PKL 9: Maninder Singh's Bengal Warriors and U Mumba to lock horns

The team from Mumbai leads in the head-to-head record between them.

Bengal Warriors will face U Mumba on Saturday in match 47 of the Pro Kabaddi League PKL season 9.

Bengal Warriors defeated Dabang Delhi 30-35 in their last game. The Bengal Warriors will now try to maintain their current momentum. Bengal Warriors are currently ranked fifth in the Pro Kabaddi League points table, with 21 points after seven games.

U Mumba crushed Gujarat Giants by 37-29 in the last match. Guman Singh and Heidarali Ekrami scored 12 and 10 raid points for U Mumba.

Team News

Bengal Warriors

Raiders: Maninder Singh, Shrikant Jadhav, Akash Pikalmunde, Suyog Gaikar, R Guhan, Parshant Kumar, Aslam Thambi.

All-Rounders: Deepak Hooda, Ashish Sangwan, Vinod Kumar, Ajinkya Kapre, Rohit, Manoj Gowda, Balaji D

Defenders: Girish Maruti Ernak, Surender Nada, Amit Sheoran, Parveen Satpal, Shubham Shinde, Sakthivel R, Soleiman Pahlevani, Vaibhav Garje

U Mumba

Raiders: Guman Singh, Ashish, Heidarali Ekrami, Jai Bhagwan Ankush, Kamlesh, Shivam, Pranay Rane, Sachin, Rupesh

All-Rounder: Gholamabbas Korouki

Defenders: Rinku, Surinder Singh, Harendra Kumar, Shivansh Thakur, Prince, Kiran Magar, Rahul, Satywan, Mohit.

Head to Head

Mumba leads 10-4 in the head-to-head encounter between the two teams.

Player to watch

Guman has flourished as the lead raider for Mumba. The team would hope that he has another good day against the Warriors. He will be under the spotlight purely because Mumba spent a hefty account to acquire him.

For Bengal Warriors, Girish Ernak will be the one to look out for. He is the leading defender in the tournament so the team would hope that he can continue to torment opposition raiders.

Key to success

The defence of both teams is quite strong. So it's going to be a contest between the raiders. If Maninder has a good day then there can be no stopping the Warriors. While for Mumba if Rinku Narwal and Surender perform as per expectation then the team can challenge Bengal.

Did you know

Mighty Maninder was part of the Jaipur Pink Panthers in season 1.

Broadcast – PKL 9

Time – 09:30 PM

Streaming – Star Sports / Disney + Hotstar