{"id":6005,"date":"2025-07-19T13:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T13:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/6005\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T13:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T13:52:10","slug":"indian-basketball-team-beats-kazakhstan-103-77-to-finish-fifth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/6005\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian basketball team beats Kazakhstan 103-77 to finish fifth"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Indian basketball team<\/a> beat Kazakhstan 103-77 in the fifth-place playoff at the FIBA Women\u2019s Asia Cup 2025 Division B tournament in Shenzhen, the People\u2019s Republic of China, on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Sreekala Rani starred for India with a game-high 30 points while Daria Koroleva was Kazakhstan\u2019s top performer with 15 points.<\/p>\n

This was India\u2019s second win over the higher-ranked Kazakhstan in the tournament, having beaten them 85-68 in their Group A opener.<\/p>\n

Earlier, India finished second in Group A to reach the semi-final qualifiers, but a defeat to Thailand ended their promotion hopes. Only the Division B champions earn a spot in Division A.<\/p>\n

India made a strong start with Aneesha Cleetus knocking down a three-pointer to get the scoreboard ticking while Sreekala Rani got in on the action soon after as India raced to a 5-0 lead early on.<\/p>\n

World No. 14 Kazakhstan then fought back to turn the tables and led 7-5 before the two teams would go on to exchange leads for most of the opening period.<\/p>\n

With the scores tied on 22-22, India scored four unanswered points, which ensured that they had a 26-22 lead at the end of the first period.<\/p>\n

The second quarter saw India, world No. 15 in the FIBA basketball<\/a> rankings, shift gears. They conceded just 12 points while scoring 32 and went into the half-time break with a big 58-34 lead.<\/p>\n

India maintained their grip in the final two quarters to extend their lead and secure a comfortable victory.<\/p>\n

India returned to the FIBA Women\u2019s Asia Cup fold after a four-year absence, having missed the 2023 edition following their relegation from Division A in 2021.<\/p>\n

After finishing fifth in 2025, India will continue in Division B in the next edition of the FIBA Women\u2019s Asia Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Indian basketball team beat Kazakhstan 103-77 in the fifth-place playoff at the FIBA Women\u2019s Asia Cup 2025…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-6005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6005","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=6005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}