Bengaluru bulls edge past hosts Patna pirates in PKL tie

IANS  |  Patna 

won their fourth match of Pro League while Pirates continued to have a dismal home leg as they lost 41-43 here on Wednesday.

Pardeep Narwal had a cold game while his fellow teammate tried his best to make a difference with 10 raid points.

have now clinched the top spot in Zone B while Pirates went down a place to fifth. This is Bengaluru Bulls' first win against Patna Pirates since Pro League Season 2.

Patna Pirates entered the game with 2 losses on the trot at home which they wanted to end. They started strongly with Pardeep Narwal getting Mahender Singh in the first

raid of the match.

Pawan Sehrawat made a great display of street smartness in his 3rd minute raid as he caught napping after Pawan got a touch point on Kuldeep Singh to make it 2-4 in Bengaluru's favour.

tried to recover by getting a on in the 10th minute to make it 8-9 after they were trailing by 3 points.

With out, Kashiling Adake made his mark on the match as he got 2 bonus points and a strong waist hold on to get a in the 13th minute to make a comeback for his team.

This didn't help them much as Patna Pirates inflicted an all out on in the 17th minute to make it 18-17. The half ended with the score reading 21-18 in favour of Patna.

The second half saw get bonus in regular intervals to keep the score ticking for Patna Pirates.

The 22nd minute saw the match make a great moment as Pawan Sehrawat leaped over to reach the midline and make the score 23-21.

made a great Super Raid in the 27th minute to get Jaideep, Vikas Kale and Kuldeep Singh out and make it 26-26.

This led to an amazing effort to get an all out on Patna by Pawan Sehrawat where he just crossed the midline in the 29th minute as he struggled between Ravinder Kumar,

Manish and to make it 26-32 in favour of Bengaluru Bulls. The 33 rd minute saw get a Super Raid after review where he got a bonus and and Sandeep to make it 30-35.A

They came back to equalize in the 36 th minute after they inflicted an all out to make it 36-36. This was countered by Pawan Sehrawat getting another Super Raid in the next raid to take back a 3 point lead.

Bengaluru Bulls lost their 5 point lead after Rohit Kumar got a yellow card which saw Patna creep back to equalize. The match ended with both teams having a Do-Or-Die raid which saw Bengaluru Bulls win the match 43-41.

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First Published: Thu, November 01 2018. 01:00 IST