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Superb Dhvaj Haria: Dhvaj Haria showed superb touch and stole the thunder rolling in a magnificent effort of 141, currently the top break in the competition, and went on to dash the hopes of young Pinak Anap by snatching a tight 4-3 frame scores in a best-of-7-frame first round match in the CCI Snooker Classic 2024 here on Tuesday.

Haria got the better of Pinak Anap in the Rs 12.5 lakh prize-money event organised by the Cricket Club of India and played at the CCI’s Sir Wilson Jones billiards hall here.

Meanwhile, CCI’s upcoming cueist Krish Bajaj went down fighting against Samar Khandelwal 2-4 in a closely contested first-round encounter. Khandelwal ran up a break of 43 in the opening frame and then raced to a 2-0 lead before Bajaj staged a gallant fightback by winning the next two frames to draw level at 2-all.