Hafeez outlasts battling Zeeshan

Published January 9, 2004

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

Opinion

Editorial

Centre vs provinces
Updated 10 Jun, 2026

Centre vs provinces

The reason the centre finds itself in this position is rooted in its failure to expand the tax net and boost revenues.
Party in crisis
10 Jun, 2026

Party in crisis

THE young KP chief minister must be starting to realise just how thorny a seat he occupies. There has been a flurry...
Varsity woes
10 Jun, 2026

Varsity woes

FINANCIAL crises affecting public sector universities across Pakistan are now having an impact on academic...
Doctor attacked
09 Jun, 2026

Doctor attacked

AN act of reprehensible violence has shaken the medical community. On Saturday, an employee of the Provincial Civil...
AJK flare-up
Updated 09 Jun, 2026

AJK flare-up

The situation started deteriorating after a trader affiliated with the JAAC was reportedly shot in an altercation with law-enforcers.
Fault lines
09 Jun, 2026

Fault lines

THE April 8 ceasefire that halted hostilities between Israel and Iran has encountered its most serious test yet....