Prakash Jiwa


Prakash Jiwa is an English–Indian professional darts player. He has won a tour card through Qualifying School to compete in Professional Darts Corporation events on three occasions.

PDC career

Jiwa qualified in 2010 as an amateur for the UK Open but lost in the first round to Simon Cunningham 6–4. He took part in the PDC Qualifying School in 2011 and earned a Tour Card to compete on the PDC Circuit full-time on the fourth and final day. In 2012 he reached the quarter-finals of two UK Open qualifiers to enter the tournament itself in the second round, where he lost 4–2 to Mark Barilli. Jiwa also reached the quarter-finals of the 12th Players Championship where he was edged out 6–5 by Michael van Gerwen.
In 2013, Jiwa could not advance beyond the last 32 in any tournament and lost 5–1 to Terry Temple in the second round of the UK Open. In September 2014 he won five games to play in the final of the 13th Challenge Tour event, but missed five darts for the title in the deciding leg to be defeated 5–4 by Mark Frost. He matched his best performance on the main PDC tour at the final Players Championship of the year by reaching the quarter-finals in a run which began with a 6–4 victory over five-time world champion Raymond van Barneveld. In the last eight he was whitewashed 6–0 by Peter Wright who averaged 108.65.
Jiwa won a new two-year tour card in January 2015 by finishing joint fifth on the Q School Order of Merit. The only European Tour event he could qualify for was the Dutch Darts Masters and he was defeated 6–4 by John Henderson in the first round. Jiwa did not progress past the last 32 of any tournament during the year.
The last 32 was the furthest he could reach in 2016 too, which he did in two Players Championship events.
In 2017 he had to enter Q School again in order to regain his tour card, and did so on the first day. This was the third time Jiwa had come through the event and he said, with the help of new equipment, he was aiming to get into the top 64 on the Order of Merit in the next two years.

Personal life

Jiwa is based in Rugby, Warwickshire, and works as a warehouse manager.