Humphries beaten despite nine-dart finish in Brighton

World fig 1 Luke Humphries deed the archetypal Premier League nine-darter of 2025 but was beaten by Rob Cross.

Humphries deed 2 180s earlier a 141 checkout connected nighttime 5 successful Brighton to spell 2-0 ahead.

But the 30-year-old, who was seeking his 3rd nightly triumph of the campaign, ended up losing 6-4 successful the quarter-finals to his chap Englishman.

It was the 17th cleanable limb successful the Premier League since its inception successful 2005.

Quarter-finals

Gerwyn Price 3-6 Michael van Gerwen

Luke Littler 6-5 Chris Dobey

Rob Cross 6-4 Luke Humphries

Stephen Bunting v Nathan Aspinall

Premier League Darts is played crossed 16 archetypal weeks successful the league signifier with quarter-finals, semi-finals and a last each night.

Each of the 8 players is guaranteed to look the different 7 successful the quarter-finals successful weeks 1-7 and 9-15, with weeks 8 and 16's fixtures done disconnected the table. It means we volition get 4th v 5th successful Sheffield connected the last league-stage night, with the play-off spots perchance connected the line.

Players gain 2 points per quarter-final win, an further constituent if they triumph their semi-final and 5 for winning the night.

The apical 4 players aft the radical signifier advancement to the play-off nighttime astatine London's O2 Arena connected 23 May, with archetypal facing 4th and 2nd against 3rd successful a best-of-19-leg match. The final, which is the champion of 21 legs, follows.

If players are level connected points aft the 16 weeks past places are decided by nights won and past matches won.

Nottingham, 13 March, 19:00 GMT

Luke Humphries v Luke Littler

Rob Cross v Chris Dobey

Stephen Bunting v Gerwyn Price

Nathan Aspinall v Michael van Gerwen