Three world champions risk Premier League Darts AXE with nine stars competing for 3 spots alongside champ Luke Littler
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THREE former world champions face missing the cut for the Premier League Darts roster following their horror oche shows. The PDC will announce soon their eight-person line-up for the 17-week Road Show, which takes in seven countries and climaxes at London’s O2 Arena on Thursday May 29.
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Defending champion Luke Littler, Luke Humphries, Michael van Gerwen, Rob Cross and Stephen Bunting are set to be involved. That leaves three places up for grabs and the likes of Michael Smith, Gerwyn Price and Peter Wright might all be absent due to poor 2024 campaigns.
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Glen Durrant, the three-time Lakeside world champion, knows what it takes to win the Prem as he did in the Covid-hit year of 2020. Yet the following year, it all went wrong as Duzza, 54, was eliminated with nine consecutive defeats on the road. The Middlesbrough thrower, an excellent addition to this year’s Sky Sports commentary team, said: “As I found out, the Premier League is a shop window for the highs and lows of darts.
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“For some people it has been their making, for others it has been to their detriment because there’s a lot of travelling. “You don’t see much of your family for 17 weeks and it’s a hard slog if you’re not winning. “This year’s field is incredibly hard to call – you have to remember the top four in the Order of Merit are automatic picks.
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