Badminton: India announces IPL-style league in 2013

The franchise-based badminton tournament will include top shuttlers from across the world.

Reuters November 11, 2012
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Badminton: India announces IPL-style league in 2013
MUMBAI: India will launch a franchise-based badminton tournament next year on the lines of cricket’s cash-rich Indian Premier League (IPL) with top shuttlers from across the world, said the organisers yesterday. “We accept that cricket’s IPL is a great success and we are hopeful that the IBL will have the same kind of path-breaking effect on badminton,” said Akhilesh Das Gupta, president of the governing body of the sport in the country.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 11th, 2012.
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