Coll yesterday matched Ross Norman’s 1988 run at the tournament, the last time a New Zealand player reached the last four.

He faced the challenge of Egypt’s Marwan ElShorbagy, who had stunned his brother Mohamed in the quarter-finals to leave no former world champions in the draw at the at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex.

Coll was twice forced to come from a game down in the semi-final match before eventually winning the decider.

The New Zealand player celebrated a 9-11, 11-9, 8-11, 11-6, 11-7 victory.

Coll will now set his sights on matching Norman’s accomplishment at the 1986 World Championships, where he claimed victory 

Coll will head into the final as the underdog, with tournament second seed Tarek Momen favourite to earn his first world title.

The Egypian was forced to come from a game down in his match with Germany's Simon Rösner.

Momen bounced back to win 9-11, 11-7, 11-6, 11-6 and book his place in the final.

In 1986, when Norman won in Toulouse, he defeated the legendary Pakistan player Jahangir Khan in the final - ending his run of five consecutive victories. 

"I feel over the moon, it is a pretty surreal feeling, but like I said yesterday, I am just going to enjoy the moment as it is, but then focus on tomorrow because tomorrow is the biggest match possible and I want to firing for that," Coll said.

"Marwan is one of the best in the game at winning quick points and he did exactly that at the start of the first three games.

"I was kicking myself because my gameplan to not let him do that.

"I did not feel like I was playing terrible squash, there were just a few wrong shot selections.

"I didn’t want to get down on myself, I just needed to stay focussed.

"I knew I was doing the right thing, just executing that final shot was very key.

"The important thing was just to stay mentally focussed and believe that I was doing the right thing."