KARACHI, Jan 11: Hasan Rasheed produced a major surprise in Sindh Cup snooker championship qualifying rounds when he defeated Murtuza Rajab Ali 3-2 to sail into the third round at Indus Club Bahadurabad Friday.

Unknown Hasan staged a fine rally from 0-2 to defeat former national cueist Murtuza 3-2 by winning next three frames.

Muzamil Dad also showed fighting qualities when he came from 0-2 to overcome Ahmed Ansari 3-2 after a tense tussle.

The third round matches will start Saturday.

Sixteen players from Sindh Cup qualifiers will move to join the other 16 directly placed in the main draw for the title.

Later top 16 in main Sindh Cup will advance to play in the qualify rounds of the National Snooker Championship.

Following are results second round:

Muzamil Dad bt Ahmed Ansari 3-2, Faheem Khan bt Shahzad Khan 3-1, Muhammad Baqar beat Kashif Afzal 3-0, Azhar Abbas bt Ajmal Zaheer 3-1, Iftikhar Ahmed bt Sarfraz Lakhani 3-0, Noor Ali Shah beat Shahbaz Razzaq 3-1, Nasir Waheed bt Burhan Danish 3-1, Anwar Saeed bt Salim Khan 3-0, Fraz Salim bt M.Khursheed 3-2, Syed Mehdi Hasan bt Jamal Hyder 3-2, Umair Sallim bt Dilshad Khan 3-0, Farooq Usman bt Siddiq Samoo 3-0, Hasan Rasheed bt Murtuza Rajab Ali 3-2, Bharat Sitaini bt Nadeem-ur-Rehman 3-1, Azeem Akhtar bt M.Zubair Khan 3-1.—APP