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World title and a hat-trick India’s Pankaj Advani won the world Billiards Championship held at Qawra, in Malta, in March, 2005. He beat compatriot and national champion Devendra Joshi, on a point format 6-2. It was the third successive win for the 20-year-old youth from Bangalore. In February, he lifted the Asian Billiards Championship with an impressive 5-0 victory over Praput of Thailand; in January he had defeated Devendra Joshi by four points in the National Billiards Championship. |

