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Top 10 moments of 2022/23 snooker season: No. 9 – Mark Selby compiles ultimate 147 maximum in World Championship final

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After the conclusion of another extraordinary snooker season, we pick 10 memorable moments from the 2022/23 campaign as captured by the Eurosport cameras.

You can vote for your personal favourite when we reveal our final list of contenders later this month. No. 9 – Mark Selby compiles ultimate 147 in world final Ad On the 40th anniversary of the maiden 147 break at the World Championship in Sheffield, it was perhaps fitting that we witnessed the first maximum in the final of the sport's blue-chip event.

SnookerTop 10 moments of 2022/23: No. 10 – Inspirational White finds his second WhirlwindA DAY AGO Canada's Cliff Thorburn famously began his totemic effort in 1983 with a fluke on the opening red while his engrossed opponent Terry Griffiths sucked the life out of a cigarette from his watching brief in a Crucible Theatre chair.

With 155 of the 189 competitive maximum breaks compiled this century, it feels like they play a different game since 'The Grinder' studiously plotted his path to his historic break.

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