Delhi beat UP in inconsequential PWL tie

New Delhi, Jan 15 : Delhi Sultans ended their disastrous Pro Wrestling League (PWL) campaign with a thrilling 4-3 victory over Uttar Pradesh Dangal in an inconsequential tie between the bottom-placed teams at the K.D. Jadhav Indoor Stadium here on Sunday.Delhi thus registered their only win of this year s PWL, finishing with a mere two points form their five league matches.UP ended up at the last spot -- just below Delhi -- having lost all their five matches.UP won the toss and decided to block the 75 kg Women s category, as Delhi s foreign import Alina Makhynia sat out. Delhi Captain Sakshi Malik chose to block the 97 kg Men s category as both the Men s and Women s heaviest weight categories were blocked for the evening.The opening bout saw UP s Tariel Gaphrindashvili lose to Delhi s Parveen Rana 7-12 in the 74 kg men s category. UP s star wrestler and gold medallist in the 2014 Commonwealth Games, Babita Phogat pipped her younger sister Sangeeta Phogat 6-4 in the 53 kg somen s category to equalise 1-1.Andrey Kviatkovski made it 2-1 for UP as he won 16-0 by virtue of Technical Superiority over Surjeet Grewal, who replaced injured Bajrang Punia for the match. Kviatkovski finished things inside the first minute with a death grip, effecting a takedown first and combining it with a series of rollovers.Delhi levelled 2-2 soon as three-time Olympic medallist Mariya Stadnik outmuscled UP captain Elitsa Yankova 11-1 in the 48 kg Women s category.Delhi then went on to take a 3-2 lead as captain Sakshi Malik made short work of UP s Manisha, Winning By Fall and a 12-0 scoreline.UP s Amit Kumar Dahiya staged a remarkable comeback late in the penultimate bout as he won over Delhi s Erdenebat Bekhbayar 3-1 in the 57 kg men s category to level the teams at 3-3.In the decider, Georgian wrestler David Tlashadze sealed the tie for Delhi as he overcame Amit Dhankar 8-6 in the 70 kg men s category. Following the win, Delhi coach Sujeet Mann said: "Our team has not performed so well because our star player Bajrang got injured and then Bekhbayar was also unwell. Hence the team received a setback."Happy about team s win but yes today was our last match and we ended the campaign with a great victory."