The two best teams in the competition so far – Gujarat Giants and Odisha Juggernauts – will face each other at the Shree Shiv Chattrapati Sports Complex in Pune in the first qualifier for a place in the final of the ongoing Ultimate Kho Kho League 2022.
Both of these teams had won seven matches apiece and they had ticked the right boxes in the league stage. Gujarat Giants had won their last match against Rajasthan Warriors by five points while Odisha Juggernauts had lost by 29 points against Telugu Yoddhas by 29 points.
When these two teams met each other in the league stage on two occasions, both won one match each. Gujarat Giants had defeated Odisha Juggernauts by five points while the latter had taken its revenge in the next meeting as they won by three points. Thus, both of these matches had gone down the wire and another nail-biting contest could be witnessed by the fans.
Ranjan Sridhar Shetty will lead Gujarat Giants while Dipesh Vijay More and Milind Dilip Chavarekar will collectively lead Odisha Juggernauts.
Match Prediction: Gujarat Giants will enter the contest as favorites against Odisha Juggernauts.
Odisha Juggernauts squad:
Category A: Gowtham MK, Dilip Khandavi, Vishal, Jagannatha Murmu
Category B: Aditya Sunil Kudale, Nilesh Ananda Jadhav, Suraj Shital Lande
Category C: Dipesh Vijay More, Subhasis Santra, Mahesha.p, Avinash Shivaji Desai, Lipun Mukhi, Dinesh Naik S, Arjun Singh, Suresh Kumar, Thugana Vinod Kumar, Shiv Kumar Sen
Category D: Milind Dilip Chavarekar, Manoj Narayan Ghotekar, Darshanapu Sathish, Gurjinder Singh, Swayam Satyaprakash Parija, Mukesh Prajapat.
Gujarat Giants squad:
Category A: Ranjan Shetty, Pothireddy Sivareddy, Mareppa
Category B: Aditya Sunil Kudale, Nilesh Ananda Jadhav, Suraj Shital Lande
Category C: Abhinandan Mahadev Patil, Akshay Sandip Bhangare, Sagar Subhash Lengare, Monoj Sarkar, Dhiraj Vinod Bhave, S. Kavin Raj, Vinayak Sadashiv Pokarde, Bhat Hakmaji Govind, Chinmoy Nandi, Shubham Motiramji Jambhale, S Sarathkumar, Ajay Kumar Mandra
Category D: Aniket Bhagawan Pote, Nilesh Sarjerao Patil, Saleem Khan, Debendra Nath, Praful Raju Bhange.
