2017 Premier Badminton League

2017 Premier Badminton LeagueTournament details

Dates| 1 Jan 2017 – 14 Jan 2017
Edition| 2
Location| India
Official website| www.pbl-india.com
Results
Champions| Chennai Smashers
Runners-up| Mumbai Rockets
Semi-finalists| Awadhe Warriors, Hyderabad Hunters
| ← 2016 | 2017-18 →

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2017 Premier Badminton League (also known as Vodafone PBL 2017 for sponsorship reasons) was the second edition of Premier Badminton League.[1] It started on 1 January 2017 and concluded on 14 January 2017. It consisted of 15 league ties (each tie consisting of 5 matches) and the top four teams progressed to the knock out stages. Sachin Tendulkar became a co-owner of Bengaluru Topguns before the season and they were renamed as Bengaluru Blasters.[2]
Awadhe Warriors, Mumbai Rockets, Chennai Smashers and Hyderabad Hunters entered the semi-finals after topping the league table. Chennai Smashers beat Awadhe Warriors 4-1 and Mumbai Rockets beat Hyderabad Hunters 3-(-1) to proceed to the final. Chennai Smashers won the tournament after beating Mumbai Rockets 4-3.

## Squads[edit]

The complete list of players of all the six participating teams[3]

Delhi Acers  | Awadhe Warriors  | Mumbai Rockets  | Hyderabad Hunters  | Bengaluru Blasters  | Chennai Smashers

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Jan Ø. Jørgensen | Srikanth Kidambi | Ajay Jayaram | B. Sai Praneeth | Viktor Axelsen | P. V. Sindhu
Siril Verma | Wong Wing Ki | Prannoy Kumar | Sameer Verma | Sourabh Varma | Arundhati Pantawane
Son Wan-ho | Saina Nehwal | Shreyansh Jaiswal | Rajiv Ouseph | Boonsak Ponsana | Parupalli Kashyap
Aakarshi Kashyap | Rituparna Das | Sung Ji-hyun | Carolina Marín | Gadde Ruthvika Shivani | Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk
Nichaon Jindapon | Bodin Issara | Vrushali Gummadi | Sri Krishna Priya | Cheung Ngan Yi | Tommy Sugiarto
Akshay Dewalkar | Goh V Shem | Nipitphon Puangpuapech | Satwiksairaj Rankireddy | N. Sikki Reddy | Gabby Adcock
Ivan Sozonov | Markis Kido | Mohita Sahdev | Tan Boon Heong | Ashwini Ponnappa | Ramya Tulasi
Vladimir Ivanov | Prajakta Sawant | Nadieżda Zięba | Tan Wee Kiong | Pranav Chopra | B. Sumeeth Reddy
Jwala Gutta | Savitree Amitrapai | Chirag Shetty | Chau Hoi Wah | Ko Sung-hyun | Chris Adcock
K. Maneesha | Aditya Joshi | Lee Yong-dae | Meghana Jakkampudi | Yoo Yeon-seong | Mads Pieler Kolding
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## Points Table[edit]

Team  | TP | RMW | TMW | TML | Pts.

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Awadhe Warriors  | 5  | 11  | 5  | 0  | 21
Mumbai Rockets (RU) | 5  | 12  | 4  | 1  | 19
Chennai Smashers (C) | 5  | 8  | 5  | 0  | 18
Hyderabad Hunters  | 5  | 10  | 3  | 2  | 14
Bengaluru Blasters  | 5  | 7  | 3  | 2  | 11
Delhi Acers  | 5  | 4  | 3  | 2  | 8

Qualified for semifinals

* Each tie (TP) will have five matches each.
* Regular Match Win (RMW) = 1 point
* Trump Match Win (TMW) = 2 points
* Trump Match Lost (TML) = -1 point.[4]

## Fixtures[edit]

The fixtures for the 2017 Premier Badminton League are as follows[5]

Date | Venue | Team 1  | Result  | Team 2

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League Stage
1 Jan | Hyderabad | Hyderabad Hunters | 4-3[6] | Chennai Smashers
Bengaluru Blasters | 4-3[7] | Delhi Acers
2 Jan  | Hyderabad Hunters | 0-5[8] | Awadhe Warriors
3 Jan | Mumbai | Bengaluru Blasters | 0-5[9] | Chennai Smashers
Delhi Acers | (-1)-6[10] | Mumbai Rockets
4 Jan  | Hyderabad Hunters | 1-2[11] | Mumbai Rockets
5 Jan | Lucknow | Awadhe Warriors | 6-(-1)[12] | Delhi Acers
6 Jan  | Awadhe Warriors | 3-4[13] | Mumbai Rockets
7 Jan | Bangalore | Bengaluru Blasters | 3-4[14] | Hyderabad Hunters
8 Jan  | Delhi Acers | 5-2[15] | Chennai Smashers
Bengaluru Blasters | 1-4[16] | Mumbai Rockets
9 Jan  | Bengaluru Blasters | 3-4[17] | Awadhe Warriors
10 Jan  | Mumbai Rockets | 3-4  | Chennai Smashers
11 Jan  | Awadhe Warriors | 3-4  | Chennai Smashers
12 Jan  | New Delhi | Delhi Acers | 2-5[18] | Hyderabad Hunters
Semi-finals
13 Jan  | New Delhi | Awadhe Warriors | 1-4  | Chennai Smashers
Mumbai Rockets | 3-(-1)  | Hyderabad Hunters
Finals
14 Jan  | New Delhi | Chennai Smashers | 4-3  | Mumbai Rockets

### Knockout stage[edit]

| Semi-finals| | Final

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| 13 January – New Delhi| |

| Awadhe Warriors| 1

| 14 January – New Delhi

| Chennai Smashers| 4|

| Chennai Smashers| 4

| 13 January – New Delhi

| | Mumbai Rockets| 3

| Mumbai Rockets| 3

| Hyderabad Hunters| -1 |

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Official website". Retrieved 1 January 2017.
2. ^ "Sachin picks up stake in Bengaluru Blasters". Retrieved 1 January 2017.
3. ^ "Squads". NDTV. Retrieved 31 December 2016.
4. ^ "Premier Badminton League 2017, The Highest Prize Money Tournament in World". Archived from the original on 3 January 2017. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
5. ^ "Premier Badminton League 2017, The Highest Prize Money Tournament in World". Archived from the original on 2 January 2017. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
6. ^ "Hyderabad Hunters vs Chennai Smashers Badminton Livescore and commentary, PBL 2017". Retrieved 3 January 2017.
7. ^ "Bengaluru Blasters vs Delhi Acers Badminton Live score and commentary, PBL 2017". Retrieved 3 January 2017.
8. ^ "Hyderabad Hunters vs Awadhe Warriors Badminton Livescore and commentary, PBL 2017". Retrieved 3 January 2017.
9. ^ "Chennai Smashers vs Bengaluru Blasters Badminton Livescore and commentary, PBL 2017". Retrieved 3 January 2017.
10. ^ "Delhi Acers vs Mumbai Rockets". Retrieved 3 January 2017.
11. ^ "Hyderabad Hunters vs Mumbai Rockets". Retrieved 4 January 2017.
12. ^ "Awadhe Warriors vs Delhi Acers". Retrieved 5 January 2017.
13. ^ "Awadhe Warriors vs Mumbai Rockets". Retrieved 6 January 2017.
14. ^ "Bengaluru Blasters vs Hyderabad Hunters". Retrieved 7 January 2017.
15. ^ "Delhi Acers vs Chennai Smashers". Retrieved 8 January 2017.
16. ^ "Bengaluru Blasters vs Mumbai Rockets". Retrieved 9 January 2017.
17. ^ "Bengaluru Blasters vs Awadhe Warriors". Retrieved 9 January 2017.
18. ^ "Delhi Acers vs Chennai Smashers". sportskeeda.com. Retrieved 12 January 2017.

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Premier Badminton League

Seasons|

* 2016
* 2017
* 2017–18
* 2018–19
* 2020

Participating teams|

* Awadhe Warriors
* Bengaluru Raptors
* Chennai Superstarz
* Hyderabad Hunters
* Mumbai Rockets
* Northeastern Warriors
* Pune 7 Aces

Defunct teams|

* Ahmedabad Smash Masters
* Delhi Dashers

Venues|

* Ahmedabad
* Bangalore
* Bangalore
* Chennai
* Delhi
* Guwahati
* Hyderabad
* Lucknow
* Mumbai
* Pune

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*[RMW]: Regular Matches Won
*[TMW]: Trump Matches Won
*[TML]: Trump Matches Lost
*[Pts.]: Points
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