Hyderabad, Oct. 12 -- Despite playing catch-up for most of the match, Mighty Marathas came from behind and scripted a thrilling shootoff win against in-form Chero Archers in the Archery Premier League Season 2 here on Monday.

Aman Saini and Dhiraj Bommadevara nailed their arrows into the yellow ring in APL's signature hit-or-miss shootoff. For Chero, compound world No 1 Mathias Fullerton scored a hit in the shootoff but the other three archers registered misses as Marathas won 2-1 in the tiebreaker after a 4-4 draw in regulation time.

Chero, who have now lost two matches in tiebreakers this season, actually started the match strongly to take the first set. But in what turned out to be a really high quality display of archery, the second a...