At 52, former World No 7 billiards player Nalin Patel is still potting away to glory. The ace cueist won the bronze medal at the English Open Billiards Championship held recently at the Cambridge Snooker Centre in England.


Nalin Patel poses with his English Open Billiards Championship bronze medal at the Bombay Gymkhana yesterday. Pic/Atul Kamble 

Patel defeated England's Phil Mumford 500-287 in the quarter-finals before going on to lose to world champion Peter Gilchrist (374-603) and finishing with the bronze. Top seed Gilchrist eventually lost to England's No 2 seed David Causier 471-534 in the final.