Luke Humphries beats Luke Littler but Stephen Bunting takes nightly win

Luke Humphries defeated Luke Littler for the second week running but was denied back-to-back nightly wins in the Premier League after losing to an inspired Stephen Bunting 6-3 in the final at Sheffield’s Utilita Arena.

Defending champion Humphries, who halted Littler’s 10-match winning run in the semi-finals in Birmingham last week, walloped his out-of-sorts rival 6-1 in the last four again on night 16, the last round before next week’s finals night at the O2 in London.

But the 2024 world champion, who had edged out Michael van Gerwen 6-5 in his opening match, was swept aside in the final by Bunting, whose second nightly win of the season lifted him up to fifth in the league table.

IT'S BUNTING'S NIGHT IN SHEFFIELD!