19 Indians for World billiards

India will be fielding 17 men and two women in the World Billiards championships to be held in Leeds, England, from Oct 20 to 29, according to a Billiards and Snooker Federation of India press release here Thursday.

The squad:

Men: Balachandra Bhaskar, Sourav Kothari, Dhruv Sitwala, Rupesh Shah, Jaiveer Dhingra, Dhvaj Haria, Devendra Joshi, Pankaj Advani, Ashok Shandilya, Alok Kumar, Siddhart Parikh, Arun Agarwal, V Subramaniam, D. Raj Kumar, Aditya Agarwal, Shekhar Surve and Sushrut Pamdia.

Women: Neeta Kothari and R Umadevi.