Pakistan won the inaugural Peace Cup snooker series 43-33.
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The 21-year-old cueist will be conferred the country's highest sporting honour.
Veteran Alok Kumar and national snooker champion Manan Chandra were included among the probables for the 8-ball and 9-ball pool events at the Doha Asian Games in December.
The India-Pakistan Peace Cup snooker and a kabaddi series between the countries was cancelled owing to the 'tense' situation in the wake of the recent serial blasts in Mumbai.
National champions Alok Kumar (snooker) and Pankaj Advani (billiards) comfortably survived the first day in the Reliance Industries Indian Cue Masters League.
The ace cueist decided to compete in the three-ball game at the Doha Asian Games in December.
The 2005 World billiards champion routed Rupesh Shah 2-0 to maintain his unbeaten run in the Indian Cue Masters League 2005.
Michael White became the youngest ever finalist when he beat the Indian in the semi-final of the World Snooker Grand Prix.
Pankaj Advani has set his eyes on a golden double at the 2006 Doha Asian Games
Former world amateur snooker champion Pankaj Advani clinched the 71st Senior National Billiards championship in Mumbai.
The Asian snooker champion will face a tough battle to repeat his last year's double crown winning feat in the National Billiards and Snooker championship.
India led Pakistan 22-15 after the first session on the second day in the Lawrencepur Challenge Snooker Series in Karachi.
The Indian Olympic Association has decided to include cue sports in the 2010 Commonwealth Games to be held in Delhi
Pankaj Advani has opted out of the Asian Under-21 Snooker Championship to concentrate on academics
Bihar's Niraj Kumar beat last year's quarter-finalist Rupesh Shah to enter the last 16 in the National snooker championship.
They will clash in the snooker final of the National Snooker and Billiards Championship.
The former National Snooker champion won the Indian Cue Masters League 2005 on Sunday.
Pakistan's Imran Shahzad capitalised on the largesse to cut India's lead on day 1 of the \nLawrencepur Snooker Challenge.
The world amateur snooker champion will head to England next year for advance training under the central Government's Talent Search scheme.
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The 12th seeded Indian cueist will meet Chan Kwok Ming of China Hong Kong in the pre-quarter-finals in the 21st Asian Snooker Championship.
Pankaj Advani, Alok Kumar and Yasin Merchant scored their third straight victories make it to the knock-out phase in the Asian Snooker Championship.
The world billiards champion says seventy-five per cent of his game in billiards is because of snooker.
Alok Kumar successfully defended his snooker title at the National Snooker and Billards Championship.
Anuja Thakur retained her crown by defeating her sister and national snooker titlist Meenal by three frames to one in the final of the Bombay Gymkhana women's snooker tournament.
The Indian national champion was beaten by Pakistan's Saleh Mohammad in the knock-out stage of the World Snooker Championships.
Alok Kumar was blanked 0-4 by Australia's Steve Mifsud at the IBSF World Snooker championships.
Alok Kumar beat Thailand's Issara Kachaiwong while Yasin Merchant scored over Imran Shahzad of Pakistan in the pre-quarter-finals of the Asian Snooker Championship.
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Advani, Yasin Merchant, Alok Kumar and two other cueists will make up the Indian team for the snooker series against Pakistan.
The 23-year-old was runner-up at the Junior National snooker championship.
But former champion Yasin Merchant failed to make it, losing in the quarter-finals, in the Asian Snooker Championship.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Sunday
BSFI president P N Roy said Advani's World Championship win will encourage youngsters to take to snooker in greater numbers.
World champion Advani beat Jessada Posukarn of Thailand 5-0 while Mehta shocked eighth seed Mark Allen of Northern Ireland 5-4 in the World under-21 snooker championship.
India's No 1 snooker player Aditya Mehta stayed on course for a gold medal in snooker at the ongoing World Games after a hard-fought victory over pre-tournament favourite Joeeph Perry Raymond of England in the quarter-finals at the quadrennial event at Cali, Colombia.
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Pankaj Advani lost to world No 2 Judd Trump of England in the last-eight of the BetVictor Welsh Open Pro Snooker Series at Newport, Wales, on Friday.
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