Youngsters fetch accolades for Pakistan
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KARACHI: Pakistan dominated a Junior World Scrabble Championship in Nottingham with their well-developed performances in 7 age categories with a 2013 World Scrabble Youth Champion Moizullah Baig grabbing a second position.
In a three-day affair, Moiz couldn’t pierce upwards from his second place pleasantness some unbending foe from American actor Mattew O’ Conner, who eventually won a pretension with a 20-4 record. Moiz was second with 18 wins and a widespread of 1,037.
Trinidad and Tobago’s Daniel Henriques finished third with 16 wins and a widespread of 1,352.
“We were awaiting Moiz to win,” a Pakistan Scrabble Association (PSA) Director girl Program Tariq Pervez told The Express Tribune from England. “He had tough fitness and also he was really exhausted. He had missed a sight and trafficked all night before reaching for a championships, so of march that takes a toll. But he played brilliantly.”
Pakistan’s Sohaib Sanaullah, Imaad Ali, Ahad Riaz, Abdullah Abbasi and Saim Waqar done it into a tip 10 of a U21 event.
Pervez combined that this has been a many successful run during a Junior World Championship by any nation so far, where categories starting from U10, U12, U14, U16 and U18 were all won by Pakistanis besides a 4 opposite annals during a championship.
“It has been a good uncover for us and people from other countries are observant that they see Pakistan winning universe scrawl in a subsequent few years. It is a good feeling to see a girl players doing so well,” pronounced Pervez, who has been one of a PSA veterans to run a girl scrawl module to a best potential.
The warn of a contest has been Happy Home tyro Hamza Naeem, who competent for a youth World Championship for a initial time and won a U14 eventuality too.
“It is an honour to win for Pakistan,” pronounced a 13-year-old. “My relatives are really happy too, and it was a tough tournament. we don’t consider we had any easy match, though we feel we worked tough on word investigate and that helped. we usually began personification scrawl during propagandize one and a half years ago, however now we wish to win some-more tournaments in a future.”
Ahad won a U18 event, newly crowned inhabitant champion Sohaib Sanaullah took a pretension in a U16 category, while Imaad and Moonis Khan shielded their titles successfully from final year in U12 and U10 events.
Wali M Khubaib won a esteem for scoring top move, Taha Mirza got a endowment for top measure off a non-bingo, Simal Linjara had a top compare measure of 650 and Monis took a esteem for top win domain (484) in a championship.
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