09 January 2004	Friday	16 Ziqa'ad 1424

KARACHI, Jan 8: Hafeez Farasha staged a grand recovery from 0-2 down to advance in the second stage of Sindh Cup Snooker Championship with exciting 3-2 win over Zeeshan Merchant at Aly's Parlor on Thursday.

Zeeshan potting superbly took the opening two frames but Hafeez came back fighting to grab the next three frames in row to register victory as well as claimed tournament's highest break of 81 in the final frame.

Results:

Irfan Cheema bt Abid Akhlaq 3-1, Umair Anwar bt Muhammad Javed 3-2, Nadeem Majeed Bakhsh bt Murtuza 3-1, Muhammad Wasim bt Abdul Basit 3- 0, Muhammad Zubair bt Arslan 3-1, Syed Akhtar bt Abdul Qadir Siddiqui 3-1, Omair Alam bt Muhammad Hilal 3-0, Ahsanullah Khan bt Ali Muhammad Usman 3-2, Kashif Ahmed bt Zulfiqar Khan 3-1, Kashif Afzal bt Mahboob Rehman 3-0, Moazzam Ali Awan bt Chaudhry Naeem 3-0, Hafeez Farasha bt Zeeshan Merchant 3-2, Muhammad Riaz bt Saeed Khan 3-0, Zulfiqar bt Nasir Waheed 3-0, Shahzad Hussain bt Muhammad Javed 3-0, Muhammad Hasan bt Hanain Younus 3-2, Tariq Amin bt Ghafoor Bakhsh 3-1, Faheem Raza bt Azeem Yousuf 3-0, Rafiq Khan bt Muhammad Azhar 3-0, Haider Taj Muhamad bt Abdul Majid 3-1, Azwar Shah bt Arif Rajput 3-2, Jawad Khaliq bt Muhammad Kamran 3-2, Furqan Hussain bt Abdul Waheed Khan 3- 1, Shah Rukh Waheed bt Karim Ali 3-1, Iftikhar Ahmed bt Ahmed Khalid 3-1, Gulzada bt Alam Khan 3-0.-APP