KARACHI: Former Pakistan No 1 Babar Masih stormed back from a deficit thrice to whip England’s Wayne Brown by 5-4 frames to post first victory in the Sangsom 6-Reds world snooker championship which is in progress in Bangkok on Tuesday.

According to the results made available here, the victory came after two successive defeats in group E which envisaged six players.

The Rawalpindi-based cueist after a brisk start by winning the opening frame 29-19 conceded back-to-back frames 14-39, 0-50 to trail 1-2 in the best of nine match which include a break of 50 in the third frame.

Babar replied it by piling a break of 51 to win the fourth frame 58-0 in similar fashion to drew level two-all.

Again he fell into arrears losing the fifth frame 16-57 only to bounce back to clinch the next 66-1 and tied three-all.

The Pakistani once again lost the seventh frame 38-51 but this proved to be the last defeat as he not only levelled the score four-all but also won the decisive frame to clinch the match the scores being 62-0, 28-23.

Playing his second match of the day, the Pakistani stretched Darren Morgan of Wales to limits before bowing out 4-5. The latter won the duel 6-34, 28-20, 48-17, 57-9, 36-31, 13-43, 0-55, 33-45, 33-31.

Earlier on Monday, he suffered 1-5 defeat at the hands of Ratchapol-Pu-Ob-Orm of Thailand 67-0, 65-0, 67-0, 22-34, 59-19, 62-0 and went down to Stuart Bingham of England by the identical score 66-0, 48-0, 71-0, 0-46, 37-35, 65-0.

He is scheduled to play his last league match against Ryan Day of the Wales on Wednesday.

Top four cueists from each group will advance to the last 32 knockout round.

Results:

Babar Masih bt Wayne Brown (England) 5-4 (29-19, 14-39, 0-50, 58-0, 16-57, 66-1, 38-51, 62-0, 28-23); Darren Morgan (Wales) bt Babar Masih 5-4 (6-34, 28-20, 48-17, 57-9, 36-31, 13-43, 0-55, 33-45, 33-31).

Monday’s results:

Ratchapol - Pu - Ob - Orm (Thailand) bt Babar Masih 5-1 (67-0, 65-0, 67-0, 22-34, 59-19, 62-0); Stuart Bingham (England) bt Babar Masih 5-1 (66-0, 48-0, 71-0, 0-46, 37-35, 65-0,).

Published in Dawn September 7th, 2016