On Day 4 of Vivo Pro Kabaddi League 2019, Telugu Titans locked horns with Dabang Delhi K.C. at the Gachibowli Indoor Stadium, Hyderabad. It promised to be an intense battle between Bahubali Siddharth Desai and The Hawk Ravinder Pahal which was dominated by Siddharth Desai in the previous season.

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Surprising start by Titan's in the first half by sending the Debutant Suraj Desai to start of the proceedings who fetched couple of points in his first raid itself. Experienced defensive corners of Telugu Titans Abozar Mighani and Vishal Bharadwaj were tested by Naveen kumar to put Dabang Delhi in lead in the opening minutes of the first half.

Brother's raiding duo of Suraj and Siddharth Desai tried to put Titans ahead of Delhi but were outplayed by the raiding sensation Naveen Kumar scoring 8 raid points in the first half which equaled raid points from both Suraj with 5 and Siddharth with 3 points. Nothing much was there to differentiate between the two teams with 13-12 at the end of first half in favour of Delhi.

In was an intense affair in the second half as both Naveen Kumar and Suraj Desai went head to head scoring subsequent points for their teams.

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4 point raid from Suraj Desai in the 10th minute of second half puts Titans in lead, but the lead was soon leveled up by Dabang captain Joginder Narwal  with a sensational Super tackle.

Defense of Titans had no answer to the sheer brilliance of Naveen Kumar as he steer headed Delhi with a 3 point lead with just over two minutes to go in the match. Prominent raider for Titans Suraj Desai tried his level best to close the gap, only to fall one point short. Match ended in favour of Dabang's of Delhi with 34-33 against Telugu Titans.

Best performance on debut by Suraj Desai with 18 points leaving behind his own brother Siddharth Desai and the legend Rakesh Kumar, Titan's loose their third match in a row as their defense still looks a bit rusty, but will be hopeful seeing Suraj accompanying his brother in the raiding department.

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Siddharth Desai who has not fired till now in the tournament, can he perform against the experienced cover combination of Joginder Narwal and Ravinder Pahal? Raiding trio of Dabang Delhi including Naveen Kumar, Chandran Ranjit and Meraj Sheykh expected to dominate against the miss firing defense of Telugu Titans.

Debutant Suraj Desai's performance will be of key importance for Titans as Siddharth has not been in the form he was last season. Titans however are ahead of Dabang Delhi in terms of head to head battle till now with 8-1, can Delhi turn this around would be interesting to watch.

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