The father-son coach-player duo of Noor Mohammad and Mohammad Faiz ensured St Joseph's (Wadala) beat Pawar Public School (Bhandup) 51-04 to enter the quarter-finals of the Mumbai Schools Sports Association (MSSA) boys U-13 inter-school basketball tournament at Azad Maidan yesterday.


St Joseph's basketball player Faiz with his father and coach Noor Mohammad at Azad Maidan yesterday. Pic/Suresh Karkera

Faiz emerged with a fine show scoring 20 points even as his father egged on the team from the sidelines. Faiz's father Sheikh, a police constable posted at the Naigaon Police Headquarters in Dadar, has played the sport a the junior national level and has been coaching the school team for the last 15 years.