Coimbatore District Basketball Association has been successfully organizing the All India Basketball Tournament for Men and women for the past 51 years.
This year’s edition of 52nd Nachimuthu Gounder Cup for Men and 16th C.R.I Pumps Trophy for Women will be held between 26th May to 31st May 2017. Eight leading teams of the country are participating in the Men’s tournament including Income Tax - Chennai, Indian Air Force - Delhi, Sports Authority of Gujarat & Central Reserve Police Force - Delhi, and (Pool B) Indian Overseas Bank - Chennai, Indian Railway - Delhi, Indian Navy - Lonavala and Coimbatore District Basketball Association (CDBA), Coimbatore are to take part in All Indian Basketball tournament.
For the Women's tournament, the eight teams including South Central Railway - Secunderabad, Southern Railway - Chennai, Eastern Railway - Kolkata& Arise Steel - Chennai, KSEB - Thiruvananthapuram, Chhattisgarh State - Bilaspur, North Frontier Railway – Guwahati and Coimbatore District Basketball Association (CDBA), Coimbatore are to take part.
Cash prizes will be awarded to the winning team. While Rs. 1, 00,000 would be awarded to NachimuthuGounder Cup Winner, and Rs. 50,000 would be given to the winning team of C.R.I. Pumps Trophy.
CCM Commissioner K. Vijayakarthikeyan, IAS would, Commissioner and Special Officer, Coimbatore Corporation will be the chief guest, while VV.Raja Sathyan, President - Tamilnadu Basket Ball Association has kindly consented to be the Guest of Honour of the inauguration of the event.