Indian U16 Boys Basketball team: Direct Tryouts announced for SABA C'ship
The South Asian Basketball Championship will be held in Colombo from 8th August, for which selection trials will be held in Indore, Madhya Pradesh.
South Asia’s premier basketball championship for U16 boys will be held in Sri Lanka in August, for which the Indian team will be picked through direct selection tryouts.
The same was announced via a circular issued by Basketball Federation of India, to all its affiliated units.
The SABA U16 Championship 2023 will be conducted in Colombo, from 8th to 12th August. In this regard, tryouts will be held in Indore, Madhya Pradesh on 16th and 17th July.
The venue of the tryouts in Indore will be the Basketball Complex, Near Janjeerwala Chauraha, Race Course.
Players born on or after 01-01-2007 will be eligible to participate.
Every State has been asked to send its top seven outstanding players, along with their valid Passports, 4 Passport size Photographs, Original DOB Certificates & Aadhaar card.
Thereafter, the preliminarily selected players will be asked to stay back for the National camp, at the same venue, until the final roster is announced.
The deadline for States to submit the list of their players is 12th July, and the reporting date is 15th July.