It was double delight for the Indian Railways because it clinched each the boys’s and girls’s titles within the seventy fifth Senior Nationwide Basketball championship that concluded on the Nehru Indoor Stadium on Sunday.
Within the girls’s part, Railways defeated Kerala 75-66 to clinch its eighth consecutive crown and forty first total.
In the meantime, within the males’s part, Railways dethroned defending champion Tamil Nadu 77-69, which was going for a hat-trick of titles.
For Railways, it was a collective effort led by Arvinder Singh, who topped the scoring with 18 factors. He was properly supported by the likes of Kanwar Gurbaz Singh Sandhu and skipper Palpreet Singh, serving to Railways reclaim the massive prize it final received in 2010.
In the course of the pre-match coaching routine, TN gamers’ taking pictures was off-target, virtually an indication of issues to come back. Within the first quarter, as Railways nailed its photographs, TN fluffed easy ones and allowed the customer to take a 20-7 lead that it by no means relinquished.
The Railways’ defence too was spectacular and by no means allowed the likes of A. Anantharaj and Muin Bek Hafeez discover house to nail the three-pointers.
For TN, solely Arvind Kumar Muthukrishnan was in kind, scoring 29 factors, however the others did not step up.
Earlier within the night, the Railways girls have been stretched by a spirited Kerala staff in a fiercely contested match, becoming of a summit conflict.
The groups have been neck and neck for many components of the match till late within the closing quarter. Trailing 61-47, Kerala scored 10 factors on the bounce and rapidly narrowed the hole to simply three factors in the course of the fourth quarter.
Nonetheless, Railways hit again, scoring 9 factors in a row to swell the lead again to 12, which helped it defend its crown.
Within the playoff matches, Delhi beat Uttar Pradesh (70-61), and Tamil Nadu bought previous Madhya Pradesh (76-49) to clinch bronze within the males’s and girls’s sections, respectively.
Outcomes (Finals)
Ladies: Indian Railways 75 (Ok.B. Harshitha 23, Pushpa Senthilkumar 22, P. Priyanka 11, Dharshini Thirunavukkarasu 10) bt Kerala 66 (Sreekala Rani 26, Kavitha Jose 22, Aneesh Cleetus 10).
Males: Indian Railways 77 (Arvinder Singh 18, Kanwar Gurbaz Singh Sandhu 14, Sahaij Pratap Singh Sekhon 14, Palpreet Singh Brar 12, Princepal Singh 10) bt Tamil Nadu 69 (Arvind Kumar Muthukrishnan 29, Baladhaneshwar Poiyamozhi 13).
Revealed on Jan 11, 2026