Maninder Singh and Jang Kun Lee did the star turn for Bengal Warriors as it overcame a 10-point deficit with less than eight minutes remaining to help the side stay on top of Zone B with a 32-31 victory against Telugu Titans in the ProKabaddi League on Tuesday. With this win, Bengal extended its lead at the top of the table to 14 points.
With the teams staying almost level for a large part of the game, it took Nilesh Salunke’s successful raid to earn his team the first all-out of the match in the 16th minute, and with it a precious three-point lead at half-time. Salunke scored 10 points for Titans but faltered towards the end even as Maninder and Lee took turns, snatching one point at a time, to keep Warriors in the hunt.
It looked a lost cause for Warriors when Salunke inflicted a second all-out in the 32nd minute and the side trailed 19-27 before the raiding duo got into the act, first levelling scores and then producing the winner in the final raid of the game.
The result: Bengal Warriors 32 (Jang Kun Lee 9, Maninder Singh 7, Surjeet Singh 5) bt Telugu Titans 31 (Nilesh Salunke 10, Rahul Chaudhari 4, Vishal Bhardwaj 4).
