Mumbai Masters

Mumbai Masters

Sport	Badminton
Founded	2013
Based in	Mumbai, India
Home ground	National Sports Club of India
Owner(s)	Sunil Gavaskar Akkineni Nagarjuna V. Chamundeswaranath
Head coach	Aparna Popat
Captain	Lee Chong Wei
IBL wins	none

Mumbai Masters is a badminton team owned by Sunil Gavaskar, Akkineni Nagarjuna, and V. Chamundeswaranath for the Indian Badminton League. The team's home ground is National Sports Club of India in Mumbai. The team is captained by two-time Olympic silver medallist and World Number 1, Lee Chong Wei from Malaysia.^[1] Lee was the highest paid player in the tournament with a bid of 135,000 US Dollars by Mumbai Masters during the auction.

• Pranav Chopra
• Tine Baun
• Marc Zwiebler
• Vladimir Ivanov
• Siki Reddy
• Manu Attri
• P. C. Thulasi
• Sumeet Reddy
• Rasika Raje
• Harsheel Dani^[2]

2013 season

The following are the fixtures for Mumbai Masters in the 2013 Indian Badminton League.^[3]

15 August, 20:00, Delhi	Banga Beats	2 - 3	Mumbai Masters
17 August, 20:00, Lucknow	Mumbai Masters	2 - 3	Pune Pistons
20 August, 18:00, Mumbai	Mumbai Masters	4 - 1	Delhi Smashers
22 August, 16:00, Pune	Hyderabad HotShots	3 - 2	Mumbai Masters
24 August, 20:00, Bangalore	Awadhe Warriors	3 - 2	Mumbai Masters

Semi final

Mumbai Masters qualified for the semi-finals of the Indian Badminton League 2013, after finishing 4th in the league table with 15 points. The semi final was against Awadhe Warriors.

29 August, 20:00, Bangalore

Mumbai Masters

2 - 3

Awadhe Warriors

Mumbai Masters were defeated in semi final and finished 3rd in the tournament alongside Pune Pistons.

References

1. "Mumbai Masters on IBL site". http://www.indianbadmintonleague.co. Indian Badminton League. Retrieved 2 August 2013. External link in |website= (help)
2. "IBL announces 11th players of five teams". http://www.indianbadmintonleague.co. Indian Badminton League. Retrieved 2 August 2013. External link in |website= (help)
3. IBL Schedule