Pakistan beat Finland, Ireland in snooker KARACHI: Pakistan won both the matches on the second day of the IBSF 6-Reds Snooker Team Championship in Carlow, Ireland, as the duo of Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Sajjad continued to shine in every format. According to the information made available by the Pakistan Billiards & Snooker Association (PBSA) here on Wednesday, Asif and Sajjad extended their brilliant form to earn Pakistan victories over Finland and Ireland, after having outplayed England on the opening day. Asif and Sajjad combined superbly to edge out the dangerous Irish duo of Daniel Dempsey and Jason Devaney 3-2 with the scores of 68-12, 23-87, 84-4, 60-35, 24-82. Asif started well against Daniel Dempsey in the opening frame. With a break of 68 points, he was looking to clear the table, but fell short when he went out of position on the second last red. The cue ball landed too close to red leaving no option for Asif to pot that. The second frame was completely dominated by Jason Devaney and he pulled the frame from Sajjad 87-23. Pakistan team did well in the doubles frame to defeat team Ireland 84-06. Sajjad continued the zeal in the single (reverse) frame too to register a win for Pakistan. In the last frame Asif lost to Devaney 24-82 and the match score settled on 3-2 in favour of Pakistan. They proved even more lethal in the process of whitewashing the Finland pair of Juha Lehto and Aki Suutari 5-0 with the frame scores of 79-21, 93-26, 50-3, 89-16, 75-6. Having beaten England, represented by Jeff Cundy and Nick Jennings, 4-1 with the frame scores of 63-51, 100-0, 70-22, 106-12, 36-72 in their first match, Asif and Sajjad will now take on the Indian duo of Shivam Arora and Shahbaz Adil Khan in their fourth and final league outing on Thursday (today). On the second day of the individual event on Asif, the reigning world champion, extended his winning streak by outwitting Jason Devaney of Ireland 4-2 with the frame scores of 12-58, 36-22, 44-01, 41-11, 12-37, 32-34, 43-23. It was his third straight victory in the Group D, having overwhelmed Patryk Maslowski of Poland and Maksim Shkarupa of Russia earlier. Sajjad, two times national champion, also continued to perform brilliantly in the Group R. Having trounced Mario Van Herk of Belgium in straight frames on the first day, he followed it up with another convincing victory, blanking Ahmed Benraïssi of France in straight frames with the scores of 35-23, 30-0, 37-0, 55-0. Another Irish team (Ireland7) lost to team India1. However, Ireland1 and Ireland5 registered convincing wins against Australia and the UAE, respectively.
Posted on: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 11:06:48 +0000
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