PKL 2019, Bengal vs Pune: Can Maninder Singh takes his team to win today?

In Match 17 of VIVO Pro Kabaddi League, PKL 2019, Bengal Warriors will take on Puneri Paltan at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Indoor Stadium in Mumbai on Monday. Warriors have an average start of their pro kabaddi campaign, won one the first match while lost the second. On the other hand, Puneri Paltan had an awful start of their campaign, losing both the matches as raider failed to score crucial raid points while defenders went for advance tackle.

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Player battle: Bengal Warriors’ raiders vs Paltan’s defenders

 
Bengal raiding trio
 
Bengal Warriors have assembled a fantastic raiding unit in Pro Kabaddi 2019 led by their star raider Maninder Singh. Maninder is currently at eighth position overall in PKL raid points (541) and holds a fantastic raid point average of 8.9--the second best among all raiders in PKL who have played minimum of 30 matches. Maninder also holds the record for the fastest to 300 (35 matches), 400 raid points (46 matches) and 500 raid points (56 matches).  In Pro Kabaddi 2019 so far he has scored 15 raid points, but is yet to score a Super 10. He has got his raid points at a very good raid strike rate of 60.

Highest Raid Point Average – PKL (minimum 30 matches)
Raider	Avgerage Raid Points
Pardeep Narwal	10.2
Maninder Singh	8.9
Rahul Chaudhari	8.2

 

Behind him he has the Iranian Mohammad Nabibakhsh, who is making his PKL debut this season and K Prapanjan, one of the best young raiders in recent seasons of PKL. Meanwhile, Prapanjan has been steady in both games with 5 raid points in the first game against UP Yoddha and 7 raid points in the loss against Jaipur. He was Bengal’s best raider in the Jaipur match.

Bengal Warriors Secondary Raiders – PKL 2019
Raider	Matches	Raids	Raid Points	Avgerage Raid Pts.	Raid SR
Mohammad Nabibakhsh	2	19	10	5.0	53
K. Prapanjan	2	29	12	6.0	41

 

Pune’s star defenders yet to find their best form

Puneri Paltan have 2 of the top 10 defenders of all-time in PKL in their side. Surjeet Singh with 215 tackle points is 9th overall. Girish Ernak with 229 tackle points is 6th overall. But they have not shown their best performance in the first 2 matches so far in PKL 2019. Surjeet Singh had zero tackle points from 5 tackles in the first match against Haryana Steelers. But he recovered well with 4 tackle points from 4 tackles in the next game against U Mumba. Girish Ernak meanwhile has scored just 1 tackle point. He had 1 tackle point from 4 tackles against Haryana and zero from 4 tackles against U Mumba.

Puneri Paltan Lead Defenders – PKL 2019
Defender	Matches	Tackles	Tackle Points	Avgerage Tackle points	Tackle SR
Girish Ernak	2	8	1	0.5	13
Surjeet Singh	2	9	4	2.0	44

 

 
Bengal Warriors vs Puneri Paltan head to head
 
Head to head, Puneri Paltan have a slight edge as they won six out of 12 games while one match ended in a tie.

Match No.	Bengal Warriors	Puneri Paltan	Result
PKL 6, Match 68	26	22	Bengal Warriors won by 4 points
PKL 5, Match 112	25	19	Bengal Warriors by won 6 points
PKL 5, Match 28	17	34	Puneri Paltan won by 17 points
PKL 4, Match 30	34	34	Match Tied
PKL 4, Match 25	31	38	Puneri Paltan won by 7 points

 

 Bengal Warriros vs Puneri Paltan probable seven 
 

Bengal Warriors	Vs	Puneri Paltan
Baldev Singh	Right Corner	Shubham Shinde
Mohammed Nabibakhsh	Right In	R Sriram
Naveen Narwal	Right Cover	Surjeet Singh ©
Maninder Singh ©	Center	Pawan Kadian
Jeeva Kumar	Left Cover	Sanket Sawant
K Prapanjan	Left In	Manjeet
Rinku Narwal	Left Corner	Girish Ernak