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Friday – January 24th, 2014 India  110  45 Macau China Final. India Win. FINAL India  39  68  86  110  110 Macau China  10  22  31  45  45     Following the men’s team’s comfortable win yesterday, Indian women followed suit with a lopsided victory over Macau China. There are four women’s teams at this edition’s […]

This profile was originally published in Tadpoles magazine and can be accessed here.  “Humaari bitiya basketball nahi khelegi” (our little girl won’t play basketball), Basant Singh Yadav said categorically, when he heard of his second daughter’s curious new affliction. “Kyun nahi, use pasand hai” (why not, she loves it!) retorted Anita Devi, the better half. […]

Saturday – January 25th, 2014 India 46 92 Mozambique Final. Mozambique Win. FINAL India 14 23 35 46 46 Mozambique 24 45 71 92 92     India’s Shireen Limaye falls to the ground alongwith a Mozambique player. Photo Courtesy: Basketball Federation of India. Despite battling till the very end, India couldn’t avoid a morale sapping […]

Sunday – January 26th, 2014 India 58 66 Angola FINAL. ANGOLA WINS.   FINAL India 18 30 44 58 58 Angola 15 28 45 66 66 A young u-21 Indian team tripped over its own feet to lose against an Angola side which also comprised junior (u-23) players. India led at the end of the […]