Looking impossibly boyish, we have seen him over the years in one of these three attitudes—chalking his cue in quiet contemplation, eyes fixed on coloured orbs and the pockets th...
From The Far Pavilion
As Rohit scores a zero in a practice match and mulls unhappily his suitability to Tests; as Rishabh Pant cops blame for playing irresponsible shots and has probably added another h...
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Cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni plays billiards at Jharkhand State Cricket Association (JSCA) stadium, in Ranchi.
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Cleaning The Table
Chances are that you’ve fooled around a pool table in a pub, miscuing those coloured orbs merrily, happy with the satisfying ‘clicks’ and the rare ‘pocket’. Imagine a bi...
World Billiards Champion Sourav Kothari being welcomed by his mother on his arrival at NSCBI Airport in, Kolkata, Thursday, Nov 1, 2018.
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Pankaj Advani, Cue Sports, 2005
Like Anand, Advani, 33, is another sportsperson who won a bagful of world titles, but to tepid publicity and accolade. The first of his 19 world titles came in 2003, when the then ...
President Ram Nath Kovind confers Padma Bhushan to cueist Pankaj Advani during the Padma Awards 2018 function at Rastrapati Bhawan in New Delhi.
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Cueist Pankaj Advani during the group A encounter of 85th Senior (Men) National Billiards Championship 2018 at Karnataka State Billiards Association (KSBA) in Bangalore.
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Pankaj Advani of Chennai Strikers in action against Hyderabad Hustlers in Indian Cue Masters League in Ahmedabad.
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Cueist Pankaj Advani poses with the Asian Team Championship trophy which they won at Bishek (Kyrgyzstan), during a felicitation function at the SAI-BSFI National Cue Sports Academy...
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Cueists Pankaj Advani and Vidhya Pillai pose during a felicitation event organised by Karnataka State Billiards Association in Bengaluru. Advani won the gold medal and Vidhya won...
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Michael White of Welsh with the winning trophy of Indian Open World ranking snooker tournament in Mumbai on Saturday. Michael beat Ricky Walden of England in the final.
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Pankaj Advani poses with the Trophy after winning Senior National Billiards Championship 2015 in Kolkata.
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Billiards player Pankaj Advani, who won the World Billiards Championship in Leeds, England is welcomed by family members in Bengaluru.
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Eight time world champion Pankaj Advani during the announcement of Indian open world ranking snooker championship in Mumbai.
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Straight At The Head
A quiet setting. A cluster of lights over the green velvet of the billiards table, whence repaired Ian Chappell with Pankaj Advani for a post-pra...
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Snooker player Pankaj Advani, who won 6 Red Snooker titles at Sharm-el-Sheikh in Egypt, is welcomed by his mother, brother and fans on his arrival at the International Airport in B...
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Chinese Snooker player Ding Junhui and Indian Snooker player Aditya Mehta with their trophies after the final match of the World Ranking Snooker Indian open 2013, in New Delhi.
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India's leading cueist Aditya Mehta continued his dream run in the Indian Open as he rewrote history by entering the semi-final of a major ranking event, defeating compatriot Panka...
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(L-R) Indian snooker players Yasin Merchant, Adithya Mehta and Brijesh Damani showing the silver medals won by them in men's team snooker event of 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou, Ch...
The IBSF Team Snooker win takes Pankaj Advani's world title tally to a phenomenal 23 while Aditya Mehta claimed his maiden at a time when his future is being doubted due to health issues
In a repeat of last year’s final against local favourite Nay Thway Oo, Pankaj Advani re-enacted the one-sided match with the same eventual outcome as well as identical scorelines of 6-2
The 10 Reds Asian Tour Snooker tournament was scheduled to be held in Bengaluru in the last week of March but has been postponed after the organisers failed to guarantee visas for Pakistani cueists
The former national and Asian Billiards champion was pipped at the post for the coveted World Billiards crown on two occasions in the last two years, including a loss to Gilchrist in the 2016 final in Bengaluru.
His achievements are well documented but it is still worth mentioning that he is getting better with age and has won seven world titles in the last four years.