Muhammad Zaheer ousts Muhammad Afzal Baba to win 2012 Dolphin Punjab Cup Senior Snooker Championship

Muhammad Zaheer ousts Muhammad Afzal Baba to win 2012 Dolphin Punjab Cup Senior Snooker Championship

Lahore’s Muhammad Zaheer was outstanding at the Dolphin-9 Snooker Club in Rizwan Arcade, Rawalpindi in the final match up of 2012 Dolphin Punjab Cup Senior Snooker Championship against
Muhammad Afzal Baba of Gujranwala. The Lahorian cueman defeated Baba in an easy final clash by the score line of 7-1. He did not give Baba a chance to get near the table and score another frame win.

Zaheer dominated the game in the first two frames and totally unsettled his opponent winning both sets comfortably to take an early 2-0 lead in the match. Baba bounced back into the game
and moved within one frame at 2-1 after clinching the third set. After that, it was all Zaheer show at the arena, as the champ took five consecutive frames to claim the tournament title.

The chief guests of the night were Pakistan Billiard and Snooker Association President Alamgir Sheikh and Islamabad Snooker Association President Dr Shahzad Waseem who gave the players
a Rs0.3 million prize money. The host club, Dolphin-9 Snooker Club, awarded Zaheer with a return ticket of Dubai.

The Third Dolphin Punjab Cup Senior Snooker Championship ended successfully but the spectators were especially not happy with the organisation of the tournament and the arena, which left
many questions needed on the performance of the host club.

The club arena is still under construction which troubled not only the players but the audience too, as the place was quite dusty. The organisers were making over the top claims about
the organisation of the arena but they failed to fulfil their big mouth.

However, the two-time national champion and Asian medal winner Shahram Changezi and Dr Imran failed to qualify for national championship going to be held in Karachi next month just because
of the uncomfortable playing atmosphere.

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Posted by Zeeshan Gohar on Jan 23 2012. Filed under Sports. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry