Tuesday, 24 April 2018

A funny thing happened at the Crucible tonight....

Not something that has ever happened in my time there so far at the World Snooker Championships......

In the first round match between 2015 champion Stuart Bingham and qualifier Jack Lisowski with the match 4-5 after the first session, in the first frame (frame #10) of the second session, Jack Lisowski had rushed into a 60-0 lead and one of the lights over the table went out:
Referee Jan Verhaas looks at the light, Stuart Bingham points it out to the World Snooker crew.

After some discussions, the players agreed to complte the frame.  The light metres then came out and it was decided that the light was good enough all over the table to continue - the frame eventually going 76-22 to Jack Lisowski who then went on to win the game 9-7.