||**Pro Kabaddi League**|| : **Puneri Paltan** beat **U Mumba** by 26-24
**Pro Kabaddi League** : "Puneri Paltan" snatch win from under the noses of "U Mumba"
Puneri Paltan beat home side U Mumba in the match no. 48 of *Pro Kabaddi League* 2017 at Dome@NSCI SVP Stadium, Mumbai. Captain Deepak Hooda led the Paltan from the front and picked up eight raid points for his team. He bagged the 'Perfect Raider of the Match' award for his stellar performance. Whereas, Anup Kumar's men failed to close the match in their favour despite a good lead at the end of first half.
This was Puneri Paltan's second win over the former champions U Mumba in the fifth edition of the **Pro Kabaddi League**.
As is the case with every Kabaddi match, the one between "U Mumba" and Puneri Paltan lasted 40 minutes. The former were leading, and that too by a healthy margin for at every minute save for the last five. And yet, at the end of a low scoring thriller of a match U Mumba ended up losing the match by two points to "Puneri Paltan", their second consecutive defeat at home. Moreover, it is the second time on the trot that they have come agonisingly close to winning a match and then lost it.
"Deepak Niwas Hooda" scored the first point of the match and the two sides were going toe to toe for the first five minutes. Kashiling Adake then stepped up the ante in his raids and Mumbai took a 11-4 lead by the time the clock chimed 15 minutes. Adake, in the process scored his 400th Pro Kabaddi raid point. It was also at that point that Puneri Paltan suffered the first all out of the match. At half time, Pune were trailing Mumbai 9-15.
*U Mumba* kept their distance n the scorecard for most of the second half. The collapse, though, seemed to start when Sandeep Narwal, uncharacteristically quiet in his raids during the match, scored two touch points. U Mumba did manage to get points but Pune were chiping away at them through raids and tackles. Soon, U Mumba found themselves with just two players, Anup Kumar and Kuldeep Singh on the mat. The two of them survived two raids by the thick of their hairs. Kumar was soon dismissed and U Mumba were all out for the first time in the match. Until then, a *Puneri Paltan* was only a probability, something that one could hope for. It was mathematically possible, but it seemed quite a steep hill for Pune to climb. But after inflicting that all-out, which happened in the 35th minute of the match, the score was 20-19 in Mumbai’s favour. The home side’s lead was cut down to one point.
Puneri Paltan soon got into the lead and the last four minutes of the match saw both the teams exchanging points. The last minute of the match started with both teams level. Pune scored a tackle point and then a raid point. The final score read 24-26 in Pune’s favour. The sheer unpredicatbility of Kabaddi was on full display.
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