RESULTS: Big Time World Team Squash Championship, Islamabad, Pakistan
Final qualifying round - Pool A:
[12] SOUTH AFRICA bt [13/18] KUWAIT 2-1 (Rowan Smith lost to Nasser Al Ramezi 6-9, 2-9, 4-9; Rodney Durbach bt Abdullah Almezayen 9-6, 9-5, 9-4; Michael Tootill bt Bader Al Hussaini 6-9, 9-6, 6-9, 9-4, 9-3)
[1] ENGLAND bt [19/22] AUSTRIA 3-0 (Peter Nicol bt Stefan Brauneis 9-1, 9-1, 9-2; James Willstrop bt Aqeel Rehman 9-1, 9-0, 9-0; Lee Beachill bt Jakob Dirnberger 9-4, 9-2, 9-4)
Final positions: 1 England, 2 South Africa, 3 Kuwait, 4 Austria
Pool B:
[2] EGYPT bt [11] NEW ZEALAND 3-0 (Wael El Hindi bt Martin Knight 9-2, 9-2, 9-1; Amr Shabana bt Kashif Shuja 9-4, 9-0, 9-0; Karim Darwish bt Callum O'Brien 9-1, 9-0, 9-0)
[13/18] GERMANY bt [19/22] IRAN 3-0 (Patrick Gaessler bt Mohamad Hassan Jafari 9-3, 9-3, 9-0; Stefan Leifels bt Majid Rohani 9-2, 9-4, 9-3; Simon Baker bt Poya Ahmad Abadi 9-2, 9-3, 9-5)
Final positions: 1 Egypt, 2 Germany, 3 New Zealand, 4 Iran
Pool C:
[10] INDIA bt [13/18] IRELAND 2-1 (Siddharth Suchde bt Brian Byrne 9-5, 9-1, 9-2; Ritwik Bhattacharya lost to Liam Kenny 7-9, 3-9, 6-9; Saurav Ghosal bt Arthur Gaskin 6-9, 9-5, 9-0, 9-1)
Final positions: 1 France, 2 India, 3 Ireland
Pool D:
[4] AUSTRALIA bt [9] NETHERLANDS 3-0 (Joseph Kneipp bt Marc Reus 9-0, 9-1, 9-2; Anthony Ricketts bt Laurens Jan Anjema 9-3, 9-3, 9-1; Stewart Boswell bt Tom Hoevenaars 9-0, 9-0, 9-0)
[13/18] FINLAND bt [19/22] USA 2-1 (Hameed Ahmed bt Beau River 0-9, 9-7, 9-5, 9-1; Olli Tuominen bt Preston Quick 9-7, 9-0, 9-1; Matias Tuomi lost to Julian Illingworth 10-8, 9-2, 5-9, 0-9, 2-9)
Final positions: 1 Australia, 2 Netherlands, 3 Finland, 4 USA
Pool E:
[8] WALES bt [13/18] HONG KONG 3-0 (Gavin Jones bt Anson Kwong 9-2, 9-1, 9-2; Alex Gough bt Wai Hang Wong 1-9, 9-2, 9-3, 9-4; David Evans bt Dick Lau 9-3, 9-2, 9-1)
Final positions: 1 Canada, 2 Wales, 3 Hong Kong
Pool F:
[7] PAKISTAN bt [6] MALAYSIA 3-0 (Safeer Ullah Khan bt Mohd Nafiizwan Adnan 9-3, 9-7, 9-0; Mansoor Zaman bt Ong Beng Hee 9-6, 0-9, 9-10, 9-8, 9-3; Farhan Mehboob bt Timothy Arnold 9-4, 9-3, 9-1)
[13/18] SCOTLAND bt [19/22] SPAIN 3-0 (Stuart Crawford bt Alejandro Garbi Caro 1-9, 9-2, 9-2, 9-2; John White bt Iago Cornes 9-2, 9-5, 9-3; Harry Leitch bt David Vidal Villamide 9-7, 9-4, 10-9)
Final positions: 1 Pakistan, 2 Malaysia, 3 Scotland, 4 Spain