Larkana’s Amin topples Mukhtar

Published January 16, 2002

KARACHI, Jan 15: Unknown Muhammad Amin from Larkana produced a sterling performance to send two-time Sindh champion Mukhtar Khan to move into the second round of Sindh Cup Snooker with a 5-0 triumph at Indus Club Bahadurabad Tuesday.

Amin showed a lot of promise while ousting Mukhtar who was ranked 18th in the championship. Showing fine potting Amin won 54-45, 69-28, 61-57, 76-26, 56-47.

Ahmer Shaikh chalked out three fine breaks of 49, 41 and 70 in third, 4th and fifth frame while beating Qasim Qamani 5-2.

In the best match of the day teenager Danish Haroon was stretched to limits by Farrukh Usman before emerging winner. In fact Danish staged a great fight back from 1-4, down to overcome spirited Qasim 9-64, 2-78, 84-24, 69-76, 32-50, 84-48, 68-19, 68-46, 55-32.

Top seed Irfan Rasheed started the event on fine note when he out-potted Baharat Sitiani in straight frames which included the breaks of 59 and 39 in the first two frames.

Following are the results of first round:

Atif Ayub bt Mohsin Raza 5-1, Ahmed Siddiqui bt Naeem Asghar 5-3, Asad Azeem bt Azdiar Mobed 5-1, Muhammad Amin bt Mukhtar Khan 5-0, S.A.R.Qadri bt Farrukh Feroz 5-1, Ajab Khan bt Muzamil Dad 5-2, Masood Ahmed bt Noor Ali Shah 5-1, Raheel Bashir bt Muhammad Riaz 5-3, Asim Ghani bt Jamal Ahmed 5-1, Danish Haroon bt Farrukh Usman 5-4, Yousuf Rafiq Bakhsh bt Haider Ali Khan 5-3, Imran Yousuf beat Shakil Tufail 5-3, Ahmer Shaikh bt Qasim Kamani 5-2, Irfan Rasheed Khan bt Baharat Sitaini 5-0.—APP

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