Appoorva Muralinath (born in

Chennai Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras ( the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost Indian state. The largest city of the state in area and population, Chennai is located on the Coromandel Coast of th ...

Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a States and union territories of India, state in southern India. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, tenth largest Indian state by area and the List of states and union territories of India ...

) is an Indian basketball player and coach. Her career as a player was from 2005-2017, and she played on the

India women's national basketball team India women's national basketball team is a national women's national basketball team representing India at the international level. At the 2017 FIBA Women's Asia Cup, India was promoted to Division A after beating Kazakhstan 75-73 in the Fina ...

from 2010-2015. She is a power forward/ center. She is the daughter of K. Muralinath who played for the Indian National Men's Basketball Team in the

1982 Asian Games The 9th Asian Games ( hi, 1982 एशियाई खेल) were held from 19 November to 4 December 1982, in Delhi, India. 74 Asian and Asian Games records were broken at the event. This was also the first Asiad to be held under the aegis of ...

. She is now the youth basketball coach for the

Boston Celtics The Boston Celtics ( ) are an American professional basketball team based in Boston. The Celtics compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference Atlantic Division. Founded in 1946 as one of t ...

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* Indian women's basketball players Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Basketball players from Tamil Nadu Sportspeople from Chennai Centers (basketball) Power forwards {{India-basketball-bio-stub