JEENA AND VISHESH TO LEAD INDIAN TEAM AT SAF GAMES IN BASKETBALL THE MATCHES STARTING ON 5TH DEC 2019
03/12/2019
Jeena Scaria from KSEB and Vishesh Briguvanshi from ONGC will lead India ay the 13th Edition of SAF games Basketball in Nepal starting on Decenmber 1st
Basketball is scheduled on 5th to 10th Dec 2019 and 3on 3 starts from 7th to 9th
8 malayalies have find their name in Basketball apart from Jeena ,Anjana PG, Stephy Nixon, and Nimmy George All from KSEB in the 5on5 and Sejin Mathew of Mar Ivanios College the Lone representation of Kerala in Men division of 5 x 5
Sreekala rani from mar Ivanios College Triavandrum and Aneesha Cleetus from KSEB was selected in 3x3 team Women along with Palakkat born Sruthi Aravind from Indian Railways
The Serbian coaches Zoran Visic and Vaslin Mattic are the head coaches of Women and Men respectively
5X5 INDIAN WOMEN TEAM LIST:-
Jeena PS (c) Anjann PG, Stephy Nixon, Nimmy George (all from Kerala) Dharshini Thirunavukkarasu,Srividhya Venkataraman ,Sathiya Senthilkumar (all from tamil Nadu) Madhu Kumari, Navaneetha P.U(both from Indian Railways ) Lopamudra Thimmaiah (Karnataka) Shireen Vijay Limaye(Maharastra)
Harsimran Kaur(Punjab)
5x5 INDIAN MEN TEAM:-
Vishesh Bhrguvanshi (c) ONGC Prasanna Venkatesh, Muin Baig and Arvind Annadurai (all from Tamil Nadu) Satnam Singh, Amritpal Singh,AmanSandhu(all from Punjab) Sejin Mathew (kerala) Sahaj R Patel (Gujarath) Haesh Dagar(UP) Aravind Arumugam(Karnataka)
3X3 INDIAN WOMEN TEAM LIST:-
Sreekala Rani & Aneesha Cleetus (both from Kerala) Sruthi Arvind (India Railways) Barkha Sonkar (UP)
3X3 INDIAN MEN TEAM LIST:-
Haeshwardhan Tomar (Madhya Pradesh) Rajeev Kumar & Mahipal Singh (Services) Hari ram (tamil Nadu)
Indian men to Play the Opener against Nepal on 5th Dec 2019 , while women will play their opening match against Maldieves on 6th
Six teams in men and women are participating in this Six day event which will be palyed on a League cum knock out format
In 3 x 3 which will start on 7th which will play on a round robin Knock out format
Indian Men will be participating with Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
The women Nepal and Sri Lanka
Groupings 5 x 5
Men
Group A- Bangldesh,Nepal, Maldieves
Group B – India Sri Lanka ,Bhutan
Women
Group A-India , Maldieves Sri Lanka
Group B – Bhutan Bangldesh,Nepal,