{"id":5204,"date":"2025-07-19T06:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T06:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/5204\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T06:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T06:47:09","slug":"basketball-fouls-prove-fatal-india-crash-out-of-asia-cup-more-sports-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/5204\/","title":{"rendered":"Basketball | Fouls prove fatal, India crash out of Asia Cup | More sports News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/122778393.jpg\" alt=\"Basketball | Fouls prove fatal, India crash out of Asia Cup\" title=\"India basketball team suffers 76-93 defeat against Thailand in semi-final qualifiers. (ANI Photo)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>India basketball team suffers 76-93 defeat against Thailand in semi-final qualifiers. (ANI Photo) Defensive lapses and a minute of foul fury proved fatal for India as the 79th-ranked women cagers lost the semifinal qualification game to Thailand 76-93 and crashed out of the FIBA Asia Cup basketball tournament at Shenzhen Sports Center in China on Friday. With an aim to register their first win over World No. 66 Thailand, the Indians made a positive start and were able to hold their higher-ranked opponents to a marginal 6-point lead at lemon break.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@toisports\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" target=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">SUBSCRIBE NOW!<\/a>The change of ends turned things in Thailand\u2019s favour when India came under severe foul trouble by committing all their four fouls within just a minute in the initial stage of the third quarter. Thailand capitalised on India\u2019s thirdminute blunder and dominated the remaining period of the third quarter by winning the same 29-18 for a match-winning 17-point advantage.Though India scored heavily in the last quarter \u2014 where both teams netted 25 points each \u2014 they fell short and lost the qualification game by 17 points. With this defeat in Division B of the tournament, Indian women will now have to wait for four years to participate with the top 10 teams of Asia. If a team qualifies for Division A in 2027, they can participate in the 2029 Asia Cup.Though India won the battle of boards 35-32, Thailand scored as many as 20 turnover points. Thailand converted 18 of their 45 three-pointer attempts as compared to just the three made by India.RESULT: Thailand (Rattiyakorn Udomsuk 25, Warinthon Summat 14) bt India (Sreekala Rani 23, Pushpa <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/senthil-kumar\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Senthil Kumar<\/a> 23, Aneesha Cleetus 11, Sanjana Ramesh 10) 93-76 (20-18, 19-15, 29-18, 25-25).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India basketball team suffers 76-93 defeat against Thailand in semi-final qualifiers. (ANI Photo) Defensive lapses and a minute&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,5740,7063,7064,7066,85,7065,7062],"class_list":["post-5204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-fiba-asia-cup","tag-india-vs-thailand","tag-india-womens-basketball-team","tag-senthil-kumar","tag-sports","tag-thailand-basketball-team","tag-womens-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}