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Pranav Prince from Thriuvanthapuram the only one from Kerala  who finds his name in the final 12 while K  Manohara Kumar the president of Kerala Basketball Association will be the MANGER, here for the  FIBA World Cup 2023 Asian Qualifiers (Window-1 & 2) at Manila, Philippines from 24th – 28th February 2022.

·                     Vishesh Bhriguvanshi from ONGC will lead  the team

·                     The team will be trained by Veselin Maric from Serbia

·                     Indian Sr. Men Basketball Team is placed in Group A along with New Zealand, Philippines & Korea. The Indian Sr. Men Basketball Team for the FIBA World Cup 2023 Asian Qualifiers (Window-1 & 2)

Match Schedule for India

·         24th India Vs  New Zealand 

·         25th India Vs  Philippines ,

·          27th India Vs Korea

·         28th February 2022 again India Vs  New Zealand

The team   Vishesh Bhriguvanshi ONGC (Captain), Amritpal Singh, , Princepal Singh (both from Punjab ) Aravind Annadurai, Arvind Kumar Muthu Krishnan, , Muin Bek Hafeez (all from Tamil Nadu ) Rajeev Kumar( Services ) Pranav Prince(Kerala),Manoj B M (Karnataka) Prashant Singh Rawat(Uttarakhand ) , Palpreet Singh Brar(Indian Railways) Sahaij Pratap Singh Sekhon (Chandigarh)

Mr Veselin Matic (Head Coach), Pradeep Tomar (Asst Coach)K Manoharakumar (Team Manager) Siva Shanmuga Singh (Physio),

Competition System

The 16 teams from Asia and Oceania will play the FIBA Basketball World Cup Asian Qualifiers during six windows. 

As the host of the World Cup’s Final Phase, the Philippines are already qualified, in addition to the seven spots reserved for the Asian qualifiers. These qualified teams will play in the 2023 edition of the World Cup that will take place in the Philippines, Japan and Indonesia.

Japan is also qualified as host in virtue of its ranking, but takes up one of the available seven spots for Asia at the event. 

The Philippines and Japan will play in the FIBA Basketball World Cup Asian Qualifiers First Round and Second Round, advancing to the next phase as automatically qualified. Indonesia’s guaranteed spot is subject to reaching the Quarter Finals of the FIBA Asia Cup. Six spots are therefore available for the remaining teams. 

In the First Round, the 16 teams will be divided into four groups (A-D) of four. Each team will face the other three teams in their group on a home-and-away basis over the first three windows. Each team will play two games in each window. These windows will be in November 2021, February 2022 and June 2022. 

The top three teams from each group will advance to the Second Round of the Asian Qualifiers. This group will join another three teams to form another group. Prequalified host teams Japan and the Philippines will take up one of the three spots in the group, regardless of their position within their group. 

All teams will carry over the results from the First Round. 

In the Second Round, each team will play home-and-away against the three teams from the other group over the final three windows. The Second Round windows will take place in August 2022, November 2022 and February 2023. Each team will play two games in each window. At the end of these additional six games per team, the top three teams in addition to the Philippines and Japan from each group will qualify to the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023. Should Indonesia also be guaranteed a spot, then only the best third placed team would qualify in addition to the top two placed teams from each group. 

With the Asian Qualifiers running from November 2021 to February 2023 - and national sides playing home and away games across each of these event windows - This ensures there's regular and competitive national team games for players to play and for fans to experience from all around the world.

The qualification process follows the FIBA Competition System successfully used for the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019.

·  1st Window: November 22 - 30, 2021

·  2nd Window: February 21 - March 1, 2022

·  3rd Window: June 27 - July 5, 2022

·  4th Window: August 22 - 30, 2022

·  5th Window: November 7 - 15, 2022

·  6th Window: February 20 - 28, 2023

The windows are where teams will play the qualifying games. Each of the six windows are nine days in length. Each team will play two games in each window, on a home-and-away basis.

At the end of the third window, the top three teams from each group progress to the Second Round. In the Second Round, the First Round Groups merge as follows to form a new six-team groups:

1. A and C => E
2. B and D => F