Summary

  • Night seven of Premier League Darts in Nottingham

  • Luke Humphries beats Nathan Aspinall 6-3 in final to go top of Premier League table

  • Aspinall beat Luke Littler 6-3 in semi-final, Humphries defeated Peter Wright 6-1

  1. Humphries extends his leadpublished at 21:39 Greenwich Mean Time 14 March

    Wright 1-4 Humphries

    Luke Humphries throws a dartImage source, PA Media

    Brilliant 141 set up from Luke Humphries and, when Peter Wright misses the double 10 for a 140 finish, Cool Hand finds double 18 to hold.

    A three-leg lead for the world champion.

  2. Postpublished at 21:38 Greenwich Mean Time 14 March

    Wright 1-3 Humphries

    Wayne Mardle
    Former World Championship semi-finalist on Sky Sports

    Peter Wright is having his best week. Not only has he got a win but he's playing better.

    Let's hope it continues because he's an asset to darts.

  3. Humphries breaks againpublished at 21:37 Greenwich Mean Time 14 March

    Wright 1-3 Humphries

    Luke Humphries shakes his head after missing bullseye for a 167 out but it doesn't cost him.

    He returns to find double eight for another break.

  4. Wright breaks backpublished at 21:35 Greenwich Mean Time 14 March

    Wright 1-2 Humphries

    This might help Peter Wright get going. He hits a 180 on his way to an important break of throw.

    He hits double nine and gives a big fist pump, drawing a smile from Luke Humphries.

  5. Humphries breakspublished at 21:33 Greenwich Mean Time 14 March

    Wright 0-2 Humphries

    The world champion takes charge of this semi-final early on.

    Peter Wright finds himself likely needing to take out 104 to hold, he doesn't and Cool Hand hits tops to break.

  6. Straightforward hold for Humphriespublished at 21:31 Greenwich Mean Time 14 March

    Wright 0-1 Humphries

    Strong start from Luke Humphries and he takes out 90 to hold with Peter Wright somewhere back in the 200s.

  7. Postpublished at 21:30 Greenwich Mean Time 14 March

    Wright 0-0 Humphries

    It's Luke Humphries to throw first and he starts with a 134 visit.

  8. Postpublished at 21:28 Greenwich Mean Time 14 March

    Wright v Humphries

    Peter Wright prepares to walk to the stageImage source, PA Media

    It's walk-on time again... and first up it's Peter Wright, who dances across the stage to Don't Stop the Party.

    He's soon followed by Luke Humphries and his walk-on tune, Cake by the Ocean.

  9. Postpublished at 21:22 Greenwich Mean Time 14 March

    Wright v Humphries

    Time for the first semi-final of the evening as Peter Wright, having claimed his first Premier League win of the year, takes on last week's winner Luke Humphries.

    The world champ looked in great form in his quarter-final and will be out to end Snakebite's win streak at one.

  10. Postpublished at 21:21 Greenwich Mean Time 14 March

    Wright v Humphries

    Mark Webster
    Former BDO world champion on Sky Sports

    Peter Wright needed the points, he's got a lot of work to do but if he wins the night, he will be off the foot of the table and that'll be good for him psychologically.

    He hasn't been getting any luck, it's his chance to get a slice of luck and he's got to run with it.

    This, he'll hope, will be the start of something for him.

    But I can't look beyond the two Lukes in the final.

  11. Semi-final line-uppublished at 21:18 Greenwich Mean Time 14 March

    Best of 11 legs

    All of that leaves us with this pair of semi-finals...

    • Peter Wright v Luke Humphries
    • Luke Littler v Nathan Aspinall
  12. Quarter-final resultspublished at 21:16 Greenwich Mean Time 14 March

    Luke Littler reacts during his match against Michael van GerwenImage source, PA Media

    That's the quarter-finals done then and here's a quick reminder of how they went...

    • Peter Wright 6-5 Gerwyn Price
    • Luke Humphries 6-4 Michael Smith
    • Michael van Gerwen 2-6 Luke Littler
    • Rob Cross 5-6 Nathan Aspinall
  13. Postpublished at 21:14 Greenwich Mean Time 14 March

    Result: Cross 5-6 Aspinall

    After the quarter-final that preceded it, this one felt pretty sedate but despite not hitting a maximum, Nathan Aspinall did average 102.64.

    He also had 13 140-plus visits and hit 50% of his doubles.

    Cross was even more impressive on the doubles, hitting 71.4% of the time, and averaged 98.92.

    On this occasion, though, it was not quite enough.

  14. Aspinall breaks to progress!published at 21:11 Greenwich Mean Time 14 March
    Breaking

    Cross 5-6 Aspinall

    Nathan Aspinall needed to break - and he does!

    Rob Cross is waiting to pounce on 60 but The Asp takes out 71 in two darts to move into the semi-finals.

  15. Postpublished at 21:08 Greenwich Mean Time 14 March

    Cross 5-5 Aspinall

    Mark Webster
    Former BDO world champion on Sky Sports

    A huge deciding leg for Nathan Aspinall, he needs to break Rob Cross or there will be some serious breathing space in the top four for Voltage.

  16. Aspinall sends it to deciderpublished at 21:08 Greenwich Mean Time 14 March

    Cross 5-5 Aspinall

    Three darts at double go astray for Nathan Aspinall but he comes back to hit double five.

    Time for a one-leg shootout. A hold will send Rob Cross through.

  17. Cross closes inpublished at 21:05 Greenwich Mean Time 14 March

    Cross 5-4 Aspinall

    A timely 180 from Rob Cross puts him in control of the leg.

    He hits double eight to hold and move to within one leg of victory.

    Nathan Aspinall has to hold to force a deciding leg.

  18. Aspinall takes out 104published at 21:03 Greenwich Mean Time 14 March

    Cross 4-4 Aspinall

    A ton-plus finish for Nathan Aspinall to keep it on throw.

    With two darts to get 85, The Asp finds treble 15 then tops to make it 4-4.

  19. Cross keeps it on throwpublished at 21:02 Greenwich Mean Time 14 March

    Cross 4-3 Aspinall

    With Nathan Aspinall lurking and just needing tops, Rob Cross takes out 78 to retake the lead.

    Left with just one dart for tops, he makes no mistake.

    Rob Cross throws a dartImage source, PA Media
  20. Postpublished at 21:00 Greenwich Mean Time 14 March

    Cross 3-3 Aspinall

    Mark Webster
    Former BDO world champion on Sky Sports

    Both players are focused, there's no real celebrating going on, it's all business.