Luke Littler beats Luke Humphries in decider after freak injury to world No1’s finger in 2nd Premier League Darts night

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LUKE LITTLER beat Luke Humphries in the second night of the Premier League Darts.

The two Lukes went head-to-head in the final in Glasgow after surviving scares in the earlier rounds.

PALuke Littler won the second night of the Premier League Darts[/caption]

PALittler head to beat Luke Humphries in a deciding leg[/caption]

PAHumphries had to battle a finger injury[/caption]

PAIt was Littler’s first Premier League Darts victory this year[/caption]

Humphries had to battle a cut on the middle finger of his throwing hand during the match.

The first leg went the way of the world no.2 after the world no.1 missed two chances on doubles.

Leading after one leg, Littler, 18, then was unable to make it two from two as the injured Humphries hit back.

Littler then took the third leg with a brilliant check out from 170 and even pulled out the big fish celebration.

Humphries won the fourth leg as neither player could stay ahead for long.

The trend continued as Littler won the fifth before Humphries won the sixth and then the teenager took the seventh with neither able to break the other’s throw.

With a maximum of three legs left, it was still all even, with both players winning four each.

There was finally a mistake in the ninth leg as Littler bust, which allowed Humphries to break.

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Littler managed to break back and win the next leg to set up a winner-takes-all final.

And it was the world champion to claim victory on the second night of the Premier League darts.

PAHumphries had won the first night of the competition[/caption]

Littler reached the final of night two after a couple of incredible games.

He first pulled off an epic comeback against Rob Cross in which he survived being 5-1 down and three match darts.

The teenager continued his good form from the backend of that game in the semi-final against Michael van Gerwen.

Littler destroyed his World Championship final opponent 6-2 in a game that never looked in doubt.

Humphries, on the other hand, pulled off two comebacks as he beat both Chris Dobey and Gerwyn Price despite being 4-2 down in both games.

List of all-time Darts World Champions

BELOW is a list of darts world champions by year.

The list does not include winners from the pre-Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) era or BDO world champions.

That means Raymond van Barneveld, for example, is only listed once – Barney also won four BDO titles – and none of Eric Bristow’s five BDO titles are included.

1994 – Dennis Priestley
1995 – Phil Taylor
1996 – Phil Taylor (2)
1997 – Phil Taylor (3)
1998 – Phil Taylor (4)
1999 – Phil Taylor (5)
2000 – Phil Taylor (6)
2001 – Phil Taylor (7)
2002 – Phil Taylor (8)
2003 – John Part
2004 – Phil Taylor (9)
2005 – Phil Taylor (10)
2006 – Phil Taylor (11)
2007 – Raymond van Barneveld
2008 – John Part (2)
2009 – Phil Taylor (12)
2010 – Phil Taylor (13)
2011 – Adrian Lewis
2012 – Adrian Lewis (2)
2013 – Phil Taylor (14)
2014 – Michael van Gerwen
2015 – Gary Anderson
2016 – Gary Anderson (2)
2017 – Michael van Gerwen (2)
2018 – Rob Cross
2019 – Michael van Gerwen (3)
2020 – Peter Wright
2021 – Gerwyn Price
2022 – Peter Wright (2)
2023 – Michael Smith
2024 – Luke Humphries
2025 – Luke Littler

Most World Titles

14 – Phil Taylor
3 – Michael van Gerwen
2 – John Part, Adrian Lewis, Gary Anderson, Peter Wright
1 – Dennis Priestley, Raymond van Barneveld, Rob Cross, Gerwyn Price, Michael Smith, Luke Humphries, Luke Littler

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