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The seventh edition of the Pro Kabaddi 2019 ended on Saturday at the EKA Arena as Bengal Warriors won their first ever PKL title with a victory over Dabang Delhi K.C. The stand-in skipper of Bengal, Mohammad Nabibakhsh led the team from the front while his players backed him well to ensure that Naveen Kumar's 18 raid points go in vain.
This year's final was dominated by the raiders. In fact, raiders ruled the roost throughout the season. The likes of Pawan Sehrawat, Naveen Kumar, Pardeep Narwal, Pankaj Mohite, Deepak Hooda, Vikash Kandola, Siddharth Desai, Maninder Singh and Abhishek Singh set the season on fire with their heroics.
In the 137 matches of Pro Kabaddi 2019, the raiders scored an astounding 5,341 raid points at an average of 39 raid points/match. All the teams crossed the 350-point milestone this season while three teams even surpassed the 500-point mark in raid points.
Here, we will have a look at the top three raiding units of Pro Kabaddi 2019 -
#3 Bengal Warriors - 513 raid points
The champions of PKL 2019, Bengal Warriors played 24 matches this season where they recorded 513 raid points at an average of 21 raid points per game. They had the most versatile raiding unit of the season with their skipper Maninder Singh leading the raiding attack from the front. Singh alone scored 205 raid points while K. Prapanjan contributed 102 raid points to the team's cause.
Also, young raider Rakesh Narwal took a Super 10 this season and Sukesh Hegde also proved his worth with 61 raid points. Sourabh Patil too chipped in with a Super 10 in the 3 matches he played.
The most expensive foreign player of this season, Mohammad Nabibakhsh shone with 92 raid points in his debut season.
#2 Dabang Delhi K.C. - 532 raid points
The runners-up of Pro Kabaddi 2019, Dabang Delhi K.C. impressed the kabaddi universe with their stellar performances in the league round. They won all their league games at home and the raiders played a massive role in their success.
Their raiding attack consisted of Naveen Kumar, Chandran Ranjit, Neeraj Narwal and all-rounders, Vijay and Meraj Sheykh.
Naveen Kumar led the raiding department with 301 raid points in 23 matches. His substitute Neeraj Narwal replaced Kumar in one of the games and the youngster scored a Super 10 in that match.
The supporting raider of the side, Chandran Ranjit crossed the 100-point milestone while the former Patna Pirates star, Vijay took 48 raid points this season. The wily Meraj Sheykh too proved his worth with a Super 10 and 41 raid points in PKL 2019.
Delhi had an average of 22 raid points per match but they still could not get the trophy. An interesting statistic to note is that Naveen Kumar scored 56.57% of Dabang Delhi K.C.'s raid points in PKL 2019. This shows how over-reliant the team was on the youngster.
#1 Bengaluru Bulls - 533 raid points
The Season 6 champions of the Pro Kabaddi League, Bengaluru Bulls crashed out of the tournament in the semi-finals after suffering a defeat at the hands of Dabang Delhi K.C. The Bulls had sneaked into the semi-finals after a narrow win over U.P. Yoddha in the eliminator match.
The entire team relied on Pawan Sehrawat as the best raider of this season amassed 346 raid points. Sehrawat alone scored an average of 14 raid points per match and during the season, he had even broken Pardeep Narwal's record of scoring the most raid points in a single match.
Apart from him, the team's raiding unit featured captain Rohit Kumar, Sumit Singh, Banty and Ashish Kumar. All-rounder Ashish failed to live up to his team's expectations as he could score only a solitary raid point.
The young player Banty scored 22 raid points in 15 matches while skipper Rohit Kumar managed to score 94 raid points in 19 games. Sumit Singh supported Sehrawat to perfection with 60 raid points this season.
Just like Naveen Kumar, Sehrawat did the bulk of scoring for the Bengaluru Bulls in PKL 2019.
