the CUE SLAM league

While having 2.5 million amateur Cue players in India but the sport has still has not captured the attention of the masses. Cue sport is considered an elitist game even though Indian players clinching 42 world titles over years. To make the sport appeal to larger section of the society. Sportzlive Entertainment in association with Billiards & Snooker Federation of India launched the cue slam- Indian Cue Masters League. The 5 team affair will be held at the Rajpath Club in Ahmedabad, Gujarat; from August 19 to 25, 2017.

Cue slam will be played on a round-robin cum knock-out format. Each tie will consist of 5 matches with three 6-red snooker & two 9-ball pool matches per tie- no billiards and snooker. Each franchise has 5 players: 1 icon player, 1 female player, 3 men players with a stipulation that a minimum of three Indians will be in the team. Players draft with marquee players being picked at $15000. The matches will be live on Sony Espn.

TEAMS:- [ Icon, female player, other 3 players]

GUJRAT KINGS: - Andrew Pigget, Daria Sirotina, Alok Kumar, Sourav Kothari, Brijesh Damani.

COACH: - Ashok Shandilya

CHENNAI STRIKERS: - Pankaj Advani, Vidya Pillai, Dharminder Lilly, Faisal Khan, E. Panduranaiah

COACH: - G. Kishore Khurana

HYDERABAD HUSTIERS: - Amir Sarkhosh, Amee Kamani, Kamal Chawla, Lucky Vatnani, Anuj Uppal.

COACH: - Manoj Kothari.

BEGALURU BUDDIES: - Darren Morgan, Anastasia Nechaeva, Sundeep Gulati, Varun Madan, Laxman Rawat.

COACH: - Derek Sippy.

DELHI DONS: - Kelly Fisher, Laura Evans, Pushpinder Singh, Manan Chandra, Malkeet Singh.

COACH: -Tanuj Kohli.