Guman, Zafardanesh sizzle as U Mumba defeats Tamil Thalaivas

PUNE: A clinical performance saw U Mumba defeat Tamil Thalaivas 46-33 in the PKL Season 10 game at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex on Sunday. U Mumba’s raiding duo of Guman Singh and Amir Mohammad Zafardanesh recorded Super 10s as they scored a massive 21 points in the game.

The two teams traded successful raids in the opening minutes, with neither budging an inch. Soon though the game was thrown wide open via Guman Singh’s SUPER RAID that opened up U Mumba’s lead. Guman would go into halftime with 11 points from 9 raids, a success rate of over 100 per cent, as his team took 20 raid points from the first half.

While Guman took the spotlight, U Mumba’s second raider Zafardanesh chipped away silently and was chiefly responsible for inflicting the first ALL OUT of the game as U Mumba took a 19-9 lead. It consolidated that further, taking an 11-point lead into the break.

While Thalaivas stopped the flow of points briefly in the second period, U Mumba’s smart defending meant it never really got too close to chipping away the lead. Just when it seemed like U Mumba was struggling on the raids, Zafardanesh came up with a SUPER RAID to increase the gap.

That raid cascaded into a second ALL OUT as U Mumba took a commanding 40-24 lead with five minutes to play. It came down to the Thalaivas to try and cut their losses and salvage a point from the game, but U Mumba’s defence was in no mood to go soft as they took a huge win.