Kothari loses but his team wins in BPL Snooker

Ace cueist Sourav Kothari suffered a setback but led his team RKG Snooker Champs in defeating City Knights 4-3 on the opening day of the Bengal Premier League here today.
Kothari lost to Himanshu Jain 49-61 but in the next match Manish Jain beat Manan Chandra 54-26 to make it 1-1.
RKG then won successive matches in the doubles to make it 3-1. The Jain and Benay Agarwala pair got the better of Chandra and Rajesh Tulsian 69-40 before Kothari and Abhishek Kedia beat Himanshu Jain and Ravi Goenka 44-29.
City Knights pulled one back as Benay Agarwala lost to Rajesh Tulsian 58-65 but Saif Khan beat Rohan Gandhi 43-09 in a dominant display in the next rubber to clinch the issue.

Kothari had another setback when he and Anil Poddar lost to Himanshu Manan Chandra 29-85 but they had already settled the match.
In another match, Rockets defeated Alpha Cueists 4-3 while Pappu Penguin beat Cue Magicians in an identical result.
Each team has to play 9 league matches and the top four will move to next round where No. 3 and 4 will play the eliminator round and loser of 1 & 2 will play the winner of 3 & 4 to meet the first finalist.