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12th March 2018: Four Keralites Jeena P S, Anjana P G, Grima Merlin Verghese from Kerala State Electricity Board along with Sruthi Menon the Keralite from Indan Railways will depart for Australia with the Indian Men and Women Basketball Teams in preparation for the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games on Monday(12/03/2018) morning being held in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia from 4th to 15 April 2018.
The Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games (GC2018) will welcome more than 6,600 athletes and team officials from 70 Commonwealth nations and territories to the Gold Coast and event cities Brisbane, Cairns, and Townsville, to share in the celebration of sport, entertainment, and culture.The largest sporting event to be staged in Australia this decade, GC2018 will feature the largest integrated sports program in Commonwealth Games history, comprising 18 sports and seven para-sports.The Indian basketball contingent will arrive in Gold Coast three weeks ahead of the start of the main event. Indian players will be on a exposers trip in the Runaway Bay Super Sports Centre where they will continue their training that was previously going on at the Sree Kanteerava Indoor Stadium, Bengaluru, India since 1st February 2018. This will be only the second time since 2006 that basketball is a part of the commonwealth games again.
The women team will be lead by Shireen Limmaye from Maharastra while Yadwinder Singh from ONGC will lead the Men’s Team, The Women’s Team is placed in Pool B alongside New Zealand, Jamaica and Malaysia. The women team will be coached by Zoran Visic from Serbia assisted by Shiba Magoon and Managed by Ajay Sud from Himachal Pradesh. The men contingent will be trained by Rajinder Singh from Punjab and Assisted by GRL Prasad from Services and managed by Shakthi Singh from Gujarath.

Women’s Team Schedule: 
India Vs Jamaica (5th April, Cairns)
India Vs Malaysia (7th April, Cairns)
India Vs New Zealand (8th April, Cairns)
Men’s Team Schedule:
India Vs Jamaica (5th April, Townsville)
India Vs England (7th April, Townsville)
India Vs Scotland (8th April, Townsville)

The final rosters for both the Teams are:
Women
Shireen Limaye © (Maharashtra ) Madhu Kumari, Navaneetha PU, R Raja Priyadarshini, Sruthi Menon (all from Indian railways ) Jeena P S, Anjana PG and Grima Merlin Verghese (all from Kerala) Raspreet Sidhu(Delhi) Bhandavya HM(Karnataka) Anmolpreet Kaur(Punjab) Barkha Sonkar(Uttar Pradesh)
Men
Yadwinder Singh© Utharkhand, Amritpal Singh, Amjyot Singh, Satnam Singh Arshpreet Singh Bhullar(all from Punjab ) A Aravind, P Akilan, Justin G P Jeevanantham(all from Tamil Nadu) Ravi Bhardwaj(Chandigarh), Arvind Arumugam(Karnataka) Joginder Singh (Services)

While the Men’s Team is in Pool B alongside England, Cameroon and Scotland whereas the Preliminary Round: