CAIRO, Oct 25: Republic of Ireland’s Jason Watson produced another explosive performance to subdue seventh seed Khurram Agha of Pakistan 4-0 to take over the leadership of group “G” in the World Snooker Championship Friday with his fifth win in a row.

With his second defeat in the group, Khurram slipped to third from his top position with four win from six games in 11-men group.

Watson, who is yet to drop a frame in championship, clearly dominated the Pakistani cueist with his superior potting, safety play and cue control in a match lasting just over two hour.

Watson, who entered his fifth league round with clean record, chalked out a comfortable 68-34, 66-52, 91-0, 58-45 victory.

rishman took the full advantage and cleared the table by potting all the colored balls for a break of 27 to win opening frame 68-34.

The second frame saw tussle for supremacy as both played neck to neck. But at a crucial juncture Khurram when enjoying 24 points advantage he broke under pressure.

Trying to play a safety shot he could not place the ball properly and Watson capitalizing on the mistake compiled a break of 42 to take second frame 62-52.

It was one way traffic in third frame. Watson showing ascendancy constructed a break of 68 to blank Khurram 91-0 and consolidated his position with a 3-0 lead.

The fourth frame saw Khurram staging a comeback in the game after he had taken 26 points lead. But trying to make a position behind pink he missed the shot.

Watson made small break to make the score 45-31 and after Khurram failed to play yellow ball safely, he smartly potted yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black ball on the table to settle the issue without much further fuss.

Earlier Thursday night Khurram took 12 minutes to wrap his unfinished match against Lim Chun Kiat of Singapore to record 87-32, 62-52, 60-46, 23-59, 50-60, 91-7.

Khurram was leading 3-2 in match against Kiat when it was put-off after it failed to finish 40 minutes before the next session.

The Karachi-lad chalked out two fine breaks of 50 and 38 in the sixth frame to sigh of relief of team manager Wahid Qadir.

In his 7th match Saturday evening, Khurram will be clashing Wen-Tung Chan of Chinese Taipei while Saleh Muhammad face-off local boy Hossan Allam in the same final session. At the end of five day matches 19 century breaks has been recorded in the event with four coming from local Egyptian heroes. Thailand’s Somporn Kunthawang posted breaks of 131 and 84 in his 4-0 success over Saleem Moosa from Mauritius.—APP