Bengaluru: Up Yoddha Beat Fighting Telugu Titans 39-33 in the Pro Kabaddi League match on Saturday.
Yoddha is better in all departments with their robbers – Pardeep Narwal (10), Shrikant Jadhav (7) and Surender Gill (7) – take valuable points.
Telugu Titans has a great opportunity to return by causing all in Yoddha in the last minute but Captain’s decision Rohit Kumar to seize the boomerang.
Rajnish and Ankit Beniawal scored 9 points each for Titans who were without victory in the season 8.
Telugu Titans had Rohit Kumar back at the beginning of 7 but it did not really add to the robbing effort in the first round.
Rajnish and Ankit Beniwal showed a glimpse of their great potential, but half must belong to Yoddha who had a clear plan for the titans.
Their defensive angle duo from Sumit and Nitesh Kumar found a form after the initial attack made life difficult for the young Telugu Raiders.
At the other end, Pardeep Narwal, Jadhav Shrikant and Surender Gill took turns to eat points from defense.
Together, they hit everything on Titans with 7 minutes left to drop down to open the 3-point lead.
Yoddha set the time on the mat very well and ended half on it with a score of 19-14.