Standing tall & proud: Poonam’s basketball diaries

POONAM Chaturvedi stands out from the rest, literally.

- CHANDRA PRABHU @Chennai

Standing seven foot — 213 centimetre (approx), she, as per records, is the tallest Indian female athlete.In her brief cameo for the Railways at the senior national basketball championship here — where they defeated Chaturvedi’s former team Chhatisgarh 84-40 on Wednesday — she dominated the post, scoring 12 points. Her match-up was a complete mismatch, and Chaturvedi, as she is known to do, had to simply collect those long passes from her teammates and bank it into the net.