Patna Pirates scored their second consecutive victory by beating Bengaluru Bulls 33-24 in season three of the Pro Kabaddi league here on Wednesday.
The star of the day was Rohit Kumar, who with his successful raids garnered eight points. This was fourth defeat of Bengaluru Bulls in their own backyard. Rohit was ably supported by Manpreet Singh and Sabdeep Narwal, who bagged four and five points.
At the halfway stage the winners had a 20-10 advantage after they gave one point lead 7-8 in 13th minute.
Sunil Kumar (2), D Suresh (3), Vinod Kumar and Pardeep Narwal displayed good kabaddi to help their team win.
The winners were aggressive from the word go. Bengaluru was okay with the raids, pocketing 17 points compared to 18 by the visitors, but the defence let them down with bagging just five points, whereas Patna scored 11 points.
Moreover, Bengaluru could not get the opponents all out as Patna, who did it twice. Captain Surjeet Singh was a big disappointment for the home side. However, Amit Rathi was the star performer who scored ten points with nine raid and one tackle point.
His efforts, along side with Shrikanth Tewthia (4) and Deepak Kumar could not save the night for Bengaluru, who lost their first match of the new season after they had beaten start-studded Delhi Dabang at Visakhapatnam.