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Match details:

Tournament: Pro Kabaddi League
Venue: Sheraton Grand Whitefield
Date: Friday, 25^th December 2022
Time: 8.30 PM IST

Preview:

Puneri Paltan suffered a big loss in their 1^st match of PKL 8 against Dabang Delhi K.C. with a 41-30 score. The team’s defense seemed weak with only 5 tackle points with star man Vishal Bharadwaj registering only 1 tackle point. Telugu Titans, meanwhile, ended their 1st match of season 8 on a tie with a 40-40 score against Tamil Thalaivas. Siddharth Desai scored a good Super 10. The defense put up 13 points whereas the raiding department managed to score 22 raid points.

Probable starting line-ups:

Puneri Paltan:

Nitin Tomar, Pankaj Mohite, Rahul Chaudhari, Jadhav Shahji, Aslam Inamdar, Vishal Bharadwaj, Sombir.

Telugu Titans:

Sandeep Kandola, Ruturaj Koravi, C Arun, Surinder Singh, Siddharth Desai, Rajnish, Rakesh Gowda.

Fantasy breakdown:

Puneri Paltan:

Nitin Tomar the captain for Puneri Paltan led the way with 7 raid points against Delhi. He recorded a raid strike rate of 78%.

Aslam Inamdar, playing for the first time in PKL, registered 4 raid points. He also put up 1 tackle point for the team.

Rahul Chaudhari seems to be back in his form as he scored 5 raids points in the first match of PKL 8 with a raid strike rate of 50%.

Telugu Titans:

Siddharth Desai started PKL 8 with a Super 10, scoring 11 raid points with a 79% Raid strike Rate.

Sandeep Kandola, back into PKL after 5 seasons hit a High 5 in his first match of PKL 8 with a 100% Tackle Strike Rate.

Ruturaj Koravi, who was snapped up from the Gujarat Fortune Giants, took 3 valuable tackle points in his first match in PKL 8 with a 50% Tackle Strike Rate.

Top picks:

Must-haves:

• Siddharth Desai
• Sandeep Kandola
• Nitin Tomar

Worth a shot:

• Aslam Inamdar
• Rahul Chaudhari
• Ruturaj Koravi
• Rajnish

Captaincy options:

Siddharth Desai: Desai kick-started season 8 with a super 10 for a total of 11 raid points. He was 4^th last season with 217 total raid points for the Telugu Titans, and we expect another big performance from him here.

Nitin Tomar: Tomar has been one of the better raiders in the PKL over the years and has 14 super 10s in his career. He started off this season with 7 raids points and has an average raid points per match of 6.51 for his career. Look for him to make an impact here as well.

Fantasy team:

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