The teams will be updated after the final lineups are out.
Tournament: Pro Kabaddi League
Venue: Gachibowli Indoor Stadium, Hyderabad
Date: Monday, 5th December 2022
Time: 7:30 PM IST
The second-placed Puneri Paltan will go head-to-head against the eleventh-placed Patna Pirates on Monday evening. The Paltan have qualified for the playoffs but will look to seal a spot in the top two with a win here while the Pirates are out of the playoff race after losing their last three games. When these two met earlier, both teams ended up sharing points in a 34-34 tie game.
Puneri Paltan:
Pankaj Mohite, Sombir, Fazel Atrachali, Sanket Sawant, Abinesh Nadarajan, Mohammad Esmaeil-Nabibakhsh, Akash Shinde.
Patna Pirates:
Sachin Tanwar, Mohammadreza Chiyaneh, Sunil Kumar, Manish, Neeraj Kumar, Rohit Gulia, Monu.
Puneri Paltan:
Akash Shinde has been one of the rising stars of this Paltan side. He has put up 118 raid points and three tackle points from 19 matches.
Abhinesh Nadarajan registered his first High five of the tournament by scalping five tackle points last time out. He has now recorded 27 tackle points from 12 matches.
Fazel Atrachali is the undisputed leader of his team. He has won 47 tackle points from 18 matches and has scored three High fives in the process.
Patna Pirates:
Sachin has scored 162 raid points from 18 matches and is among the top 10 raiders of the season. He has scored seven Super 10s along the way and won eight raid points against PUN in the reverse fixture.
Mohammadreza Chiyaneh has been highly impressive on defence despite their struggles. He has struck 69 tackle points from 17 matches and ranks second among the defenders.
Rohit Gulia has recorded 138 raid points from 17 matches and comes into this game on the back of three consecutive Super 10s. He now has six of them in total for the season.
Must-haves:
Worth a shot:
Mohammadreza Chiyaneh: Mohammadreza Chiyaneh has scored four High fives this season and is in good form, with nine tackle points in his last two games.
Akash Shinde: Akash Shinde scored his fourth Super 10 of the season last time out against DEL as he racked up an impressive 16 raid points and we back him to carry on the momentum from that display.
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