Third edition of Bengal Premier League begins today
The third edition of Bengal Premier League began today with
eight teams in the contest. The league is being organized by
West Bengal Billiards Association in association with Silver
Spring Club, Kolkata. During the opening ceremony, the
Director of Space Groups, Mr. Piyush Bhagat announced the
league open for next six days with the final on 18th July
2018.
Top cueists from the nation are taking part in this league,
which includes Former Asian champion Aditya Mehta, who has
taken a break from professional circuit, is leading the team
Black Panthers. Other top cueists participating are former
Asian & Billiards Champion Alok Kumar, Current World 6Reds
No.2 Kamal Chawla, National Champion Sumit Talwar, Current
World Team Cup champion Manan Chandra and the former World
team snooker bronze medalist Brijesh Damani. This year two top
women cueists of the country, Vidya Pillai (former World No.2)
and current Asian Women Snooker champion Amee Kamani are also
participating in the league.
Today two matches were played and won by Cue Magicians and
Snookin Shooters. Cue Magicians defeated City Knights 4-3, and
the Snookin Snooters won against Black Panthers. Cue Magicians
had won their first four frames to confirm their victory but
after that gave away three frames to settle on 4-3 score.
Snookin Shooters also won their match by same score-line 4-3
against Black Panthers. The match was quite interesting where
Aditya Mehta won his both initial frames but his team couldn’t
perform well and they lost the match 4-3. Towards the end,
Aditya also lost the doubles frame with his partner Siddharth
Parikh.
TEAMS Introduction
The Rockets
Sumit Talwar; Laxman Rawat; Mudit Poddar, Neeraj Khemka;
Abhishek Kedia; Rishabh Dugar
Cue Magicians
Manan Chandra, Manish Jain, Aamer Hussein, Vidya Pillai,
Arafat Mondal, Kingshuk Saha
Black Panthers
Aditya Mehta, Siddharth Parikh, Rajesh Tulsian, Rohit
Malhotra, Vikrant Gupta, Piyush Bhagat
Green Warrior
Alok Kumar, Sundeep Gulati, Rahul Berlia, Ankit Kariwala,
Terence Mac, Pradyumna Mimani
Shooting Stars
Faisal Khan, Akshay Kumar, Arshad Zama, Shakil Ahmed,
Chetan Mehta, Sunil Saraogi
Snookin Shooters
Shahbaaz Adil Khan, Himanshu Jain, S.K. Sarfarazuddin,
Amee Kamani, Saif Khan, Tanveer Dhawan, Manoj Agarwal
City Knights
Brijesh Damani, Malkeet Singh, Shyam Jagtiani, Wangchuk
Bhutia, Dhruv Agarwal, Ravi Goenka
Dream Chasers
Kamal Chawla, Divya Sharma, Shoaib Khan, Siddharth Casyab,
Bhavin Shah, Shreevardhan Poddar, Debu Mukherjee
RESULTS
Cue Magicians
Snookin Shooters
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