Cricket Club of India’s Hassan Badami dished out a steady performance and enjoyed a good roll of the balls and went on to register a straight-frame 4-0 victory against Radio Club’s Cherag Ramakrishnan in a semi-final match of the Senior men’s snooker event of the BSAM organized Maharashtra State Junior Snooker and Senior Snooker & Billiards Selection (leg 1) Championship – 2019, played at the Bombay Gymkhana billiards room on Wednesday.
Cricket Club of India’s Hassan Badami scored a 4-0 win against Radio Club’s Cherag Ramakrishnan in a semi-final match of the Senior men’s snooker event of the BSAM organized Maharashtra State Junior Snooker and Senior Snooker & Billiards Selection (leg 1) Championship .
Badami who has been in superb winning form maintained the momentum as he adjusted better to the table and settled down nicely, while Ramakrishnan was not his usual self as he unable to find his touch and struggled with his potting. The lanky Badami did well to grab every chance to construct a couple of tidy breaks which helped him to pocket the opening two frames to race to a 2-0 lead.
The third frame turned out to a cat and mouse affair as both Badami and Ramakrishnan were extra cautious and tested each other’s nerves with safety play. But, Badmi with a bit of luck got the openings to take control with some small useful breaks won the frame to stretch his lead to 3-0.
In the fourth frame, Badami compiled a run of 36 to marginally take the lead. Cherag who was still struggling to get into a groove surrendered after missing another simple pot. Badami clinched the match with the frame scores reading 55-25, 59-25, 57-24 and 48-10 in his favour.
In the final, Badami will meet the winner of the second semi-final to be played between Rayaan Razni of |Radio Club and Vishal Vaya of Club Aquaria on Friday morning. The final will be played later in the evening.
Results – semi-finals: Hassan Badmi (CCI) beat Cherag Ramakrishnan (Radio Club) 4-0 (55-25, 59-25, 57-24, 48-10).