Bengali Babus Sourav Kothari and Shahbaz Khan overcame Towering Titans Geet Sethi and Aditya Mehta in an exciting Group 'B' tie to fashion their first win in three outings that earned them six points and kept their hopes alive in the competition.

Babus snatched a vital 2-1 lead in the best-of-five frames contest when in the third frame Khan potted a brilliant long red with the cue ball kissing the cushion and positioned for the black before clearing till the pink.

Enjoying good form, Kothari fired a decisive break of 80 in the fourth frame that took it away from the Titans, who earned two points. Kothari was set to make a clearance of 105 but he missed an easy green.

“We had to perform well today, especially after losing our opening two matches,” explained Khan. “Sourav's break was excellent and it came at the opportune time, just when we needed it. We are down in the group and we need these points to stay alive.”

Steady Eddies Rupesh Shah and Rafath Habib fashioned their second win in three outings in Group 'A' after overcoming Cool Cats Lucky Vatnani and Amit Saboo, who crashed to their third loss in as many matches. Eddies earned three points, while Cats earned two.