Awadhe Warriors

Awadhe Warriors

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Sport	Badminton
Founded	2013 (2013)
League	Premier Badminton League
Based in	Lucknow, India
Home ground	Babu Banarasi Das Indoor Stadium
Owner	Sahara Adventure Sports Limited
Head coach	Anup Sridhar
PBL wins	none
Website	www.awadhewarriors.in

Awadhe Warriors is a badminton team owned by Sahara Adventure Sports Limited a group company of Sahara India for the Premier Badminton League (PBL). The team's home ground is Babu Banarasi Das Indoor Stadium, Lucknow. The team is coached by Anup Sridhar.

Awadhe Warriors has La Martiniere Boys' College, Luckow, as its school partner.

Current squad

The squad for 2020 PBL season is:

Indian players

• Ajay Jayaram
• Subhankar Dey
• Tanvi Lad

Overseas players

• Christinna Pedersen
• Wong Wing Ki
• Ko Sung-hyun
• Shin Baek-cheol
• Beiwen Zhang

2013 Season Squad

Indian players

• P.V. Sindhu (Captain)
• Gurusai Datt
• Kidambi Srikanth
• Ruthvika Shivani
• K. Maneesha
• Nanda Gopal
• Vinay Singh

Foreign players

• Sapsiree Taerattanachai
• Markis Kido
• Chong Wei Feng
• Mathias Boe

2013 season

Main article: 2013 Indian Badminton League

League matches

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

Semi final

29 August, 20:00 at Bangalore

Awadhe Warriors

3 - 2

Mumbai Masters

Final

31 August, 20:00 at Mumbai

Awadhe Warriors

1 - 3

Hyderabad HotShots

• Kidambi Srikanth (AW) beat S. Tanongsak (HH) by 21-12, 21-20.
• Saina Nehwal (HH) beat P. V. Sindhu (AW) by 21-15, 21-7.
• Goh V. Shem & Lim Khim Wah (HH) beat Markis Kido & Mathias Boe (AW) by 21-14, 13-21, 11-4.
• Ajay Jayaram (HH) beat Gurusai Datt (AW) by 10-21, 21-17, 11-7.

2016 Season Squad

Team coach for season 2016

• Anup Sridhar

Indian players

• Saina Nehwal (Captain)
• Sai Praneeth
• Sourabh Verma
• Vrushali Gummadi
• K. Maneesha

Foreign players

• Cai Yun
• Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk
• Christinna Pedersen
• Hendra Gunawan
• Bodin Issara

2016 season

Main article: 2016 Premier Badminton League

2017 Season Squad

Team coach for season 2017

• Anup Sridhar

Indian players

• Saina Nehwal (Captain)
• Srikanth Kidambi
• Rituparna Das
• Prajakta Sawant
• Aditya Joshi

Foreign players

• Wong Wing Ki
• Bodin Issara
• Goh V Shem
• Markis Kido
• Savitree Amitrapai

2017-18 Season Squad

Team coach for season 2017-18

• Anup Sridhar

Indian players

• Saina Nehwal (Captain)
• Sai Uttejitha Rao
• Parupalli Kashyap
• Mahima Aggarwal
• Kidambi Srikanth
• Hendra Setiawan
• Harshit Aggarwal

Foreign players

• Christinna Pedersen
• Or Chin Chung
• Tang Chun Man

2018-19 Season Squad

Team coach for season 2018-19

• Anup Sridhar
• Arun Vishnu (Doubles)

Technical Advisory

• Uttsav Mishra

Indian players

• Ashwini Ponnappa (Captain)
• Sanyogita Ghorpade
• Gurusai Dutt
• Rasika Raje
• Arjun M.R.

Foreign players

• Son Wan-ho (Icon and captain)
• Mathias Christiansen
• Lee Yang
• Zhang Beiwen
• Lee Dong-keun