Hyderabad Black Hawks came from behind to beat Bengaluru Torpedoes by 3-2 (15-13, 14-15, 9-15, 15-10, 15-12) at the Gachibowli Indoor Stadium in Hyderabad on Tuesday to wrap up the second leg of India’s RuPay Prime Volleyball League powered by A23 regular season. Guru Prashanth was named Player of the match.

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With Trent O'Dea leading defence, Hyderabad began strongly. As he kept blocking Tsvetelin Tsvetanov, skipper Pankaj Sharma and Ibin Jose took Bengaluru's attacking responsibilities and made important spikes from zone four. When Lal Sujan started setting up Hyderabad attackers for spikes, the topsy-turvy contest turned even more unpredictable.

Sujan started running the show from the middle and started involving his captain Guru Prashanth in attacks as Hyderabad took control. Sethu TR's serves kept rattling Hyderabad and Bengaluru found an opening. With Jose's attacks, Bengaluru levelled the playing field.

Guru started testing Bengaluru's defence with hard spikes. As Tsvetanov struggled to create an impact, Ibin's responsibilities increased. As Mujeeb MC made his presence felt from the service line, and Alireza Abalooch began making spikes, the tables turned and Torpedoes took charge.

Changing strategies, Hyderabad sent Carlos Llanos in the middle to add an additional attacker in the mix, taking the pressure off Guru. With unforced errors on consecutive super points, Bengaluru opened the door for Hyderabad to get back into the match again.

Tsvetanov came to the party in the do-or-die final set and started testing Bengaluru's defence from zone four. As the nervy thriller went right down to the wire, Guru kept Black Hawks in the hunt and John Joseph closed out the match with powerful blocks as Hyderabad won the five-set thriller.

The third and final leg of the Prime Volleyball League regular season, set to take place at the Regional Sports Centre (Rajiv Gandhi Indoor Stadium) in Kochi, offers eight matches on the programme from Friday, February 24, through Thursday, March 2.

The RuPay Prime Volleyball League powered by A23 is telecast live on Sony Sports Ten 1 (English), Sony Sports Ten 3 (Hindi), Sony Sports Ten 4 (Tamil and Telugu) and Sony Sports Ten 2 (Malayalam) channels in India and is streamed on **VBTV** outside the Indian subcontinent.

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