ONGC - Alok dazzles with Silver and Bronze at the World Billiards Championship
ONGCian Alok Kumar of India put up yet another sterling performance to bag his first ever Silver medal in the 150 points-up short format World Billiards championship held in the Northern Snooker Centre, Leeds, UK from 20-30 October, 2013. Alok Kumar ‘s dream run in the event continued as he remained unbeaten at the group stage and easily got past the challenges of Aditya Agarwal by 4-2, Dhruv Sitwala by 4-1, B. Bhaskar by 4-3 and Devendra Joshi by 5-1 in the last 32, last 16 , quarter final and Semifinal respectively.
In the final however he ran out of steam and bowed down tamely to David Causier of England who fired 4 centuries in the best of 11 encounters and defeated Alok Kumar by 6-1.
Corporate Sports Division