Advani leads Chennai Strikers to easy victory in Cue Masters League

Chennai’s Icon player and India’s super star Pankaj Advani notched up two sweet victories, the first in the mixed snooker doubles in the company of Vidya Pillai and the second in the Icon match, the snooker singles, against Kelly Fisher. 

His team-mate Dharmender Lilly too was on a roll, winning his singles pool match against Malkeet Singh and then partnering with the in-form Pillai in the pool doubles. 

The 16-time world champion, Advani, showed his class as he rounded up the first frame easily, running away to a 32-0 lead; Kelly fought back to 19 but ran out of time; she put up a better display in the second frame, jumping to 26-6 lead as Advani made a couple of unforced errors. 

But with just one red and all the colours left on the table, he went on a pocketing spree to take the frame 36-26 and the crucial point. 

He was ably complemented by Pillai in the mixed doubles, as they trounced the pair of Kelly Fisher and Manan Chandra 20-5, 22-18. 

Delhi Don’s Manan Chandra got his team the solitary point, getting the better of Faisal Khan in the snooker singles shootout. But by then, the fat lady had already sung.