Deepak Niwas Hooda and GB More started the raid for their teams and scored a point. First 6 minutes it was battle of equals, in the 7th minute Ajinkya scored a point in a do-or-die raid to take one point slender lead.

Dabang Delhi attack and defense was on fire on the first day of their homeleg and Anup was sent on the bench in his first raid, while Meraj Sheykh scored 2 points in his first raid.