Well Selby has potted a red, the first we've seen in a while, but he didn't mean to do it.

He is still relentlessly hunting for what would be his second snooker after being 71-0 down. Yes, it was the same frame if you're losing count / your memory / the will to live or have just drifted off.

Selby was involved in a frame that lasted 76 minutes and 11 seconds yesterday, so he has previous, just to warn you. We are at about 45 minutes at the moment for this one.

Teddov: Ding wants to play Snooker, Selby wants to play tactician. Interesting game we have on our hands.

David: Wow this is tactical!

Ryan: Great snooker by both players. Cheering for the jester from Leicester

DefiantZombie: I was still at school when this frame started. I'll be over 80 before it ends. Going to miss Match of the Day at this rate.

What's the face you pull when you're 71-0 up, your opponent needs a snooker, pots a pink instead of a black to then need another snooker but then puts you in a whole load of trouble again?

I'm guessing something like this...

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To use Dennis Taylor's nicknames.

Mark Selby is playing these snookers to perfection - maybe, just maybe, he has a chance in this 15th frame.

He gets the snooker he needs. And then stitches Ding up again, just for the hell of it.

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Selby's mission was to come back from 71-0 down, while also needing a snooker.

Well, he still needs a snooker, but now he has got 31 points on the board, although there is space in between brown, yellow, black and green for some devilish activity.

Just as I write that he sticks the cueball behind brown and yellow, with Ding facing a four-cushion escape attempt.

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My favourite picture today has been the Terry Griffiths jumper (see 20:34). 

But then again, you can't beat scoreline braces. Braces. That tell the score. Sensational scenes.

Only at the Crucible. Probably because you would never dare to wear these outside, but still a great picture.

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This frame is almost in the books. Ding's break of 55 makes it 71-0 before he misses with the rest. Selby is not giving up, but why would he when he only needs one snooker? However, this is going to take some effort - and time - to save this one.

Maybe Selby knows he won't win the frame from here but is doing what he can to break up Ding's momentum.

How important could this missed blue prove to be? Had Selby potted this it could have been 7-0. Instead it went to 6-1 and now look where we are...

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Gerry Neill: Ding knew what he was doing, it's like the Grand National he stayed at the back, until the perfect time to gallop.

Winston Shillingford: Ding got his act together it seems, nice!

@R-Obric: Cue a load of abuse for the bad pun, but this is turning into a right DING dong battle.

Awful, but it's late on a bank holiday Sunday, we'll let you off.

Ding's great long shot (see 10:11), only led to a break of 16. But moments later he produced another top-class effort.

He looks a completely different player to the nervous wreck that was almost in tears at the start of the match. This may well be 8-7 from here.

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Steve Davis
Six-time world champion on BBC Two

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We've not seen much to get excited about in the last hour but that is a cracking long pot from Ding Junhui to get him started in the 15th frame.

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Stephen Hendry
Seven-time world champion on BBC Two

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That's more like it. A break of 86 brings Ding Junhui a bit closer to Mark Selby again.

Ding looked on course for a century, which would have been the third of the final, but a missed red rolled down the side cushion cuts him short.

Dennis Taylor
1985 world champion on BBC Two

We are at a tough, tense point of the match when no player wants to make a mistake. As a result we are seeing a lot of time taken between shots and mistakes, and, to be honest, it is not an exciting period of play.

In frame 14, version two, Ding is at the table and is on a break of 35.

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David L Rattigan:, external Feeling genuinely guilty for dropping Mark Selby like a hot potato when Ding Junhui came along. #ficklenessofmenshearts, external

David Scothern:, external Great final between two great players.

Mr Jeffers:, external People have paid good money to watch a snooker final and all Mark Selby can do is turn each frame into a boring safety battle

It certainly is tense, with both players missing at the start of the 14th frame. Ding is leading by eight points to four, before Selby rolls the cueball into the reds and we see the sign no-one ever wants.

A dreaded re-rack. Like a great goal being ruled out by an offside flag, a bowler running in only to not release the ball, or a false start in athletics, all the effort in this frame has been wasted.

We start again.

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Ken Doherty
1997 world champion

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