Clean as a Whistle!!!!!: August 2019

One thing that could satisfy my soul is Sports. Any game that we witness in person is going to give that satisfaction and real time game feel. I have been to International Cricket matches, IPL, Ranji Trophy, Irani Trophy, Club level Football, and International Hockey. Indian Super League and Pro Kabbadi League are the missing ones. Wanted to see Chennaiyin FC play for almost 5 years now and the 3 year dream finally got fulfilled last Saturday by watching Tamil Thalaivas play in the Pro

Kabbadi League.

Kabbadi was always played in the backwaters and there wasn't much awareness about it as there wasn't much media coverage. Thanks to PKL, this game has attained a global reach. The intensity of the game is high and I feel it is one of the best way to reduce one's weight by just watching the match.

I badly wanted to watch PKL match live and wasn't missing an opportunity this year as I was eagerly anticipating the Chennai leg of the tournament. It was scheduled to start on 17th of August and I planned to go to have this live experience. It was almost a full house on the day, but got disappointed as the security guards didn't allow me to take my backpack inside. I had to call my friend Prabhakar who lives near to the stadium and gave my bag to him and went inside.

I was all the more excited as I am going to watch Ajay Thakur live in action(He is my first Hero in Kabbadi). I waited patiently for 1 hour for the game to begin as I was an early bird. To be honest, Kabbadi has a great fan following in our city, many families came to witness the match. Cricketer Dinesh Karthick was in the house and was adding excitement.

All the wait was worth watching stars of the game on the mat, but sadly the team I support(Home Team) lost the match poorly. Still Watching great players like Ajay Thakur, Rahul Chowdary, Manjeet Chillar, Ran Singh, Pawan Sherawat, Rohit Kumar was great. Chennai was denied a point when Ajay was jersey pulled, but that is what sports is all about. If its not your day, everything goes against you.

Second match was very exciting as it ended in a tie between Bengal Warriors and Dhabang Delhi and that too with a review on the last raid. Great players like Maninder Singh, Prapanjan, Nabibaksh, Ranjith, Jogindar Narval and Naveen Kumar(Young Sensation) were on the mat and it was nice to see them in action.

Over all it was a great experience to watch a Kabbadi match live with so much excitement. Will share few pics and videos here.

For current status of the league logon to https://www.prokabaddi.com/

Tamil Thalaivas Entering the Mat against Bengaluru Bulls