Shrikanth jadhav

Sree Kanteerava Stadium: Backed by a massive raiding performance, Bengal Warriors inflicted a first loss of the season on the Patna Pirates, beating them 60-42 at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium here on Tuesday, making this the 4th highest match points in PKL's history with a total of 102 points being scored.

Maninder Singh's 15 points, Nitin Kumar's 14 and Shrikanth Jadhav's 12 points extended the Warriors unbeaten run for the season, at the cost of the only other unbeaten team in the league.

A game between two unbeaten teams was always going to centre on who blinked first. As it was, it was the Bengal Warriors, whose talisman Maninder Singh was caught on his first raid of the evening. A tight Pirates defence ensured that they did not leak points while at the other end Sachin kept picking up points sporadically to keep them up on the scorecards.