KARACHI, Dec 15: Despite dropping a frame, Pakistan No 3 Naveen Perwani played a vital role to steer Karachi Club ‘A’ in the final of the Haji Abdul Karim Dhedhi memorial Inter-club snooker tournament at the Karachi Club premises on Thursday.

Naveen, winner of this year’s Latif Master’s and finalist of national championship, first cracked a half century (50) break in the doubles with Vishan Gir, and later won the lucky seven to beat fighting Karachi Club ‘B’ 7-3 in the semifinal.

Favourites Karachi Club ‘A’ now take on Area Snooker Club who outplayed Karachi Club ‘C’ 6-0 in the other pre-final.

The best of seven frames final between Karachi Club ‘A’ and Area Snooker Club will be played Friday at 6.30pm.

Earlier, Karachi Club ‘A’ completed their league engagements with a clean slate accumulating 35 points to top group ‘A’.

In their last match they had the better of Karachi Club ‘C’ 6-4 who despite the loss finished runners up in the group.

Area Snooker Club overcame fighting Karachi Club ‘B’ 5-4 to top group ‘B’ with 29 points. Karachi ‘B’ had to be content with second slot with 24 points.

Results:

Karachi Club ‘A’ bt Karachi Club ‘C’ 6-4

Vishan Gir-Qasim Kamani bt Farhan Idrees-Ahad Ali Khan 61-17, Atiq Latif Bux-Muhammad Yasin lost to Dilip Perwani-Kashif Jafferani 35-55, Qasim Kamani bt Dilip Perwani 64-17, Vishan Gir bt Ahad Ali Khan 69-10, Muhammad Yasin lost to Kashif Jafferani 14-51, Atiq Latif Bux lost to Farhan Idrees 0-88, Atiq Latif Bux bt Farhan Idrees 62-47.

Karachi Club ‘B’ bt Area Snooker Club 5-4

Bharat Satiani-Ahmad Saleem lost to Salman Sheikh-Irfan Rasheed 67-68, Anil Bherwani-Asim Ghani lost to Kamran Razzak-Farrukh Usman 30-64, Anil Bherwani bt Irfan Rasheed 60-17, Bharat Satiani lost to Farrukh Usman 42-72, Asim Ghani bt Usman Razzak 72-52, Ahmad Saleem lost to Salman Sheikh 47-72, Anil Bherwani bt Salman Sheikh 74-37.

Semifinals:

Karachi Club ‘A’ bt Karachi Club ‘B’ 7-3

Qasim Kamani-Atiq Latif Bux bt Bharat Satiani-Ahmad Saleem 58-31, Naveen Perwani-Vishan Gir bt Anil Bherwani-Asim Ghani 66-43, Qasim Kamani lost to Anil Bherwani 31-64, Atiq Latif Bux bt Ahmad Saleem 60-23, Naveen Perewani lost to Asim Ghani 46-72, Vishan Gir lost to Bharat Satiani 38-62, Naveen Perwani bt Anil Bherwani 71-7.

Area Snooker Club bt Karachi Club ‘C’ 6-0

Farrukh Usman-Salman Shaikh bt Farhan Idrees-Kashif Jafferani 58-26, Kamran Razzak-Irfan Rasheed bt Dilip Perwani-Ahad Ali Khan 69-44, Farrukh Usman bt Dilip Perwani 63-19, Kamran Razzak bt Farhan Idrees 49-42, Salman Shaikh bt Ahad Ali Khan 58-37, Irfan Rasheed bt Kashif Jafferani 58-28.

Friday’s fixtures: (Final) Karachi Club ‘A’ v Area Snooker Club at 6.30pm.