PKL 9: UP Yoddha to lock horns with Jaipur Pink Panthers

All eyes will be on Rahul Chaudhari and Pardeep Narwal.

Jaipur Pink Panthers finished outside the playoffs spot in the last two seasons in PKL seasons 7 and 8 finishing 7th and 8th respectively. The inaugural champions will look to start on a bright note in PKL 9 against UP Yoddha who are coming into season 9 with good form qualifying for the playoffs in the previous two seasons.

Team News

Jaipur Pink Panthers

Raiders:

Ajith V Kumar, Arjun Deshwal, Devank, Rahul Chaudhari, Nitin Panwar, Navneet, Bhavani Rajput.

All-Rounder:

Rahul Gorakh Dhanawade.

Defenders:

Sunil Kumar, Abhishek KS, Ashish, Ankush, Sahul Kumar, Deepak, Woosan KO, Lucky Sharma, Reza Mirbagheri, Nitin Chandel.

UP Yoddhas

Raiders: Pardeep Narwal, Surender Gill, Nitin Tomar, James Namaba Kamweti, Rathan K, Gulveer Singh, Durgesh Kumar, Anil Kumar, Rohit Tomar, Aman Mahipal

All-Rounders:

Nehal Desai, Nitin Panwar, Gurdeep

Defenders:

Nitesh Kumar, Abozar Mohajer Mighani, Shubham Kumar, Babu Murugasan, Jaideep, Sumit, Ashu Singh

Head to Head

After UP Yoddhas's induction to the league in season 5, both teams have played 7 times with UP Yoddha leading 4-3. In PKL 8 the teams met twice with Jaipur winning the first encounter ad UP winning the second.

Player to watch

Pardeep Narwal shall be the player to watch out for after showing glimpses of form in the latter stages of PKL season 8. He played in both the Senior Nationals and the National Games representing Haryana and performed well. With Surender Gill and Nitesh Tomar in the UP squad, Pardeep can play freely without much pressure.

Key to Success

Both UP Yoddhas and Jaipur Pink Panthers will depend on their raiders to do well. Jaipur has got Arjun Deshwal, Ajith Kumar and Rahul Chaudhary in the raiding department. Rahul Chaudhary in the recently concluded National Games guided Uttar Pradesh to take the gold medal scoring a super 10. Ajith and Arjun have been performing well for the past few seasons.

UP on the other hand have Surender Gill, Pardeep and Nitin Tomar. Nitin combined with Rahul Chaudhary to take gold for Uttar Pradesh at the National Games and is getting back to form. So the match can turn out to be a high scoring one.

Did you know

Sunil Kumar was bought by Jaipur Pink Panthers for 90 lakhs after being released by Gujarat Giants in season 8. The second highest bid was from Ajith Kumar for 66 lakhs. Ajith Kumar is 20 points shy of reaching the 300 raid points.

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