Pro Kabaddi League 2017 Season 5: Five talking points from Day 21 of PKL 5

#3 Pardeep Narwal's late blitz goes in vain

Despite playing with a niggle, Narwal was the best raider of the game by a fair margin

The Patna Pirates looked down and out in the first 15 minutes of the game and their prospects in the game looked bleak as neither Goyat nor Narwal seemed to be firing for them against a belligerent Paltan defence. But Narwal is a feisty character and every time it appears that he has been sorted out by opponents, he brings out a performance that just provides a certificate of his incredibility. Sunday was just another such occasion.

After having faced two All Outs, Patna got their full strength team back on the mat but all looked lost with the score reading 21-7 in Pune's favour. Narwal then unleashed his attacking brand of Kabaddi and it all began coming off for him.

In no time, he had raced to his fourth Super 10 of the season. Expressions changed on the faces of the Pune side as they began sensing the threat that Narwal was beginning to pose. With a 4-point raid, the young man got his team very close to Pune's score with just about 3 minutes left but a niggle and a non-firing Monu Goyat prevented his team from doing the impossible.