Asian Kabaddi Championship 2023: India kick-off their campaign with a dominant 76-13 win against Korea

The Asian Kabaddi Championship 2023 at is underway at Busan, South Korea. Team India are playing their opening match against Hosts Korea and the defending champions have bamboozled the host nation right from the very first minute. 

Indian team's intensity saw them go miles ahead of Korea as the Men in Blue have a 36 point advantage. Thanks to a brilliance from Indian raiders, the score at half-time was 40-4. The Indian team head coached by Ashan Kumar and Sanjeev Kumar took a very early lead through a series of aggressive tackling and determined raiding. 

It took Korea a while to open their account as India took 9 points when Korea scored their first. 

2nd Half

After a dominant display in their first 20 minutes, India maintained their terrific form and continued to steal points away from a relatively weaker side. Every player in the Indian team looked absolutely calm and it was all about seeing off the match until full-time. 

The Men in Blue once again opened their scoring in the 2nd-half while Korea stole a point in the following sequence.

Green Card given

Korean player receives the first green card of the match

63-8

India earn a tackle point

65-8

Vishal Bhardwaj makes a tackle to increase the lead

66-8

Aslam Inamdar makes an empty raid

66-8

Mohit Goyat too comes back with an empty raid

67-8

Vishal Bhardwaj's brilliant ankle hold leads Korean raider out

68-8

Sachin Tanwar scores a raid point

68-9

Vishal Bhardwaj fails to hold the ankle this time

70-9

Mohit Goyat goes back with 2 points for his time

70-10

VIshal Bhardwaj again goes out again

71-10

Sachin Tanwar goes back with a touch point

74-10

Korea's number 9 fails to bring a point and are all out for the second time in this half

74-10

Aslam Inamdar just killing the time and comes back with no points. Mohit Goyat too comes back with an empty raid. 

75-10

Korea's number 9 steals a point, gets Parvesh Bhainswal

76-10

Aslam Inamdar brings a point in a do-or-die raid

76-11

Vishal Bhardwaj making a habit of landing a solid ankle hold

Last Raid

Korea number 1 took the final raid and creatively won a raid point but it's not enough

76-13

Team India kicks off their 2023 Asian Kabaddi Championship 2023 in style as they beat hosts Korea by a massive scoreline. The game never looked in the hands of Korea as India were dominant right from the very first second. 

India secure a comfortable win by 63 points and the stage is perfectly set for them to defend Asian title.