Telugu Titans defeated Patna Pirates 34-26 to claim third place and a cash prize of 30 lakhs as the second runners up of Star Sports Pro Kabaddi Season 2 at the Dome@SVP, NSCI in Mumbai today. Super raider Rahul Chaudhari brought in as a substitute scored 12 points including two super raids that helped Telugu Titans finish 3rd. For the Titans Prashant Rai scored seven raid points to support Rahul adequately. The Titans got their rivals all-out twice, once in each half.

The first all-out was inflicted in the 13th minute when the score was 12-5, while the second came when the score was 34-23. Both the all-outs were inflicted by Deepak and Rahul with the former again proving his all-round credentials.

The Titans consolidated their position to 16-8 by half-time because of a super raid of three points by Deepak Niwas Hudda. After this Rahul was brought on as Captain Meraj Sheykh left the field. For Patna it was Gurvinder who carried out raids to score three points. Patna’s move to play the lanky raider Vijay Malik failed as he could get only a solitary point.

In the second half Patna tried to make a fight of it by effecting three super tackles - two were executed by left corner Suresh who tallied five defence points. Sandeep, the Patna captain came up with some late resistance as he tallied seven raid points and had a total score of three defence points. But that was not enough to bridge the gap. The Titans reworked their strategy to keep their stranglehold on the game and take it beyond the finish line.

MATCH 59 – 3rd place playoff – PATNA PIRATES VS TELUGU TITANS


No.


Award


Player/Team


1


TVS Best Raider of the match


Rahul Chaudhari (Telugu Titans)


2


Bajaj Electrical Inspiring defender of the match


Sunil (Patna Pirates)


3


Star Sports Moment of the match


Rahul Chaudhari (Telugu Titans)


4


VIP Frenchie Big Impression player of the match


Sandeep Narwal (Patna Pirates)


5


Flipkart Audience Ki Wish player of the match


Prashant Rai Kumar (Telugu Titans)