NSCI Badminton League 2026Solitaire Shuttlers Win Three Deciders to Take the NSCI Badminton League 2026
The National Sports Club of India in Mumbai ran its first league on CadreSports in October. The NSCI Badminton League 2026 was played over three days, from Friday 2nd to Sunday 4th October, on three courts at the club.
Six teams each had a squad of 17, drawn across seven skill categories (Marquee, A, B+, B, C, Women A and Women B), with two women in every squad. The teams played a single round robin of five ties each, 15 ties in all, and the top two met in a final on the Sunday. Every tie was five doubles rubbers, each the best of three games to 21. Results, lineups and the final table remain on the league page.
The season in numbers
6 teams, 102 players
Every one of the 102 registered players played at least one rubber.
16 ties, 78 rubbers, 179 games
6,222 points were scored across the three days, every one of them recorded live from courtside.
23 rubbers to a third game
And 11 of the 16 ties finished 3–2.
Longest game: 28–26
Rajdhani Royals' Pranamya Joshi and Bhairav Sheth against Smashing Stars' Mukesh Mehta and Dr Sanket Mehta on 2nd October. Rajdhani won the rubber in three.
The race for the final
Three teams finished the round robin with four wins from five. Solitaire Shuttlers topped the table on rubbers, winning 16 and losing 9. They beat Super Smashers 3–2, King Shuttlers 4–1, Smashing Stars 4–1 and Josh 3–2. Their only defeat was 2–3 to Rajdhani Royals on Saturday 3rd October.
Rajdhani Royals started badly, losing 1–4 to King Shuttlers on the opening day. They then won four in a row: 4–1 against Smashing Stars, 3–2 against Solitaire Shuttlers, 3–2 against Josh and 3–2 against Super Smashers.
Rajdhani Royals and King Shuttlers finished level on ties, 4–1, and level on rubbers, 14–11. Rajdhani took the second place in the final on games won, 32 to 28, even though King Shuttlers had beaten them 4–1 on the opening day.
Behind them, Smashing Stars finished fourth with two wins (10 rubbers won, 15 lost), Super Smashers fifth with one (11–14) and Josh sixth (10–15). The table was ranked on ties won, then rubbers won, then games won, then head-to-head. The full table is on the standings page.
The final
The final on Sunday 4th October was a rematch of Solitaire Shuttlers’ only defeat. This time Solitaire won the first three rubbers, so the last two were not needed.
In the first doubles, Neville Katila and Neeral P Shah beat Tushar Jhaveri and Kunal Ruparel 21–17, 15–21, 21–12. In the second, Sidharth Nandal and Tanmay Golecha beat Yashkumar Golechha and Pratik Chhabra 21–14, 20–22, 21–10. In the third, Nitika Thakur and Krish Thakur beat Mayur Bhojwani and Shalini Kandhari 18–21, 22–20, 21–18 to clinch the title.
Solitaire Shuttlers won the final 3–0, and all three rubbers went to a third game.
Every rubber of the final, with the full scores, is on the matches page.
Players of the league
Krish Thakur of Solitaire Shuttlers won 6 of his 7 rubbers, the most wins in the league, and appeared in all six of Solitaire’s ties.
Five players finished unbeaten with five wins from five: Nikhil Mansukhani of King Shuttlers, Sidharth Nandal of Solitaire Shuttlers, Yameer Sanghvi of Super Smashers, and Romit Nagpal and Harsh Shah of Smashing Stars.
Three pairs won all four rubbers they played together: Nikhil Mansukhani and Naresh Mirpuri for King Shuttlers, Yameer Sanghvi and Veer Lodha for Super Smashers, and Romit Nagpal and Harsh Shah for Smashing Stars. Nitika Thakur and Krish Thakur won all three rubbers they played as a pair, including the one that decided the final. Nitika Thakur had the best record among the women, with three wins from four.
What ran on CadreSports
Captains submitted their lineups in the app before each tie. Umpires scored every rubber point by point from courtside, and the live match pages, the schedule and the standings updated as each rubber finished. The table was final the moment the last round-robin rubber ended.
Over the league week, from 1st to 6th October, the league pages were viewed 5,776 times on 286 devices. The busiest day was Saturday 3rd October, with 2,478 views. Live match pages were opened 705 times, and the median visit lasted 1 minute 54 seconds.
What’s next
NSCI’s next league on CadreSports, the NSCI Women’s Badminton League 2026, followed on 31st October.
For us at CadreSports, this is what we’re building towards: more amateur leagues connected through technology, with every result recorded and every player’s contribution visible.
Explore the results, lineups and scores on the league page and the final table on the standings page.
Congratulations to Solitaire Shuttlers, and thank you to all six teams and 102 players who made the NSCI Badminton League 2026 — every rubber scored, every point counted, every player on the record.
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