PKL 9: Haryana Steelers will face Bengal Warriors to stay alive in tournament

The Warriors will look to settle the score.

Haryana Steelers and Bengal Warriors will face off in Pro Kabbadi League (PKL) Match 114. Amid the points table, both teams are vying for supremacy. However, whereas Bengal Warriors has lost its last two games, Haryana Steelers has won two straight. Haryana Steelers played as a team in their last encounter, and players like Nitin Rawal and Manjeet are in excellent form. They would want to keep winning and end their campaign on a good note. Meanwhile, Bengal Warriors lost their last game against U.P. Yoddhas by a tiny margin, and only skipper Maninder Singh appeared to be in decent form.

Team News

Bengal Warriors

Raiders – Maninder Singh (c), 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

Haryana Steelers

Raiders: Prapanjan, Rakesh Narwal, Manjeet, Vinay, Mohammad Mahalli, Lovepreet Singh, Sushil, Meetu, Manish Gulia.

All-Rounders: Nitin Rawal.

Defenders: Joginder Narwal, Jaideep, Mohit, Ankit, Monu, Naveen, Harsh, Sunny, Amirhossein Bastami.

Head to Head

Haryana Steelers and Bengal Warriors have faced each other 7 times with Haryana maintaining a 6-1 lead. The only time Bengal Warriors beat Haryana Steelers was back in season 7.

Player to Watch

For the Steelers, it will be Nitin Rawal. He has been the backbone of the team even though he does not have many points to his name in the season, he has played like a seasoned player, and the Steelers would hope that he can keep the team calm as Steelers still have hope to qualify into the playoffs.

For the Warriors, the most important player is going to be Girish Ernak, if he can play to his potential, the Warriors can definitely win the game. He is their best defender of the season.

Key to Success

For the Haryana Steelers they need to play like a unit, when their raiders perform, their defence gives away points. They would want Manjeet to do well.

For the Warriors, they would hope that Maninder Singh gets some support in the raiding department. He has become like a one-man army in the raiding department.

Did you know

Maninder Singh has the 2nd highest raid points in the history of PKL.

Broadcast

Time – 09:30 PM

Streaming – Star Sports / Disney + Hotstar