Pro Kabaddi League 2017 Season 5: 5 talking points from Day 33 of PKL 5

#5 Maninder's decisive super raid

Maninder Singh put a quiet first half behind him to come up with a decisive super raid in the second half

The second half brought the expected resurgence from Tamil Thalaivas. Having gone into the first half with a hefty lead, Warriors were forced to play defensively in the absence of their lead raider Jang Kun Lee who was nursing an injury. That played into the hands of the Thalaivas who upped the ante and crawled their way back into the contest in the last 10 minutes.

With just a couple of minutes left on the clock, the Thalaivas were breathing down the neck of the Warriors with just one point separating the sides. Having already played out three ties this season, it looked like it was heading for another one in the NSB Indoor Stadium.

That’s when Maninder, who was having a quiet game until then, sprung into action. The onus was on him to kill time or get a bonus to help the Warriors stay in the lead. But the Jalandhar boy, helped by the sloppiness of the Thalaivas defence of, made it a super raid and sealed the fate of the game. The Warriors, as a result, continued their dominant run in Zone B, giving the home crowd who had come out in large numbers to support their team, ample reason to smile.