Two Keralites have been selected to the senior India squad for the FIBA Asia Cup 2025 Qualifiers to be held in Kazakhstan and New Delhi from February 20 to 27.

Vaisakh K Manoj has earned his maiden senior national call-up while Pranav Prince is also part of the Indian team to be captained by Amritpal Singh. Vaisakh represents the Central GST & Customs, Kochi and Pranav is a player of Indian Bank, Chennai.

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Team India is with Qatar, Kazakhstan and Iran in Group E. India's first game is on February 23rd in Astana and the second one on February 26 in New Delhi.

Squad: Amritpal Singh (C), Knwar Gurbaz Singh Sandhu, Princepal Singh, Palpreet Singh Brar, Amarendra Nayak, Sahaij Pratap Singh Sekhon, Vishesh Bhriguvanshi, Muin Bek Hafeez, P Baladhaneshwar, Pranav Prince, Vaisakh K Manoj and Arvind Kumar Muthu Krishnan.
Staff: Veselin Matic (head coach), Santosh PS, Pradeep Tomar, Siva Shanmuga Singh (coaches).