2020 Premier Badminton League Explained

2020 Premier Badminton League
Sport:	Badminton
Location:	India
Teams:	7
Administrator:	Premier Badminton League
Champions:	Bengaluru Raptors
Runner-Up1:	Northeastern Warriors
Stat1 Label:	Top players
Stat1:	Tai Tzu-ying N. Sikki Reddy
Stat2 Label:	Emerging player
Stat2:	Priyanshu Rajawat
Previous:	2018–19
Next:	2024

2020 Premier Badminton League was the fifth edition of Premier Badminton League. It was played from 20 January to 9 February 2020. The season featured seven teams.^[1] The Chennai Smashers were renamed as Chennai Superstarz. Bengaluru Raptors beat Northeastern Warriors with a score of 4–2 in the finals to become champions. It was their second consecutive title in PBL.^[2]

Squads

Teams
Coach		Anup Sridhar	Arvind Bhat	Aravindan Samiappan	Rajendra Kumar Jakkampudi	Amrish Shinde		Mathias Boe
Squads	Domestic
				Gayathri Gopichand
				Sankar Muthusamy Subramanian
	Overseas

Points table

Rank	Team
1	Northeastern Warriors	30	13	11	5	1	22
2	Bengaluru Raptors (C)	30	13	11	5	1	22
3	Chennai Superstarz	30	10	14	6	0	22
4	Pune 7 Aces	30	14	10	4	2	20
5	Awadhe Warriors	30	11	13	3	3	14
6	Hyderabad Hunters	30	11	13	2	4	11
7	Mumbai Rockets	30	4	20	4	2	10

• Qualified for knockouts
• Five matches (MP) constitute one tie
• Each team will play six ties
• 1 point for each Regular Match Won (RMW)
• 0 points for Regular Matches Lost (RML)
• 2 points for each Trump Match Won (TMW)
• -1 point for each Trump Match Lost (TML)^[3]

Source: Official PBL website

Fixtures

All times are as Indian Standard Time (UTC+05:30).

League stage

	Date	Time	City	Home	Results	Away	Venue
1	20 January	19:00		Chennai Superstarz	5–2
2	21 January	19:00		Northeastern Warriors	4–3
3	22 January	19:00		Chennai Superstarz	4–3
4	23 January	19:00			3–4	Awadhe Warriors
5	24 January	19:00		Chennai Superstarz	4–3
6	25 January	19:00		Pune 7 Aces	5–2
7	26 January	19:00			1–2	Hyderabad Hunters
8	27 January	19:00		Pune 7 Aces	4–3
9	28 January	19:00		Awadhe Warriors	5–0
10	29 January	19:00		Hyderabad Hunters	2–1	Northeastern Warriors
11	30 January	15:30		Pune 7 Aces	5–2
12	30 January	19:00			2–5	Northeastern Warriors
13	31 January	19:00			0–3	Bengaluru Raptors
14	1 February	15:30			0–5	Northeastern Warriors
15	1 February	19:00			3–4	Chennai Superstarz
16	2 February	19:00		Hyderabad Hunters	4–3
17	3 February	19:00			1–4	Pune 7 Aces
18	4 February	15:30		Northeastern Warriors	4–3
19	4 February	19:00		Bengaluru Raptors	5–0
20	5 February	19:00			1–2	Pune 7 Aces
21	6 February	19:00		Bengaluru Raptors	5–0

Knockout stage

	Date	Time	City	Team 1	Results	Team 2	Venue
SF1	7 February	19:00		Chennai Superstarz	(-1)–3	Northeastern Warriors
SF2	8 February	19:00		Pune 7 Aces	3–4	Bengaluru Raptors
F	9 February	19:00		Northeastern Warriors	2–4	Bengaluru Raptors

Semifinal 1: Chennai Superstarz vs. Northeastern Warriors

7, 19 February:00 G. M. C. Balayogi SATS Indoor Stadium, Hyderabad
	Event	Team 1		Result			Team 2
		Chennai Superstarz		(-1)–3			Northeastern Warriors
1			B. Sumeeth Reddy Jessica Pugh	0	12–15 15–9 14–15	1	Lee Yong-dae Kim Ha-na
2				0	12–15 12–15	1	Lee Cheuk Yiu
3			B. Sumeeth Reddy Dhruv Kapila	-1	13–15 15–14 10–15	1	Krishna Prasad Garaga Bodin Isara
4					–		Michelle Li
5			Lakshya Sen		–		Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk

Semifinal 2: Pune 7 Aces vs. Bengaluru Raptors

8, 19 February:00 G. M. C. Balayogi SATS Indoor Stadium, Hyderabad
	Event	Team 1		Result			Team 2
		Pune 7 Aces		3–4			Bengaluru Raptors
1			Chirag Shetty Hendra Setiawan	2	15–12 15–10	0	Arun George Rian Agung Saputro
2			Mithun Manjunath	0	14–15 15–9 6–15	1	Brice Leverdez
3			Kazumasa Sakai	1	15–11 15–13	0	B. Sai Praneeth
4			Rituparna Das	0	12–15 12–15	2	Tai Tzu-ying
5				0	13–15 10–15	1	Chan Peng Soon Eom Hye-won

Final: Northeastern Warriors vs. Bengaluru Raptors

9, 19 February:00 G. M. C. Balayogi SATS Indoor Stadium, Hyderabad
	Event	Team 1		Result			Team 2
		Northeastern Warriors		2–4			Bengaluru Raptors
1			Lee Cheuk Yiu	0	15–14 9–15 3–15	1	B. Sai Praneeth
2			Bodin Isara Lee Yong-dae	2	15–11 13–15 15–14	0	Arun George Rian Agung Saputro
3			Michelle Li	0	9–15 12–15	1	Tai Tzu-ying
4			Krishna Prasad Garaga Kim Ha-na	0	14–15 15–14 12–15	2	Chan Peng Soon Eom Hye-won
5			Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk		–		Brice Leverdez

End-of-season awards

Player	Team	Award	Value
Tai Tzu-ying	Bengaluru Raptors	Player of the League
N. Sikki Reddy	Hyderabad Hunters	Indian Player of the League
Priyanshu Rajawat	Hyderabad Hunters	Emerging Player of the League

Notes and References

1. News: PBL 2020: Reigning world champion PV Sindhu, World No 2 Tai Tzu Ying to headline fifth edition of Premier Badminton League. Firstpost. PTI. 18 January 2020. 2022-07-26.
2. Web site: PBL FINAL, As it Happened: Bengaluru Raptors beats North Eastern Warriors 4-2. Sportstar. Team. Sportstar. 9 February 2020 . en. 2020-02-10.
3. Web site: Rules and Regulations. PBL. 23 December 2018.