{"id":1775,"date":"2012-11-07T14:30:55","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T09:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/?p=1775"},"modified":"2012-11-07T14:30:55","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T09:00:55","slug":"indian-badminton-league-to-inaugurate-on-november-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/indian-badminton-league-to-inaugurate-on-november-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Badminton League to inaugurate on November 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/badminton-getty-630-802332.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/badminton-getty-630-802332.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"badminton-getty-630-802332\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1776\" \/><\/a>The much-talked about Indian Badminton League (IBL), which is being promised as the vehicle to bring in big money to the nation&#8217;s shuttlers, will be launched on November 10 in presence of London Olympics bronze medallist Saina Nehwal.<\/p>\n<p>The launch would be done at a Bandra hotel in the presence of Saina, national coach P Gopichand, other Indian badminton team members and Badminton Association of India (BAI) president Dr Akhilesh Das Gupta, it was learnt.<\/p>\n<p>The League, that is to involve city-based franchise teams similar to cricket&#8217;s cash-rich Indian Premier League, vouches a total of $1 million as the prize money on offer, the &#8220;highest prize money in badminton anywhere in the world,&#8221; according to information put up on Sporty Solutionz Pvt Ltd&#8217;s website &#8212; the commercial partner of the BAI.<\/p>\n<p>A quarterfinalist in the event, featuring both Indian and foreign players, would be richer by anywhere between Rs 2.5 to 3 lakh, as per the website.<\/p>\n<p>The IBL&#8217;s governing council, chaired by Dr Gupta, also includes Gopi and former internationals Pradeep Gandhe and Vimal Kumar as its members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The much-talked about Indian Badminton League (IBL), which is being promised as the vehicle to bring in big money to the nation&#8217;s shuttlers, will be launched on November 10 in&nbsp;[ &hellip; ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,787],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-franchise-news","category-news","list-style-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}