Indian cueists led by Geet Sethi, Devendra Joshi, Pankaj Advani and Alok kumar among others, on Thursday advanced to Group Stage II of World Billiards Championship, being played at Leeds in England. The others to advance in the event included B Bhaskar, Rupesh Shah, Sourav Kothari, and Dhruv Sitwala. Stage II is a group stage again with four groups of four players each, in the playing format 750 Up.