International Championship Qualifiers Day 3: Pag's Punts

After a winless couple of days in the International Championship qualifiers, Andrew Pagett is back for more with another punt for Friday's play. Today so far we've seen a couple of major shocks as Robert Milkins was beaten 6-4 by Darryl Hill, and Stephen Maguire was simply thrashed 6-2 by Noppon Saengkham. Sean O'Sullivan also scored a nice 6-3 win against Robin Hull and Jack Lisowski showed signs of the work he's put in with Terry Griffiths by beating Hossein Vafei Ayouri 6-3.

So after all of that, there are still 4 games to be played this evening including a man that features regularly on the blog in Shaun Murphy, but it's time to look ahead to Friday's play with Andrew's bet.

What we've got here is an interesting five fold, where Pag's gone for the outsider in two very close games to call with Michael Georgiou to beat Dechawat Poomjaeng and Crucible qualifier Craig Steadman against Li Hang. Other than that, he's chosen Mark Joyce to beat Hamza Akbar, in Akbar' first professional match, Anthony McGill to beat James Wattana and Rory McLeod to beat Daniel Wells as his other 3 selections. I think it's a brave shout that had the best odds with BetVictor when Andrew put this on yesterday so it's worth having a check again possibly.

Other than that, we'll have the final Pag's Punts of the week tomorrow evening before Saturday's final day of International qualifying.