Bengal Premier League returns with 10 teams this year
MANAN,
BRIJESH HAD HIGHEST BIDDING IN CATEGORY A; LUCKY VATNANI WAS HIGHEST PAID
IN CATEGORY B MARQUEE
The
2nd edition of Bengal Premier League today invited all team owners
for the auction
of players at The Saturday Club, Kolkata. The league
is schedule to start from 20th till 26th June
2016.
This year total 10 teams
of 6 players each will be contest for the coveted
trophy. This year the major change is to have two marquee players in
each team instead of one as was in last year.
In
Category A Marquee players, former World No.3 Manan Chandra and
Current World Team Snooker Bronze medallist Brijesh Damani City
were
purchased by City Knights and Cue Magicians
at the highest bidding i.e. Rs.40000/-
each. However, in Category B marquee players,
Lucky Vatnani of Telangana remained the highest bid player and went
to The Rockets at Rs.33000/-.
The team formation after
the auction is as below:
Pappu Penguins:
Dharminder Lilly (Marquee
A); Digvijay Kadian (Marquee B); Shoaib Khan,
Siddharth Casyab, Manas Swaika,
Dhruv Agarwal
Alpha Cueists:
Faisal Khan (Marquee A);
Pushpender Singh (Marquee B); Akram Khan, Dheerendra
Baid, Vikrant Gupta, Wangchuk Bhutia
Green Warriors:
Sundeep Gulati (MarqueeA);
Nitesh Madaan (Marquee B); Aamer Hussain, Pradyumna
Mimani, Rahul Berlia, Vishal Sahay
The Rockets:
Shahbaaz Khan (Marquee A);
Lucky Vatnani (Marquee B); Mudit Poddar, Rishabh
Dugar, Shyam Jagtiani, Terence Mack
City Knights:
Manan Chandra (Marquee A);
Himanshu Jain (Marquee B);
Rajesh Tulsian, Ravi Goenka, Rohan Gandhi, Neeraj
Sharma
Cue Magician:
Brijesh Damani (Marquee
A); Anuj Uppal (Marquee B); Arshad Zama,
Kingshuk Saha, Shakil Ahmed, Aayush Namchu
Black Panthers:
Alok Kumar (Marquee
A); Siddharth Parikh (Marquee B); Abdul Miraz,
Piyush Bhagat, Rohit Malhotra, Sagar Malhotra
Snooking Shooters:
Kamal Chawla (Marquee
A); Panduranga (Marquee B); Sarfarazuddin,
Nilangshu Haldar, Neeraj Khemka, Shreevardhan Poddar
Shooting Stars:
Laxman Rawat (Marquee
A); Malkeet Singh (Marquee B);
Ankit Kariwala, Sunil Saraogi,
Gautam Khanwani, Chetan Mehta
RKG Snooker Champs:
Sourav Kothari (Marquee
A); Manish Jain (Marquee B);
Benay Agarwala, Saif Khan,
Abhishek Kedia, Anil Poddar
Kolkata
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03 May
2017
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