Darts: Jamie Hughes miscounts when on a 9-darter in bizarre moment

The standard of darts players is rising with every month and, thus, nine-darters are being hit with more regularity.

But they are still a great achievement and it’s still great viewing whenever one is hit.

There were three nine-darters hit in this weekend’s pair of Players Championship events.

Josh Rock and Joe Cullen both achieved the perfect leg at Players Championship 5, while Danny Noppert hit one on Players Championship 6.

Jamie Hughes had a brilliant opportunity to hit the fourth of the weekend.

The Tipton thrower opened up the sixth leg of his first round clash against Alan Souter with a 180, before following that up with a 177.

But, with his third visit to the board in the leg, disaster struck, And in extremely bizarre fashion.

Hughes suffered an unfortunate miscount as he believed he had 141 left instead of 144.

After pinning T20 with his first dart, the 35-year-old then aimed for T19, which he ended up hitting.

Hughes then aimed for D12 but then realised that he had accidentally left 27 rather than 24.

It made for both comical and heartbreaking viewing and you can view the moment below…