Pro Kabaddi League 2017 Season 5: Five talking points from Day 41 of PKL 5

#2 Thakur makes the second half his own

Thakur's (second from right) confidence reached peak high towards the end of the match

Ajay Thakur, for most part of the tournament, has been Thalaivas’ outstanding raider and has done his bit on most occasions to take the team close to victory, which, somehow has always eluded them. The captain, however, didn’t have the best of first halves on Wednesday. After seeing his side go 9-1 in no time, his raiding didn’t produce the points he would have liked them to.

But Thakur did help his team mount a comeback in the second half when he provided the moment of the day. Rishank Devadiga came in search of a point in the 26th minute but was brought down by the men in yellow and blue. However, his dangling hand could have still caused trouble and got him a super raid, in fact. That’s when Ajay Thakur jumped in and yanked the raider's whole body by his hand. Even last night, Wazir Singh’s dangling hand had managed to get him 5 points and, in that context, Thakur’s intervention proved really important.five

In the dying moments of the match, Thakur himself benefited when he somehow managed to push his hand across the mid line with all the Yoddha defenders on him for a tackle. That raid by Thakur proved to be the clincher in the end.