Patna Pirates suffered a narrow 42-47 defeat at the hands of Puneri Paltan as all the good work done by Pardeep Narwal came to a naught in the VIVO Pro Kabaddi League in Lucknow on Sunday.
Narwal scored a staggering 19 points but the defence failed his team. For Paltan, Rajesh Mondal scored 10 points as they capitalised on a solid first-half performance.
Paltan had a good first half as they didn’t give a chance to Patna Pirates. They led 22-8 after 14 minutes as Patna defence had no answer to Pune’s raiders. An all-out was inflicted by Pune and Patna were staring at a humiliating defeat.
Narwal tried to get back Patna into the game and scored two quick raid points in the dying minutes of the first half.
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