeback, Jaipur scored three points in a row to lead 27-19
Puneri Paltan: Deepak Hooda, Ziaur Rahman, Takamitsu Kono, Sandeep Narwal, Girish Maruti Ernak, Dharmaraj Cheralathan, Rajesh Mondal, Ravi Kumar, Rohit Kumar Choudary, Umesh Mhatre, More G B, Akshay Jadhav, Suresh Kumar, Ajay, Narender Hooda
Jaipur Pink Panthers: Ajit Singh, Santhapanaselvam, Manjeet Chhillar, Jasvir Singh, Selvamani K., Jaemin Lee, Donggyu Kim, Manoj Dhull, Navneet Gautam, Somvir Shekhar, Pawan Kumar, Kamal Kishor, Tushar Patil, Vignesh B, Siddharth, Sunil Siddhgavali, Ravinder Kumar, Abhishek N., Rahul Choudhary
Tamil Thalaivas registered their first win of PKL season 5. (Source: Pro Kabaddi)
Bengaluru Bulls will be locking horns against Tamil Thalaivas in the second match of the day. After a comprehensive win over Bengal Warriors, captain Rohit Kumar will be relieved after his team ticked all the boxes and clicked as a whole unit. With Ajay Kumar, Ravinder Pahal, Ashish Kumar and Sachin, Bulls look more balanced on papers. Tamil Thalaivas, on the other hand, are a young unit and possess a chance to surprise any team on their day. Bulls will hope to end their home leg with a win before the league shifts to Ahmedabad.
Tamil Thalaivas: Ajay Thakur, Bhavani Rajput, Prathap, Rajesh, Anil Kumar, Amit Hooda, Mugilan, Donggeon Lee , Waleed Al Hasani, Chansik Park, Anil Kumar, C. Arun, Sanket Chavan, T. Prabhakaran, M. Thivakaran, Sombir, Vijay Kumar, Vijin Thangadurai, Muruthu M, Vineet Sharma, K. Prapanjan, Sujit Maharana, Darshan J., Sarang Arun Deshmukh, Ananthkumar
Bengaluru Bulls: Ashish Kumar, Harish Naik, Sumit Singh, Ravinder Pahal, Ajay, Rohit Kumar, Sinotharan Kanesharajah, Sanjay Shrestha, Sachin Kumar, Gurvinder Singh, Mahender Singh, Pradeep Narwal, Kuldeep Singh, Ankit Sangwan, Amit, Rohit, Preetam Chhillar, Sunil Jaipal
