MHCL ‘Matka Kings’ displayed great form and worked effectively as a team to record authoritative wins in their opening round of matches in the Otters-BSAM Snooker League at Otters Club, Bandra. The Malabar Hill Club outfit, Matka Kings brooked little opposition from IG ‘Warriors’ and comfortably won both the home and away matches by 3-0 margins in Section-N.
Matka Kings skipper Manav Panchal led by example and with excellent support from Akshat Kejriwal, they both produced steady consistent performances in winning their respective frames in both encounters. In the home tie, Panchal (+20 handicap) tamed Abdur Rehman (+20) 77-52 in the 15-Red singles, first frame before Kejriwal (+40) managed to overcame Sahil Khan (+30) 78-63 also in the 15-Red singles, second frame. Later, Malabar Hill Club’s doubles combination of Krushank and Yash Jogani (+36) defeated Haji Usman and Adil Khan (+30) 97-77 in the 9-Red doubles tie to complete a 3-0 home victory.
In the return, away match, Matka Kings, were once again dominant and quite comfortably won the first three frames to wrap up the match. This time their doubles pair of Kunal Gandhi and Krushank (+33) got the better of Usman and Adil Khan (+30) 73-57 to give Matka Kings the lead. Later, Panchal and Kejriwal successfully won the next two frames against Rehman and Sahil respectively to seal their win and snatch a bonus point to tally five points from this win.
