PKL: U Mumba beat Bengaluru Bulls 46-30 in opener

Abhishek Singh was the star for U Mumba as they beat Bengaluru Bulls 4630 in the inaugural match of Pro Kabaddi League season 8 held at The Sheraton Grand Whitefield here on WednesdayThe U Mumba raider clinched a Super 10 19 points and was ably supported by the teams defence in a statement victory by the Season 2 champions Pawan Sehrawat had an offday for Bengaluru Bulls who missed a quality third raider to support Chandran Ranjit and Pawan on the matchThe COVID pandemic meant there were no spectators at the stadium but that certainly didnt take the energy away from the match Interestingly left corner specialist Amit Sheoran was not picked by the Bengaluru Bulls to start the match in an other predictable team selection for both sidesThe first raid of the season resulted in a successful tackle on the highflyer Pawan Sehrawat by Harendra Kumar In fact the first minutes went on to be dominated by the team from Mumbai with Abhishek Singh picking up important raid points Fazel Atrachali captain of Mumbai in the left corner had very little to do as his defenders Harendra and Ashish Sangwan ensured the Bulls raiders struggled to pick the points U Mumba forced the games first ALL OUT in the 8 th minute andopened up a 6point lead 115But the Bulls Season 6 champions were in no mood to let Mumbai open up a healthy lead Chandran Ranjit produced two Super Raids 3 or more points for the Bulls to close the gap but Bengaluru failed to inflict an ALL OUT when Abhishek Singh revived his team with a 4point Super Raid The raider also clinched a Super 10 10 or more points in the process At half time U Mumba had a 7 point lead over Bulls 2417The lack of doordie raids in the first half was testimony to the high pace with which the encounter was being played The Bulls had just 1 tackle point in the half and they brought in Amit Sheoran But that could not stop U Mumba from inflicting another ALL OUT in the second minute after restartU Mumbas Ajith Kumar and the pack of defenders ensured the Bulls never narrowed points gap Just as Bulls sensed a comeback U Mumbas Sultan Fazel Atrachali produced a Super Tackle with 5 minutes in the clock and Ajith Kumar followed it up with a 3point Super Raid U Mumba fetched another all out with 3 minutes remaining to seal the matchThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever