With M Ashwin Raj and Jerome Vinith leading the scoring charts, the Calicut Heroes beat the Hyderabad Black Hawks 15-14, 15-12, 15-11, 4-15, 15-14. Ashwin was named the Player of the Match.
With two consecutive supreme performances, the defending Champions Kolkata Thunderbolts have already been pegged to be the favourites this year and are currently placed at the top of the table.
The Mumbai Meteors will be riding high following a dominating performance against the Chennai Blitz. The Bengaluru Torpedoes are yet to capitalise on the home turf advantage. They have lost both their previous encounters against the Kolkata Thunderbolts and the Ahmedabad Defenders.
Hyderabad Black Hawks were outplayed by the defending champions Kolkata Thunderbolts in their second encounter, as they lost the game 1-4. Calicut Heroes lost to Mumbai Meteors in their first match.
Chennai Blitz secured two points in their season opener against Kochi Blue Spikers in a match that went down to the final set. The clash against Mumbai is their last game in Bengaluru and they will be keen to complete the leg undefeated.
Mumbai Meteors and Calicut Heroes match is expected to be a thrilling encounter between two evenly matched teams, with the captains eager to get the season off to a winning start. The presence of fans in the stadium after last season's absence due to the pandemic will add to the atmosphere a
All eight franchises - Calicut Heroes, Kochi Blue Spikers, Ahmedabad Defenders, Hyderabad Black Hawks, Chennai Blitz, Bengaluru Torpedoes, Mumbai Meteors, and Kolkata Thunderbolts - will play a round-robin before the top four teams in the league stage qualify for the semi-finals.
Researchers have helped discover the largest fresh meteorite impact craters on Mars since NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter began scouring the planet for them 16 years ago, one of which contained ice at the lowest altitude ever observed.
Washington [US], October 20 (ANI): With DART, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, NASA successfully flew a spacecraft directly at the centre of a close asteroid in late September. The stadium-sized space rock was struck by the one-way kamikaze mission, which successfully reset the asteroid