Pro Kabaddi League 2015 - U Mumba Achieve the Unthinkable, Win all Home games

Last season, U Mumba won 3 games and drew 1 in their home leg. Coming back to Pro Kabaddi League 2015, U Mumba have won 3 games and were on the verge of doing the unthinkable, winning all their home games which was never done by any team before. Well, the only problem was that they were facing the mighty Wazir Singh and his Puneri Paltan.

The game started at a slow pace with both captains, Anup Kumar and Wazir Singh, returning back empty handed from their raids. After 10 minutes into the 1^st half, U Mumba led 6-4. Wazir Singh was the star performer for Puneri Paltan earning majority of their points in the half. The half ended as the score read 10-9 in favour of U Mumba. It didn’t seem like the Puneri Paltan was going to let U Mumba achieve something unheard of by winning all their home games.

Bajrangi Bhaijaan Salman Khan was also in the Dome to see his home side before they leave for Kolkata to face the home side Bengal Warriors. Debutant Mahipal Narwal after taking a point in his very first raid brought the score level with another raid point early on in the 2^nd half. U Mumba’s defense was at it again with their super tackles. This time though, it was a raider Anup Kumar catching hold of his counterpart Wazir Singh with the support of Mohit Chillar to increase his teams lead. Another super tackle by U Mumba. Same victim, same number of points earner but the hunter was another raider Shabeer Bapu with Mohit Chillar again providing fantastic support. U Mumba went ahead 16-13 but Pravin Niwale earned  points for Puneri Paltan to make the score 16-15. Before you know it, the home side was down to one man and as soon as his raid started, he was plucked out by Paltan’s defense. 

Scores were closer than expected by me till the 31^st minute until U Mumba turned the screws in attack earning points on multiple occasions. Wazir Singh came on as the lone ranger for his raid and after earning a bonus point was looking for more victims but was unsuccessful. This lead to Puneri Paltan being all-out. The final score read 28-21 in favour of U Mumba. Voila! U Mumba had achieved the unachievable by winning all their home matches in Pro Kabaddi League 2015 which has never been done before. Shabeer Bapu was the star performer of the match earning 8 points for his side.

I hope this form can be carried forward by U Mumba and this time they go one step further and lift the Pro Kabaddi League 2015 trophy.