Indian Badminton League (IBL) is a franchise-based city teams tournament which is worth $1 million. This is the richest badminton league in the world. Six teams will be seen in action from August 14 to 31, 2013. This year's is the inaugural edition of IBL. Krrish Delhi Smashers, Lucknow Warriors, Mumbai Masters, Banga Beats, Pune Pistons and Hyderabad Hotshots are the teams.
Also read: Banga Beats; Mumbai Masters; Hyderabad Hotshots; Lucknow Warriors; Krrish Delhi Smashers
The six franchises had a purse of $275,000 to buy 10 players, four foreign, six Indian and one junior in the players auction which was held a few days back in Delhi.
Here, get to know about Pune franchise - Pune Pistons.
Team - Pune Pistons
Owners: Burman family
Host Association: Pune District & Metropolitan Badminton Association
Host Stadium: Shri Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex, Badminton Hall, Balewadi
Costliest player: Juliane Schenk (Germany) $90,000
List of players bought in the auction
Juliane Schenk (Germany) $90,000
Ashwini Ponappa (India) $25,000
Tien Minh Nguyen (Vietnam) $44,000
Wee Kiong Tan (Malaysia) $15,000
Joachiam Fischer Nielsen (Denmark) $35,000
Saurabh Verma (India) $20,000
Anup Sridhar (India) $6,000
Sanave Thomas (India) $5,000
Arun Vishnu (India) $26,000
Rupesh Kumar (India) $5,000
Pune Pistons schedule
Vs Lucknow Warriors - August 26
Vs Hyderabad Hotshots - August 19
Vs Mumbai Masters - August 17
Vs Banga Beats - August 23
Vs Krrish Delhi Smashers - August 15
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