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Snooker scores LIVE: Neil Robertson faces Crucible punishment as Shaun Murphy erupts

The World Snooker Championship continues with the second spherical getting underway on the Crucible immediately.

Neil Robertson is bidding to succeed in the second spherical (Picture: PA)

The World Snooker Championship enters day six, with the second spherical getting underway in Sheffield immediately. The primary spherical is sort of completely full, with solely two matches to be completed to make up the rest of the final 16. Neil Robertson and Si Jiahui want to seal a rarity – all 16 seeds making it via spherical one. They have to first get previous Pang Junxu and Hossein Vafaei respectively.

Robertson is going through a advantageous for an uncommon incident in his first session the place he prematurely conceded a body he may have received. Whereas Shaun Murphy returns to the desk following a dramatic 10-9 win over Fan Zhengyi, which included the lights on the opposite unmanned desk flickering on when he was mid-stroke. An agitated Murphy erupted post-match and demanded an investigation: “I hope to seek out out [how it happened] as a result of that ought to by no means occur.” It has since been confirmed the difficulty was a technical fault.

34 minutes in the past11:06 Aaron Morris

In the present day's motion

Si Jiahui takes to the baize to complete his match with Hossein Vafaei this morning with a mountain to climb given he’s 3-6 down.

Elsewhere, Neil Robertson is 5-4 up towards Junxu Pang after they resume play immediately. Guodong Xiao and Shaun Murphy go head-to-head at 1pm in a contemporary spherical of 16 encounter, whereas Kyren Wilson is in motion towards Mark Allen at 7pm.

Neil Robertson is again on the baize on Thursday (Picture: Getty) 39 minutes in the past11:01 Aaron Morris

Good morning!

Good morning and welcome to our stay protection of the snooker World Championships.

We have got lots to stay up for immediately, so stick with us as we deliver you the entire newest information and updates from in and across the Crucible…

The World Championships are again! (Picture: Getty)

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