Former basketball worldwide Mohammed Iqbal, a former Kerala captain, handed away in Kochi on Monday. He was 74.
Iqbal, who hailed from Kottayam and who got here to the game by way of the YMCA and Baselius School there, was the primary participant from Kerala to play within the Asian Championship (in Japan, 1971).
The captain of the Kerala workforce in 1973-74, Iqbal, additionally performed a giant function in bringing former gamers collectively by way of ‘Rebound’.
He was the president of ‘Rebound’, a gamers’ collective shaped to advertise the sport since its inception in 2016.