World7 scored an exciting 33-32 win over Indian7 in the All-Star kabaddi match, organised as a prelude to ProKabaddi League Season-7, at the Gachibowli Indoor Stadium here on Saturday night.
The winner trailed 14-20 at half-time.
For the Ajay Thakur-led Indian7, the star performer in the first-half was Pawan Sehrawat, who was the most valuable player of PKL last season.
But to the credit of World7, it rallied strongly, especially in the last five minutes thanks to star raiders Fazal Mohammad Esmaeil Nabibakhsh, Jang Jun Lee and captain Fazel Atrachali.
What tilted the scales in World7’s favour in the dying minutes of the game was the brilliance of Nabhibaksh whose 39th-minute all-out raid helped the team stretch the lead to 32-30.
Pawan Sehrawat was given the big moment to snatch the game back, but he succumbed to Jang Kun Lee’s ankle hold in the penultimate raid of the match.
