// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhy was the 2013 Indian Badminton League smash hit? It served well.

Tournament details
Dates	14 August – 31 August
Administrator(s)	Badminton Association of India
Format(s)	Round-robin and Knock-out
Host(s)	India
Venue(s)	6
Teams	6
Final positions
Champions	Hyderabad HotShots (1st title)
Runner-up	Awadhe Warriors
Third Place	Mumbai Marathas, Pune Pistons
Tournament summary
Matches played	16
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2013 Indian Badminton League was the first season of Indian Badminton League started from 14 August 2013.

Teams

Six teams participate in the first edition of Indian Badminton League:

Mumbai Marathas

• Lee Chong Wei (Captain)
• Pranav Chopra
• Siki Reddy
• Manu Attri
• P. C. Thulasi
• Sumeeth Reddy
• Rasika Raje
• Harsheel Dani
• Tine Baun
• Marc Zwiebler
• Vladimir Ivanov

Pune Pistons

• Ashwini Ponnappa (Captain)
• Saurabh Varma
• Anup Sridhar
• Sanave Thomas
• Arun Vishnu
• Rupesh Kumar K. T.
• Nguyen Tien Minh
• Juliane Schenk
• Joachim Fischer Nielsen
• Tan Wee Kiong

Banga Beats

• Parupalli Kashyap (Captain)
• Akshay Dewalkar
• Aparna Balan
• Arvind Bhat
• Aditya Prakash
• J. Meghana
• Daniel Farid
• Hu Yun
• Carsten Mogensen
• Tai Tzu-ying
• Carolina Marín

Hyderabad HotShots

• Saina Nehwal (Captain)
• Pradenya Gadre
• Tarun Kona
• Ajay Jayaram
• Kanthi Visalakshi P.
• Shubhankar Dey
• C. Rahul Yadav
• Taufik Hidayat
• Tanongsak
• Goh V Shem
• Lim Khim Wah

Delhi Smashers

• Jwala Gutta (Captain)
• H. S. Prannoy
• Sai Praneeth B.
• Arundhati Panthawane
• V. Diju
• Nichaon Jindapon
• Prajakta Sawant
• Tan Boon Heong
• Koo Kien Keat
• Wong Wing Ki

Awadhe Warriors

• P.V. Sindhu (Captain)
• Gurusai Datt
• K. Srikanth
• Ruthvika Shivani
• K. Maneesha
• Nanda Gopal
• Vinay Singh
• Sapsiree Taerattanachai
• Markis Kido
• Chong Wei Feng
• Mathias Boe

Venues

Six venues have been selected for the first edition of Indian Badminton League:

Lucknow Warriors

Mumbai Marathas

Banga Beats

Delhi Smashers

Pune Pistons

Hyderabad HotShots

Locations of IBL teams

Delhi	Lucknow	Hyderabad
Delhi Smashers	Awadhe Warriors	Hyderabad HotShots
DDA Badminton and Squash Stadium	Babu Banarasi Das Indoor Stadium	Gachibowli Indoor Stadium
Capacity: 5,000	Capacity: 5,000	Capacity: 4,000
Bangalore	Mumbai	Pune
Banga Beats	Mumbai Marathas	Pune Pistons
Kanteerava Indoor Stadium	Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Indoor Stadium, NSCI	Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex, Badminton Hall
Capacity: 4,000	Capacity: 5,000	Capacity: 3,800

Standings

Team	Pts	Pld	W	L	GW	GL
Hyderabad Hotshots	17	5	3	2	14	11
Awadhe Warriors	16	5	3	2	13	12
Pune Pistons	16	5	3	2	13	12
Mumbai Marathas	15	5	2	3	13	12
Delhi Smashers	13	5	2	3	11	14
Banga Beats	13	5	2	3	11	14

Schedule

The following is the schedule for 2013 Indian Badminton League.

League Matches

• (home team) represents designated home game for the club.

Delhi

14 August, 20:00	Delhi Smashers (home team)	2 – 3	Pune Pistons
15 August, 16:00	Hyderabad HotShots	3 – 2	Awadhe Warriors
15 August, 20:00	Banga Beats	2 – 3	Mumbai Marathas

Lucknow

17 August, 16:00	Delhi Smashers	3 – 2	Hyderabad HotShots
17 August, 20:00	Mumbai Marathas	2 – 3	Pune Pistons
18 August, 20:00	Awadhe Warriors (home team)	1 – 4	Banga Beats

Mumbai

19 August, 20:00	Hyderabad HotShots	4 – 1	Pune Pistons
20 August, 18:00	Mumbai Marathas (home team)	4 - 1	Delhi Smashers

Pune

22 August, 16:00	Hyderabad HotShots	3 – 2	Mumbai Masters
22 August, 20:00	Delhi Smashers	1 – 4	Awadhe Warriors
23 August, 18:00	Pune Pistons (home team)	4 – 1	Banga Beats

Bangalore

24 August, 20:00	Awadhe Warriors	3 – 2	Mumbai Masters
25 August, 18:00	Banga Beats (home team)	1 – 4	Delhi Smashers

Hyderabad

26 August, 20:00	Awadhe Warriors	3 – 2	Pune Pistons
27 August, 18:00	Hyderabad HotShots (home team)	2 – 3	Banga Beats

Knockout stage

	Semi-finals				Final
	28 August, 20:00 – Hyderabad
	Hyderabad HotShots	3
					31 August, 20:00 – Mumbai
	Pune Pistons	0
					Hyderabad HotShots	3
	29 August, 20:00 – Bangalore
					Awadhe Warriors	1
	Awadhe Warriors	3
	Mumbai Marathas	2