Pune Pistons

Pune Pistons was a badminton franchise owned by Mohit Burman (Dabur Group) & Savan Daru for the Indian Badminton League. The team's home ground was the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex in Pune. The team was captained by Ashwini Ponnappa.[1] The team participated in the league only in the inaugural season.

Pune Pistons
SportBadminton
Founded2013 (2013)
Folded2013 (2013)
Based inPune, India
Home groundShree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex, Pune
Owner
Head coachNikhil Kanetkar
CaptainAshwini Ponnappa
IBL winsnone
Websitewww.punepistons.com

Current squad[2]

Country Player
 India Ashwini Ponnappa
 Vietnam Nguyen Tien Minh
 India Sourabh Verma
 India Anup Sridhar
 Germany Juliane Schenk
 Denmark Joachim Fischer Nielsen
 India Sanave Thomas
 India Arun Vishnu
 Malaysia Tan Wee Kiong
 India Rupesh Kumar K. T.

2013 season

League stage

14 August, 20:00 at Delhi Delhi Smashers 2 - 3 Pune Pistons
17 August, 20:00 at Lucknow Mumbai Masters 2 - 3 Pune Pistons
19 August, 20:00 at Mumbai Hyderabad HotShots 4 - 1 Pune Pistons
23 August, 18:00 at Pune Banga Beats 1 - 4 Pune Pistons
26 August, 20:00 at Hyderabad Awadhe Warriors 3 - 2 Pune Pistons

Pune Pistons finished the 3rd in the group stage, qualifying for the semi final.

Team Pts Pld W L GW GL
Hyderabad HotShots 175321411
Awadhe Warriors 165321312
Pune Pistons 165321312
Mumbai Masters 155231312
Delhi Smashers 135231114
Banga Beats 135231114

Semi-final

Pune Pistons were beaten by Hyderabad HotShots in semi final of Indian Badminton League.[3]

28 August, 20:00 at Hyderabad Pune Pistons 0 - 3 Hyderabad HotShots
  • Ajay Jayaram (HH) beat Tien Minh Nyugen (PP), 21 - 17, 21 – 11.
  • Saina Nehwal (HH) beat Juliane Schenk (PP), 21 – 10, 19 – 21, 11 – 8.
  • Goh V Shem and Lim Khim Wah (HH) beat Joachim Fischer Nielsen and Sanave Thomas (PP), 16 – 21, 21 -14, 11 – 7.

References

  1. "Pune Pistons". IBL. Archived from the original on 8 December 2013. Retrieved 8 August 2013.
  2. "Pune Pistons". TOI. 5 August 2013. Retrieved 8 August 2013.
  3. "Match Report of First Semi Final of IBL". 28 August 2013. Archived from the original on 7 December 2013. Retrieved 28 August 2013.
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