He defeated England’s Ashmore 7-1 to win the title. Khatri additionally bagged World Scrabble Championship bronze earlier
Waseem Khatri after successful the Late Fowl Problem event. PHOTO COURTESY: Pakistan Scrabble Affiliation
Pakistan’s Waseem Khatri topped Late Fowl Problem event champion in Ghana.
He continued his nice kind on the occasion performed on the closing day of the World Scrabble Championship on Monday.
Waseem, who narrowly missed the ultimate of the World Championship, confirmed no mercy within the closing occasion of the championship taking the title with a 7-1 file beating England’s John Ashmore within the closing sport by an enormous margin.
Nigeria’s Chinidu Thorpe completed second, whereas Ashmore took the third place.
The Visitor of Honor for this ceremony was Pakistan Scrabble Affiliation’s Tariq Pervez and he distributed the prizes to the winners.
The Pakistan staff will return to Karachi on nineteenth November after a extremely profitable tour.
Earlier, Khatri additionally clinched the bronze medal on the World Scrabble Championship performed in Accra, Ghana.
Pakistan has gained the youth championship a number of occasions however that is the most effective ever end by a Pakistani participant within the grownup’s world championship.
Waseem gained 22 of the 32 video games and was extraordinarily unfortunate to overlook the ultimate although he had the identical variety of wins because the second finalist Nigel Richards. Nonetheless, he missed out resulting from a decrease unfold.
This efficiency will propel Waseem to his highest ever world rating.
The Pakistan staff included Waseem, Hassan Hadi, Aehzam Siddiqui, M. Inayatullah, and Tariq Pervez. They completed fourth within the championship.
That is greatest end result for Pakistan at this degree regardless of a depleted squad as a result of absence of a number of high gamers.
Greater than 200 gamers from 28 international locations throughout 5 continents took half within the championship.
The most effective of seven closing was performed between two former world champions Adam Logan of Canada and Nigel Richards of New Zealand.
Logan claimed the world title with a 4-2 win.
