Luke Humphries falls victim to freak shot in tense World Darts Championship final against Luke Littler

LUKE HUMPHRIES fell victim to a freak shot in the PDC World Darts Championship final.

The new world number one was locked in a tense encounter with Luke Littler when he suffered from the bizarre moment.

Luke Humphries fell victim to a freak shot during the PDC World Darts Championship finalPDC Darts

Humphries had planted a pair of triple 20s before chasing a 180 with his third dart at Alexandra Palace.

However, his final arrow hit fell out the board, taking another with it, to cost Cool Hand Luke a maximum.

He was visibly shocked by the freak shot, showing a perplexed expression as he collected his darts.

Darts fans were sympathetic on social media, with one commenting: “That’s so unlucky.”

Another added: “So tough for Luke.”

A third fan simply wrote: “Brutal.”

Humphries had been trailing 3-2 and was behind 2-0 in the sixth set at the time of the incident.

He was unable to recover to rescue the set, before roaring back to win the next and reduce Littler’s lead to 4-3 at Ally Pally.

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