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

#3 Not this time!

The celebrations told how desperately the Thalaivas wanted that victory

After they had come back into the match, the Thalaivas seemed determined to hold on to the lead for once. With less than 30 seconds left and his team with a lead of a point, Ajay Thakur had to just cross the baulk line and come back. However, he got his team a point too as well to extend the lead to two. But while celebrating his raid, when he could have killed time by not crossing the mid-line and end the game then and there, he came back, making another raid possible in the game.

Rishank Devadiga could have still made a match of it if he had got two points to draw the game with the last raid of the game but the Thalaivas gave him no chance. For the last raid of the game, the Thalaivas pushed one defender ahead who invited Devadiga to get a point off him while the rest formed a chain deep into the court. It proved to be one tactical masterstroke as well as a statement of intent for the move ensured that the raider couldn’t go back with more than one point.

And this way, one of the best matches of Pro Kabaddi League came to an end with Rishank Devadiga quietly walking back to hand Thalaivas the victory they thoroughly deserved.