Snooker

[Bazile]

Just been watching the snooker between Higgins and Hawkins .
I'm not up on all the rules of snooker

Higgins was snookered on the green , played a shot but missed the green .
Hawkins after deliberating made Higgins play .

However why wasn't the green and white balls put back in the position that they were before Higgins played the shot ?
Instead Higgins carried on playing from where the balls ended up after he attempted to get out of the snooker .

[angie55]

The balls are only replaced if the referee "calls a miss" and the player asks for the balls to be replaced. In this case, the referee didn't call a miss. The referee can't call a miss if a snooker is required either before or after the shot has been taken.

[Buenchico]

I didn't see it but if the referee judged that Higgins had made the best possible attempt to play the green it was only 'a foul' (not 'a foul and a miss'), in which case (if the cue ball was still snookered) Hawkins could either take a 'free ball' (from the position that the balls came to rest) or require Higgins to play again (also from that position).
[Rule 12(f)]

If the referee judged that Higgins hadn't made his best effort to strike the green he would have declared 'a foul and a miss'. Under those circumstances, once he'd decided to make Higgins play again, Hawkins could choose whether to leave the balls as they'd ended up or to have them replaced as they were before.
[Rule 14(b)]

[Buenchico]

Oops!

I forgot the link:
http://www.wpbsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/official-rules-of-the-game.pdf

[Jackdaw33]

Chico, you don't half talk a load of balls at times.

[Buenchico]

Only "at times"???