Bhopal Badshahs

Bhopal Badshahs (BB) was an Indian professional field hockey team from Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh that competed in the World Series Hockey championship. The captain of the team was Sameer Dad. Bhopal Badshahs was coached by Vasudevan Bhaskaran, who led the national hockey team to victory in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.^[1] Aishbagh Stadium was the home ground of Bhopal Badshahs.

Bhopal Badshahs

Full name	Bhopal Badshahs
Nickname(s)	Badshahs
Founded	2012
Dissolved	2013
Home ground	Aishbagh Stadium, Bhopal (Capacity 10,000)
Personnel
Captain	Sameer Dad
Coach	Vasudevan Bhaskaran
Owner	Dainik Bhaskar
Home Away

Sponsors and partners

Dainik Bhaskar was the global partner for Bhopal Badshahs.^[2][3]

Team composition

^[4][5]

Player	Nationality	Goals
Goalkeepers
Baljeet Singh	India	-
Harmanpreet Singh Jr.	India	-
Strikers
Armaan Qureshi	India
Ganendrajit Ningombam	India
Geowynne Kyle Gamiet	South Africa	1
Lalit Kumar Upadhyay	India	3
N. Senthil Kumar	India
Sameer Dad (captain)	India	4
Shivendra Singh	India
Tushar Khandekar	India
Affan Yousuf	India	5
Midfielders
Waseem Ahmad	Pakistan	4
Alfonso Pombo	Spain
Casey Henwood	New Zealand	3
A. B. Cheeyanna	India	1
Azam Baig	India
C. Alemada Bopaiah	India
David Seddon	England
Girish Ravaji Pimpale	India
Harmanpreet Singh Sr.	India
Karan Laxman Bhaskaran	India	7
Mohammad Sahir	India
Rajesh Kumar	India
Ranjit Singh	India
Sardara Singh	India
Defenders
Ajay Kumar	India
Andrew Eversden	England
Baljinder Singh	India
Cariappa A. D.	India
Ganendrajit Ningombam	India
Harbir Singh	India
Kangujam Suresh Singh	India
Mudassar Ali Khan	Pakistan	1
Raghunath V. R.	India
Shailendra Singh Bundela	India	3

Performance

Performance summary

Season	Matches	Won	Drawn	Lost	Win%
2012	14	5	2	7	41.67%

Performance details

Goals for	32 (2.29 per match)
Goals against	37 (2.64 per match)
Most goals	Karan Laxman Bhaskaran (7) Position: 10th

Performance by oppositions

Opposition	Matches	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Win%
Chandigarh Comets	2	1	1	0	8	7	100.00%
Chennai Cheetahs	2	1	0	1	4	5	50.00%
Delhi Wizards	2	1	0	1	3	4	50.00%
Karnataka Lions	2	1	0	1	5	6	50.00%
Mumbai Marines	2	1	0	1	2	2	50.00%
Pune Strykers	2	0	1	1	5	6	0.00%
Sher-e-Punjab	2	0	0	2	5	7	0.00%

Fixtures and results

2012

No.	Date	Score	Opponent	Venue	Report
1	29 February	4 - 3	Chandigarh Comets	Chandigarh	Match 1
2	2 March	0 - 1	Mumbai Marines	Mumbai	Match 5
3	5 March	3 - 1	Karnataka Lions	Bangalore	Match 11
4	7 March	1 - 1	Pune Strykers	Pune	Match 16
5	9 March	2 - 1	Delhi Wizards	Bhopal	Match 20
6	10 March	2 - 3	Sher-e-Punjab	Bhopal	Match 22
7	12 March	3 - 1	Chennai Cheetahs	Bhopal	Match 26
8	15 March	1 - 3	Delhi Wizards	Delhi	Match 30
9	17 March	3 - 4	Sher-e-Punjab	Jalandhar	Match 33
10	20 March	1 - 4	Chennai Cheetahs	Chennai	Match 38
11	24 March	4 - 4	Chandigarh Comets	Bhopal	Match 43
12	25 March	2 - 1	Mumbai Marines	Bhopal	Match 46
13	27 March	2 - 5	Karnataka Lions	Bhopal	Match 50
14	29 March	4 - 5	Pune Strykers	Bhopal	Match 54
Position in league phase: 7th Failed to qualify for semi-finals

References

1. "WSH: Bhopal Badshahs down Chandigarh Comets in opener". The Times of India. 23 January 2012. Retrieved 3 January 2012.
2. "Dainik Bhaskar to partner Bhopal Badshahs in WSH". dailybhaskar.com. 23 February 2012. Retrieved 23 February 2012.
3. "Dainik Bhaskar, World Series Hockey in strategic partnership". DNAIndia.com. 23 February 2012. Retrieved 23 February 2012.
4. "Star players unlikely to take part in World Series Hockey". NDTV. 28 February 2012. Archived from the original on 1 March 2012. Retrieved 3 June 2012.
5. "Bhopal Badshahs". World Series Hockey. 28 February 2012. Retrieved 28 February 2012.