Captain “
Vijayakanth
” is busy in politics. His elder son
Vijaya Prabhakaran
is a good businessman. He already owns the Badminton team Chennai Smashers, which has talented players like PV Sindhu. Now, Vijaya Prabhakaran has bought the snooker team too. The team has been named as Chennai Strikers. Chennai Strikers has
Pankaj Advani
, Vidhya Pillai, Dharminder Lilly,
Faisal Khan
and Pandu Rangaiah. Kishore Khurana is the chief coach of Chennai Strikers. Pankaj Advani is the 16 time World Champion. He has also grabbed the Asian title seven times and an Australian title, once. Pankaj is the National title winner for 29 times. Vidhya Pillai is the 2017 Eden World Women Snooker Champion. She has been honored with Ekalavya Award in 2016. She had been the champion in Australian Open once and had been the National title winner for 25 times. Prabhakaran has chosen the best players in his team. Snooker League starts from 19th August to 26th August.