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The Six Red World Snooker Championship has been officially removed from the calendar on Tuesday with Northern Ireland Open champion Mark Allen claiming he knew it had been cancelled last week.

Stephen Maguire won the last staging of the invitational event in 2019 with an 8-6 win against fellow Scot John Higgins, but will have to wait for an alternative time to defend his title with the scheduled dates of 5-10 September abandoned by local organisers. "The Six Red World Championship, which was due to take place in Thailand from September 5 to 10, has been postponed," said World Snooker Tour in a statement on Tuesday. "Our partners in Thailand have advised us of the postponement and we are now working with them on finding new dates. "Unfortunately this postponement is due to circumstances beyond our control." Former Masters holder Allen has berated the delay in announcing the news after it became common knowledge that the event would not be taking place via email. "I saw an email from the organiser to a player saying the event was off," said Allen in an interview with the Metro. "I contacted someone on the Players’ Board asking why we haven’t been told. He said we’d hear something. The players got an email not even saying it was off, just not to book anything because they were still working on it.