Summary

  • Final score (best of 35 frames): Mark Selby (Eng) 15-18 Luca Brecel (Bel)

  • Belgium's Brecel becomes fourth non-British player to win world title at the Crucible Theatre

  • Selby won five successive frames from 16-10 behind before Brecel clinched first world title with century break

  • Brecel climbs to number two in world rankings and wins £500,000 first prize

Live Reporting

Michael Beardmore

  1. Four frames on spin for Selby

    Selby 14-16 Brecel

    If it wasn't game on already, it is now.

    Mark Selby looks onGetty Images

  2. Selby 13-16 Brecel

    Luca Brecel is way off on another long red - the occurrences of that are beginning to rack up.

    Mark Selby a handful of pots away from closing the arrears to two frames.

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    Ant: You can sense Selby fancies this, worrying times for Brecel.

    Huthaifa: Can’t see Brecel winning a frame from here.

  4. Selby 13-16 Brecel

    Mark Selby prepares to play a shotPA Media

    But then it goes wrong off the next red, only an incredibly tough cut on the black so Mark Selby plays safe.

    A lead of 50 though.

  5. Selby 13-16 Brecel

    Lax positional shot from Selby off a red near the pocket.

    Tough blue, right into the heart of the bag. Break up to 49.

  6. Selby 13-16 Brecel

    Stephen Hendry
    Seven-time world champion on BBC Two

    You just get the sense that Mark Selby is finding a gear at the right time.

  7. Selby 13-16 Brecel

    Big shot now for Mark Selby, 23-0 up, chance to go into the pack off the blue.

    And they split beautifully.

  8. Selby 13-16 Brecel

    Mark Selby leaves Luca Brecel right on the baulk cushion off the break-off and he goes for an ambitious red - miles away.

    'The Jester' capitalises with a good pot. Ominous signs for the Belgian.

  9. Re-rack

    Selby 13-16 Brecel

    Tactical start to frame 30, with four reds in baulk, which means a lot of rolling up to the pack.

    Both players agree on a re-rack.

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    Paul England: This championship has been epic, this final is turning into a classic.

  11. Selby 13-16 Brecel

    Stephen Hendry
    Seven-time world champion on BBC Two

    Luca Brecel ponders a shotPA Media

    I think the interval has come at a good time for Luca. This pressure is only going to get greater and it's something he's never experienced before. This is intense now.

  12. Selby 13-16 Brecel

    We'll soon find out, Hazel.

    The final mini-session of the final session of the final is under way. Finally.

  13. Selby 13-16 Brecel

    Hazel Irvine
    Presenter on BBC Two

    He's won the Shot of the Championship, can he win the title now?

  14. Brecel wins Shot of the Tournament

    Selby 13-16 Brecel

    Luca Brecel will be hoping for grander prizes tonight - but he's just been named first and second in the World Championship Shot of the Tournament.

    A fine cut on a red into the middle against Si Jiahui in the semi-final claims the silver medal.

    But a pot on the black and sending the white round three cushions to develop the yellow in his round two victory over Mark Williams wins the gong.

    A wonderful Ronnie O'Sullivan snooker behind the black against Brecel in the quarter-finals is third.

  15. Selby 13-16 Brecel

    Steve Davis
    Six-time world champion on BBC Two

    With all the great champions, with their back against the wall, they don't even worry about missing.

    They just play and they just compete and that's a wonderful position to be in.

  16. Selby 13-16 Brecel

    Steve Sutcliffe
    BBC Sport at Crucible Theatre, Sheffield

    All of a sudden their are some very nervy newspaper journalists in the press room given this sport throws up a perennial problem.

    A Mark Selby fightback and an epic late-night finish would have serious repercussions on meeting print deadlines.

  17. 'Surgeon sharpening his scalpel'

    Selby 13-16 Brecel

    Steve Davis
    Six-time world champion on BBC Two

    Mark Selby chalks his cuePA Media

    The surgeon is just sharpening his scalpel, oh my goodness.

    We don't have a horse in this race, we love all the players but this is such an entertaining final. It's great to watch Mark Selby coming back but we know what it's like to be Luca. I hope he doesn't crumble.

    There are a couple of shots that Luca has played that have just pushed the barriers of attack a bit too far - you don't give Mark Selby encouragement.

    But how does Luca rein it in slightly because that's not his style? If he goes the other way too far, that's even more encouraging.

  18. Foxes following Selby's lead

    Mark Selby will pleased with his performance at the Crucible so far this evening and he'll be pleased with the scoreline at King Power Stadium too.

    Leicester City have come from behind to take a 2-1 lead against Everton, a score that would take the Foxes out of the Premier League's relegation zone.

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  19. Selby 13-16 Brecel

    John Parrott
    1991 world champion on BBC Two

    We keep saying how Mark Selby knows how to win here, he also knows what it's like to be a first time finalist and he knows what Luca's going through.

  20. 100 runs

    Century for Selby

    Selby 13-16 Brecel

    Yes, he can. A brilliant 122 clearance capped with an exhibition black ball.

    The gap was six, now it's three, as Hazel Irvine succinctly puts it.