Lucknow: The near-capacity crowds that turned out at the Babu Banarasi Das Stadium on Monday to watch the leader of their own Awadhe Warriors squad, Saina Nehwal, will have another opportunity of watching the nation's darling in action when the Lucknow side takes on Bengaluru Topguns in the only Premier Badminton League (PBL) tie on Wednesday.


Saina Nehwal. Pic/AFP

The extent of the crowd's love affair with Saina could be gauged from the fact that, after the 25 year old shuttle queen destroyed her former Gopichand Academy stable-mate P C Thulasi in the second match of the tie against Delhi Acers (which also happened to be the trump match for Awadhe), the fans almost miraculously melted away, and the final two matches of the tie were played to a near-empty stadium.