Nagpur: One day after being humbled by Saudi Arabia, India was beautifully raving to survive the difficult Palestinian test 79-77 in their final qualifying game from the Fiba Asian Cup in Jeddah on Saturday.
With this amazing coming-from-back victory, the Indian men’s basketball team ensured they were in a race to be the best in Asia.
They will now wait for the results of the final qualifying match on Sunday between hosts of Saudi Arabia and Palestine.
In the DO-OR-Die game, India failed defensively but regained the momentum in the last quarter.
While Palestine leads the game for 34.10 minutes, the Indian game is very good in the dying stage helping them seal problems with two points.
Amritpal Singh in action.
(Pic Credit: Fiba.com) Defensive irregularities in the early stages of their second sightseeing expensive for India as a lower-ranked Palestinine scored 13 points that have not been answered and up 20-7 in the first quarter.
After that, experienced Indian cagers tried to return and play their hearts in the last time to pocket their most important victory.
The quarter wise progress in supporting India was read 13-25, 23-21, 16-15, 27-16.
While India managed to win the 40-39 board battle, their shooting was much better 38-22 from paint.
Indian players celebrate it.
(PIC Credit: Fiba.com) Duo India Lanky from Amritpal Singh and Amjyot Singh joined a score of 53 of 79 points scored by the team.
While Amritpal scored 30 points as high as teams, Amjyot added 23 as Joglinder Singh (12) made the most of his outer shooting to contribute and Young Sahaij Sekhon (7) to use his speed well.
The courage of the Palestinian professional player Kyndall Dykes (32) and Sani Sakakini (22) was in vain.
Indian Star Performance Amritpal Singh said, “Yesterday we played very badly, but our coach united us all.
It is a do-or-die game for us and everyone plays together and plays hard to win this match.” The Indian team on the bus after victory.
(PIC Credit: Fiba.com) With India on the waiting list for their progress in Asia Cup, a national coach who was happy Veselin Matic from Serbia added a little tennis in post-match comments.
“Here we are in a situation of playing tennis matches.
Today is the second set of tennis matches.
We play three setters.
We will see tomorrow to succeed.
I really appreciate my players to fight back.
It is very difficult to return in such a game.
The players consistently followed our instructions and with a little luck, we won this match.
Sometimes in a basketball, if we fight, we get a gift like that, “said Matic Toi.
Results: India (Amritpal Singh 30, Amjyot Singh 23, Joglinder Singh 12, Sahaij Sekhon 7) BT Palestine (Kyndall Dykes 32, Sani Sakakini 22) 79-77 (13-25, 23-21, 16-15, 27-16 Whom