JAKARTA: Bowlers Timmy Tan, Rafiq Ismail and Ahmad Muaz Fishol staged a superb comeback to retain the men’s trio silver at the Jakabaring Bowling Center in Palembang on Thursday.

They combined for a sizzling 751 pinfalls in the their last games for a 4,235 total to jump from fifth to second behind runaway winners Japan.

Tomoyuki Sasaki, Shogo Wada, Shusaku Sato chalked up 4,344 pinfalls for the gold while Singapore posted 4,226 for bronze.

Another Malaysian team comprising Alex Liew, Adrian Ang and Syafiq Ridhwan Abdul Malek failed to build on their lead in the opening games to finish ninth on 4,147.

Timmy was also in the men's trio that won silver in Incheon, South Korea, four years ago together with Syafiq and Zulmazran Zulkifli.

It’s Malaysia second podium in bowling after Esther Cheah, Syaidaful Afifah Badrul Hamidi and Siti Safiyah Amirah Abdul Rahman delivered the first gold for the contingent on Wednesday.