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Michael van Gerwen 5-5 Rob Cross
Dan Dawson
Commentator on Sky Sports
This would be some performance to deny Michael van Gerwen.
Summary
Follow text updates from night 14 of Premier League Darts
RESULT: Luke Littler 6-4 Rob Cross in final
Littler thrashes Michael Smith 6-1 in first semi-final to secure spot in play-offs on 23 May
Quarter-final results: Wright 4-6 Smith, Littler 6-5 Aspinall, Van Gerwen 5-6 Cross
Humphries received bye to semi-finals after Gerwyn Price withdraws from night due to back injury
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Cross forces a decider!published at 20:44 British Summer Time 2 May
Michael van Gerwen 5-5 Rob Cross
Rob Cross comes from nowhere in this leg to break! We've got another last-leg decider!
Back-to-back two treble visits give with 52 to win it and he hits double 16 at the second attempt.
Cross has the darts for the decider...
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Michael van Gerwen 5-4 Rob Cross
John Part
Former PDC world champion on Sky SportsMichael van Gerwen's finishing has been extraordinarily good tonight. This is probably the best he's finished in a while.
MVG breaks to close on in...published at 20:43 British Summer Time 2 May
Michael van Gerwen 5-4 Rob Cross
Michael van Gerwen needed a break and he gets it!
He moved ahead in the leg and this time Rob Cross can't get the ton-plus finish to deny him.
Left with 70, MVG is unerring and is now just a hold of throw from the semi-final.
Easy hold for MVGpublished at 20:41 British Summer Time 2 May
Michael van Gerwen 4-4 Rob Cross
Something of a rarity in this match, a comfortable hold.
Michael van Gerwen will happily take it, though, after an off leg from Rob Cross.
The Englishman can't afford to be off it for long given how this one has gone so far.
Postpublished at 20:39 British Summer Time 2 May
Michael van Gerwen 3-4 Rob Cross
Dan Dawson
Commentator on Sky SportsRob Cross does have the comfort of knowing that he's only got to hold this throw to win this game.
Michael van Gerwen will know he can win legs in 11 or 12 darts, though.
Cross takes out 116published at 20:39 British Summer Time 2 May
Michael van Gerwen 3-4 Rob Cross
A big hold for Rob Cross as he takes out 116 just after Michael van Gerwen missed bullseye on the wire for a 167.
The standard in this match has been sensational!
MVG holdspublished at 20:37 British Summer Time 2 May
Michael van Gerwen 3-3 Rob Cross
The scoring has been fantastic so far in this one - both players are averaging 110 and above!
Michael van Gerwen holds this time with a 14-darter - and he needed to be clinical on the checkout because Rob Cross was right there with him again.
This could go either way.
11-darter for Crosspublished at 20:36 British Summer Time 2 May
Michael van Gerwen 2-3 Rob Cross
Brilliant darts from both players but it is Rob Cross who edges this leg.
A pair of 140s and then a 177 set-up for the Englishman, with Michael van Gerwen going 177, 137 after a treble-less first visit.
MVG can only watch on, though, as Cross finds double 16 to move ahead again.
MVG draws levelpublished at 20:33 British Summer Time 2 May
Michael van Gerwen 2-2 Rob Cross
Just like that, we're all square again.
Michael van Gerwen hits double six for a 13-dart hold and suddenly the momentum is with the Dutchman.
How will Rob Cross respond?
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Michael van Gerwen 1-2 Rob Cross
Dan Dawson
Commentator on Sky SportsThat was a brilliant set up and brilliant checkout from Michael van Gerwen.
MVG breaks backpublished at 20:31 British Summer Time 2 May
Michael van Gerwen 1-2 Rob Cross
Superb response from Michael van Gerwen.
After filling up the treble 19 for a 171 set-up, he gets the 98 checkout to bring it back on throw.
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Michael van Gerwen 0-2 Rob Cross
Dan Dawson
Commentator on Sky SportsRob Cross is looking sharp at the start of this game.
Cross breakspublished at 20:30 British Summer Time 2 May
Michael van Gerwen 0-2 Rob Cross
After another bounce off, Michael van Gerwen is forced to make some running repairs to one of his darts.
That seems to break his rhythm and Rob Cross is happy to take advantage.
Double 18 hit and the 2018 world champ is two legs up early.
Cross holdspublished at 20:27 British Summer Time 2 May
Michael van Gerwen 0-1 Rob Cross
Rob Cross had the advantage with the darts but a bounce out for Michael van Gerwen gives him even more of a cushion.
That's just as well as he misses three darts at double. But he gets the fourth - double six - for a 15-dart hold.
Postpublished at 20:25 British Summer Time 2 May
Michael van Gerwen v Rob Cross
Michael van Gerwen's name is chanted enthusiastically as ever, perhaps even with a bit more gusto then usual by the crowd in Aberdeen.
I fancy the fact he isn't English - and is playing an Englishman - probably works in his favour...
It'll be up to Rob Cross to try and quieten the crowd. I'd say silence but that feels too much of an ask for any player!
'You have to pull your finger out'published at 20:23 British Summer Time 2 May
Michael van Gerwen v Rob Cross
Michael van Gerwen talking to Sky Sports: "The games are all really close and loads of people are beating people all the time. It is a tight field and you have to pull out your finger.
"I need to concentrate on my own game. With Gerwyn Price not being here tonight it doesn't really help the situation but it is what it is."
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Wayne Mardle
Former World Championship semi-finalist on Sky SportsMichael van Gerwen has played horribly throughout the Premier League but he's won four nights. That is incredible.
Could any other player have done that? I don't think so.
Luke Littler and Luke Humphries need to be near their best to win but Michael van Gerwen doesn't seem to need to be. It's a good quality to have but it is not one you want to rely on.
Quarter-final #3published at 20:20 British Summer Time 2 May
Michael van Gerwen v Rob Cross
Image source, BBC/ GettyOur third - and tonight, final - quarter-final sees Rob Cross take on Michael van Gerwen.
Cross comfortably beat Van Gerwen in the semis last week before losing to Luke Littler in the final.
That was enough to, mathematically at least, keep Cross in contention for the top four but anything less than three nightly wins in the last three weeks and his race is run.
As for Van Gerwen, he finds himself in the thick of it as he battles to make the top four.
He won his fourth night of the season in Birmingham a couple of weeks back but really, he hasn't looked anywhere near his best for much of this campaign.
But MVG tends to find a way even when he is short of form and few would back against him making it to finals night for a shot at a record-extending eighth Premier League triumph.
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Result: Luke Littler 6-5 Nathan Aspinall
For the second week running, Luke Littler beats Nathan Aspinall in a final-leg decider - and it was another great match.
Both men hit four 180s but Littler's scoring was superior - 10 140-plus visits to Aspinall's six - and averaged 99.83 to The Asp's 92.06.
That meant the teenage could afford an under-par showing on the doubles. He hit just six of 25 darts at double - 24% - compared to Aspinall's five of 11 (45.5%).
Littler will face Michael Smith in the last four.