Indian Badminton player G. Vrushali has said that she feels lucky to be in the same team as Saina Nehwal and is looking forward to pick up some useful tips from the World number two in the upcoming edition of Premier Badminton League (PBL). While the games in PBL would be a race to 15 points, new rules like a “trump match’ – which gives bonus point for victory and a negative point for loss – have been introduced to add spice to contest”.
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“It’s a great addition to the league to ensure that the excitement remains till the end of the tie”, said Gopichand at the unveiling ceremony of the logo and team colours of the city’s PBL franchise, Mumbai Rockets, here.
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There was heart-breaking news for Saina Nehwal fans as India’s No. 1 shuttler withdrew herself from the first encounter of the tourney between Mumbai Rockets and Awadhe Warriors at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Indoor Stadium, NSCI on Saturday. Two teams can nominate the same match as trump match. “Even a 3-0 lead is not sufficient to win as you can still lose the tie due to the Trump point”. Also as this is the Olympic year so I didn’t want to take a risk by playing and aggravating the injury.
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Speaking on their association, Salim and Sulaiman said “We are happy to get associated with the League and the entire idea behind the song is to set off the players as well as the fans to “Halla Macha De”. Besides Mumbai, other five franchisee participating are Delhi Acers, Hyderabad Hunters, Bengaluru Top Guns, Chennai Smashers, and Lucknow-based Awadhe Warriors.
“With the presence of Tanongsak (Saensomboonsuk) of Thailand, Christinna Pedersen of Denmark and Sai Praneeth, our team is one of the contenders of the PBL 2016 title”. We have Jwala Gutta in our team her experience will help all.
Malaysian star Lee Chong Wei said his team Hyderabad Hunters had quality players to make the best out of the Trump matches. A team can not put the same player in the trump matches proposed by them more than twice in the league stage and once in the knockout stage.
“Our team has match-winning players and the team combination of each tie will be around these players”.
“We have to see which team performs well on the given day”.
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This season the format has been tweaked with the introduction of the “trump match”.
