Pro Kabaddi League 2017 Season 5: Five talking points from Day 54 of PKL 5

U Mumba have now won six of their last seven as Anup Kumar has got his young side performing

#2 Mumba continue to go with their 4-raider unit

Surinder Singh had a good night against the Bulls

Anup Kumar, Kashiling Adake, Shrikant Jadhav and Shabeer Bapu all took to the mat once again for U Mumba as they stuck with their approach of playing four raiders in the starting seven, an approach they had tried in their last encounter.

Anup was manning the left corner position once more. Kashi being in hot form, played the role of lead raider with the plan likely being that Shrikant would serve as his deputy. Shabeer and Anup would be the senior heads that would take raids when they needed to arrest their opponent's momentum or bring a level of calm to the game.

And that's exactly how things went down. The only thing that did not go to plan was that young Shrikant looked completely off his game tonight and the Mumba coaching setup decided to put Joginder Narwal in, back from injury, to man the left corner, allowing Anup some relief. They finished the night with that setup.

With Surinder Singh, a major liability in games past, having a solid night with six tackle points from nine attempts, Mumba managed to leverage their raiding strength to get the better of the Bulls.

Edited by Arvind Sriram