PKL 2024: Manpreet's Haryana Steelers defeated Ram Mehar's Gujarat Giants for the second time in the season

Manpreet Singh has once again won the fight of the renowned coaches. The 46th match of the 11th season of the Pro Kabaddi League saw Manpreet's Haryana Steelers defeated Ram Mehar Singh's Gujarat Giants 39-23. Haryana has defeated Gujarat a second time in consecutive games so far this season.

In the Sunday match at Noida Indoor Stadium, besides raider Rahul Setpal, who scored 8 points, the other contributors were all-rounder Mohammadreza Shadlu with 7 points and raider Vinay with 7 points to help Haryana achieve victory. Ghanshyam Magar brought them into the game with a super raid. Only Rakesh contributed 7 points, and defender Jitender Yadav managed to shine with 6 points for Gujarat. It was an exciting match where both teams were running back with 2-2 till 4 minutes, but Shivam Patare took two points on do or die and put Haryana ahead by 4-2. Then Rahul made a kill of Gumaan and reduced the gap to 3. Vinay again brought Gujarat into a super tackle situation with a kill.

When Vinay raided next, Neeraj went out. On Partik's raid, Shadlu got self-out and gave Gujarat one point. This was followed by some great comeback by Gujarat's defense as they snatched a kill of Vinay. Now, the score read 6-7 and by the end of the 16th minute, it became 10-10. Meanwhile, Ghanshyam put Haryana ahead 13-10 with a super raid in a do-or-die situation. Gujarat was in the super tackle position when an exciting situation came about. Then Shadlu wiped out Gujarat in one raid. The team from Haryana now had the lead 18-12. But soon after that all-in, Shadlu got out.