PVL: Confident Black Hawks Hyderabad to face Chennai Spartans

Chennai, which was far from its best against Calicut, will have to look at plugging the gaps which were evident in its opening fixture.

Published : Feb 06, 2019 18:35 IST , Kochi

Hyderabad will look to build on its performance against Ahmedabad Defenders as the young team showed great serving and attacking ability.
Hyderabad will look to build on its performance against Ahmedabad Defenders as the young team showed great serving and attacking ability.
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Hyderabad will look to build on its performance against Ahmedabad Defenders as the young team showed great serving and attacking ability.

After a hard fought 3-2 victory over Ahmedabad Defenders, Carson Clark-led Black Hawks Hyderabad will be looking to continue from where it left in the last match as it meets Chennai Spartans.

On the other hand, Chennai in its first fixture of the league went down to Calicut Heroes 1-4 on Day 2 of Pro Volleyball League.

Chennai, which was far from its best against Calicut, will have to look at plugging the gaps which were evident in its opening fixture. The team will look upto G.S. Akhin, Naveen Raja Jacob, Vibin George, Shelton Moses and the foreign imports Ruslans Sorokins and Rudy Verhoeff when it takes on Hyderabad on Thursday.

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Ahead of the match, Chennai Spartans' star blocker Akhin said, “Our first match didn’t go the way we planned it to be. We have gone back to the drawing board and we just have to ensure that we play a tight match.”

Hyderabad will look to build on its performance against Ahmedabad Defenders as the young team showed great serving and attacking ability.

Skipper Clark believes that the whole team is really pumped up and looking forward to the match against Chennai. “We had a good start against Ahmedabad, we have to keep the momentum going and take one match at a time,” said Clark.

The live broadcast of the match will start on SONY SIX and SONY TEN 3 and live streaming will be on SONY LIV from 6:50 PM on Thursday.

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