2012 Wroclaw, Poland

A superb set of 1236 was not enough for Hareb Al Mansoori of the UAE to overtake Marshall Kent of the USA at the top of the men’s leader board in the 48th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup in Wroclaw, Poland. Kent’s total pinfall of 3453 – a 230.2 average – puts him in the lead with just one set of five qualifying games to go.

We did see a new high game posted. First, Hareb shot 298 and then, in the final squad of the day, home player Pawel Bielski got the first 11 but pulled his final shot very wide to leave two pins. Pawel already has one Bowling World Cup perfect game to his credit from Singapore in 2004. So we are still waiting for the first 300 from the men.

Apart from Hareb, one other player posted a 1200 set: Syafiq Ridhwan Abdul Malek of Malaysia shot 1200 exactly.

In addition we had ten 1100+ sets:  Marshall Kent (USA) 1192, Gyorgy Bodis (Hungary) 1178, Andres Gomez (Colombia) 1153, Takashi Taniai (Japan) 1138, Guy Caminsky (South Africa) 1135, Leonidas Maragkos (Greece) 1135, Mykhaylo Kalika (Ukraine) 1115, Pascal Winternheimer (Germany) 1111, Matt Chamberlain (England) 1110 and Sergey Andreev (Russia) 1110.

At this point the cut for the 24 players to go through to the second round is 3139, a 209.27 average, with Tony O’Hare of Northern Ireland just on the cut, 21 pins ahead of Rowan Jay Bautista of the Philippines.
The men will play their final block of five on Thursday afternoon and evening with the second round taking place on Friday.

All results are available on Results page and fans can follow their favourite player’s frame by frame scores through the live scores, accessible through the web site.

The tournament is taking place at the Sky Bowling centre in Wroclaw, Poland. The finals will take place on Saturday 1st December.