Sanjana Ramesh, Sreekala Rani headline India's roster for upcoming FIBA Women's Asia Cup 2025

India will compete in division B of the FIBA Women’s Asia Cup 2025 from July 13 to 20.

The Indian women’s basketball team are all set to play at FIBA Women’s Asia Cup 2025 Division B in Shenzen, China. After a long gap the women’s team will finally make an appearance at FIBA Women’s Asia Cup after failing to participate in 2023 edition.

India is grouped with Kazakhstan, Chinese Taipei and Tahiti in Group A of FIBA Asia Cup 2025 Division B. The team relegated to the lower division after a disappointing performance in the 2021 edition. They lost to Japan, South Korea and New Zealand before a close loss to Philippines in the 7-8th classification match. Their absence in the 2023 iteration of the tournament led to their relegation.

Indian basketball team for FIBA Women’s Asia Cup 2025

While most of the squad has been retained from the SABA Women’s Championship 2025, the list features a mix of old faces and few debutantes. Anmolpreet Kaur, Pushpa Senthil Kumar, Siya Deodhar, Priyanka Prabhakara are the new names in the list replacing Manmeet Kaur, Harshitha Bopaiah, Harima Sundari and Divyani Gangwal.

Deodhar and Prabhakara are making the senior debut while Anmolpreet Kaur and Pushpa Senthil Kumar are the veterans making their place.

Anmolpreet Kaur was part of the 2022 Asian Games and has played two editions of the FIBA Asia Cup. Kaur comes with international experience with her stint for Yamanshi Queenbees in the Japanese W-League. Pushpa Senthil Kumar plays for the Railways, she played in 2021 edition of the FIBA Women’s Asia Cup and was also one of the top performing players in the 2025 Senior Nationals.

Priyanka Prabhakara was the first Indian girl to be selected for the NBA Basketball Without Borders Global Camp in 2017. Prabhakara has represented the country in the U18 Asia Championship 2016 and the William Jones Cup 2018-19, which feature some of her current teammates like Sanjana Ramesh and Pushpa Senthil Kumar.

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Siya Deodhar is making her long awaited debut. She was part of the 3×3 squad the 2023 Asian Games in Hangzhou. Deodhar also comes some experience from the USA, after training for couple of years at the Life Prep Academy. Siya was also chosen for the NBA Basketball Without Borders Camp Asia and World.

Whenever India has played in the Division B of the tournament, they have been promoted after winning the tournament. The expectations will be the same for time around.

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