Tun Ameerul Luqman Al-Hakim's silver at the Asian championships came a day after Gillian Lim had won the women's singles title. (Facebook pic)KUALA LUMPUR: National bowler Tun Ameerul Luqman Al-Hakim came agonisingly close to a gold medal, falling just seven pins short at the Asian tenpin bowling championships in Doha, Qatar, today.
Tun Hakim knocked down 1,383 pins over six games to settle for the silver in the men's singles, behind gold medallist Abdulrazzaq Mohammad of Kuwait, who registered 1,390 pinfalls. Hong Kong’s Michael Mak Cheuk Yin took bronze with 1,381 pinfalls.
Tun Hakim, 27, had surged into the lead after the fourth game but saw his gold medal hopes dented by a costly fifth-game slump, managing only 165 pinfalls, his lowest score of the competition.
