Patna Pirates continued their sensational type with a commanding 48-32 win over Jaipur Pink Panthers within the Eliminator 1 of the Professional Kabaddi League (PKL) 2025 on the Thyagaraj Indoor Stadium on Sunday. Ayan Lohchab led the best way but once more together with his fifth 20+ factors recreation – a feat solely Pardeep Narwal and Devank Dalal have achieved in PKL historical past – whereas Navdeep delivered a Excessive 5. For the Pink Panthers, Ali Samadi registered a Tremendous 10 that went down in useless.
Whereas Ayan opened his workforce’s account, Jaipur Pink Panthers sprung a shock with Parvinder being despatched in for his or her first raid. Ali Samadi additionally wasted no time to make his presence felt, however that was earlier than a sort out from Ankit Jaglan gave the Pirates a gap. Ayan adopted that up with a two-point raid, and it solely took his facet 5 minutes to inflict their first ALL OUT.
With a seven-point deficit, tackles from Vinay and Reza Mirbagheri together with Ali Samadi’s raid helped the Pink Panthers keep within the recreation. Nonetheless, Ayan and Milan Dahiya stored the scoreboard ticking with Ankit Jaglan additionally registering his second sort out, maintaining the Pirates in a 13-6 lead after the primary ten minutes.
They additional asserted their dominance with a second ALL OUT in fourteen minutes, courtesy a sort out from Navdeep. To make issues worse for the two-time champions, the Pirates raiders additionally piled on the strain with Ayan finishing his Tremendous 10 and Milan Dahiya inflicting a 3rd ALL OUT on the stroke of half time, giving their workforce an enormous 17-point lead (30-13) on the break.
Jaipur Pink Panthers got here flying off the blocks in the beginning of the second half. Ali Samadi discovered his groove, whereas their protection stepped up with Deepanshu Khatri and Aryan Kumar taking the rating to 30-18. They contributed with a few tackles, whereas Vinay additionally chipped in to convey the deficit down to 10 factors heading into the ultimate quarter.
Aryan Kumar’s third sort out of the night time introduced the deficit all the way down to eight factors, earlier than a sort out from Navdeep helped the Pirates regain their double-digit lead. The defender additionally accomplished his Excessive 5, guaranteeing that his workforce stayed within the driver’s seat. Nonetheless, Ali Samadi continued to struggle for the Pink Panthers, maintaining them within the recreation with the rating at 39-28.
With lower than 4 minutes to go, Ayan delivered the decisive blow on a Do-Or-Die Raid, getting two-points to ascertain a 41-29 benefit. He additionally climbed to the highest of the charts for essentially the most raid factors in PKL 12 (275), registering his fifth twenty-point recreation of PKL 12 and serving to the Pirates execute a fourth ALL OUT to finish a thumping 47-32 victory.