Dharminder Lilly beats Muhammad Asif in a thriller finish at the World snooker championship in Egypt

Dharminder Lilly

Sharm-El-Sheikh (Egypt), June 23 (IANS) India's Dharminder Lilly pulled off a sensational 4-3 victory against former world champion Muhammad Asif of Pakistan for his third consecutive win in the league phase of the IBSF 6 Reds World snooker championship here.

From two frames down Sunday, Lilly fought back to level at 2-all with a break of 66 in fourth and won the next for a 3-2 advantage. Muhammad, however, claimed the sixth and had the seventh all sewn up, but a miss on the last pink saw Lilly sink the colour to take the match 4-3.

Also maintaining his unbeaten run was Ketan Chawla who recorded his fourth straight win and like Lilly tops his group.

In the team championship (15 reds), the pairs of Sourav Kothari-Shivam Arora (India-3) and Kamal Chawla-Lilly (India-4) chalked up their fourth and third win, respectively.

The results (India matches):

6 Reds (Individual) -

Men:

Group A: Laxman Rawat beat Hassan Kerde (Australia) 4-1.

Group B: Ketan Chawla beat Mustafa Alnemer (Saudi Arabia) 4-1.

Group C: Nadeem Ahmed lost to Walid Hamdy 1-4 (Egypt).

Group R: Faisal Khan beat Yaser Elsherbiny (Egypt) 4-2.

Group S: Kamal Chawla beat Keith Sheldrick (Ireland) 4-1.

Group U: Dharmender Lilly beat Muhammad Asif (Pakistan) 4-3.

Group AD: Syed Saleem lost to Kacper Filipiak (Poland) 2-4.

Women:

Group C: Indira Gowda lost to Siripaporn Nuanthakhamjan (Thailand) 1-3.

Group D: Neena Praveen beat Samah Alhallak (Syria) 3-0.

Team Championship (15 Reds):

Men:

Group B: India-3 (Sourav Kothari/Shivam Arora) beat Syria 4-1.

Group C: India-2 (Kamal Chawla/Dharmender Lilly) beat Russia-2 4-1.

Group G: India-4 (Ketan Chawla/Varun Madan) beat Morocco-1 4-1.

Women:

Group A: India-1 (Vidya Pillai/Amee Kamani) lost to Egypt 5-0.

India-4 (Neena Praveen/Indira Gowda) lost to Australia-2 2-3.

Group B: India-3 (Umadevi Revanna/Arantxa Sanchis) lost to Thailand 2-3.