Kreishh Gurbaxani

Kreishh Gurbaxani (born 23 August 2002) is an Indian snooker player from Mumbai. He earned a two-year card on the World Snooker Tour starting from the 2024–25 snooker season.

Career From Mumbai, he began playing snooker at a young age and was junior snooker champion in his home state of Maharashtra in 2018, at the age of 15 years-old. By 2013 he had begun to be trained by two-time Asian champion Yasin Merchant at the Khar Gymnasium, also the base of fellow professional Ishpreet Singh Chadha, with the pair being described as “prodigies" of Merchant.

He was number one ranked Maharashtra player in 2022. In January 2023, he defeated India No.1 ranked player Kamal Chawla at The All India Snooker Open.

In 2023, He moved to Sheffield, England and practices in Ding Junhui Snooker Academy with former professional player Himanshu Jain and Hong Kong young snooker player Shaun Liu.

He took part in the Oceania/Asia Q School in May and June 2024, and at the second event won a two-year card on to the World Snooker Tour following wins in the latter rounds against Kwok Wai Fung and Muhammad Naseem.

2024/25 He made his professional debut at the 2024 Championship League in Leicester in June 2024. He secured his first win as a professional defeating Andrew Higginson at the 2024 Northern Ireland Open in September 2024. In December 2024 he reached the last-16 of the 2024 Snooker Shoot Out with wins over Xu Si and Ashley Carty.

2025/26 In June 2025, he was drawn to make his season debut in the first round of qualifying for the 2025 Wuhan Open where he was defeated by Stephen Maguire of Scotland 5-1. He was drawn in the round-robin stage of the 2025 Championship League against Wu Yize, Craig Steadman and Wang Yuchen. In April, he recorded a 10-6 loss over Steven Hallworth in the first round of qualifying for the 2026 World Snooker Championship. Having dropped off the tour at the conclusion of the 2025-26 season, he entered Q School in England, where he faced fellow former professional Stuart Carrington.

Performance and rankings timeline Performance Table LegendLQ lost in the qualifying draw#R lost in the early rounds of the tournament(WR = Wildcard round, RR = Round robin)QF lost in the quarter-finalsSF lost in the semi-finalsF lost in the finalW won the tournamentDNQ did not qualify for the tournamentA did not participate in the tournamentWD withdrew from the tournament NH / Not Held means an event was not held.NR / Non-Ranking Event means an event is/was no longer a ranking event.R / Ranking Event means an event is/was a ranking event.MR / Minor-Ranking Event means an event is/was a minor-ranking event.

Career finals Amateur finals: 1 (1 title) Outcome No. Year Championship Opponent in the final ScoreWinner 1. 2020 Indian Under-17 Championship Digvijay Kadian 4–1