Snooker Shoot Out 2022 LIVE: Mark Williams, Jack Lisowski, Reanne Evans, Kyren Wilson & defending champion Day in action

SCENE SETTER Ad/> Ryan Day returns as the defending champion at the 12th running of the Shoot Out. The 41-year-old beat Mark Selby in last year’s final, and begins the defence of his crown against Jak Jones at 13:00 UK time. Also in action on Thursday at the short-format ranking event are Selby, Mark Williams, Jack Lisowski, Reanne Evans and Kyren Wilson.

On Friday, Stuart Bingham, Noppon Saengkham, Thepchaiya Un-Nooh, Yan Bingtao, Jimmy White and Zhao Xintong enter the fray with the tournament set to run through until Sunday. Shoot OutSnooker Shoot Out 'is great and horrible at the same time' — Dale17/01/2022 AT 08:39 Live comments will begin at 12:45. — Thu 20 Jan 1pm: Ryan Day v Jak Jones Est.

1:15pm: Allan Taylor v Liam James Davies (a) Est. 1:30pm: Jimmy Robertson v Simon Blackwell (a) Est. 1:45pm: Dylan Emery (a) v Simon Lichtenberg Est.

2pm: Lu Ning v Stan Moody (a) Est. 2:15pm: Allister Carter v Matthew Stevens Est. 2:30pm: Craig Steadman v Gerard Greene Est.

2:45pm: Pang Junxu v Cao Yupeng Est. 3pm: James Cahill (a) v Jackson Page Est. 3:15pm: Martin Gould v Nigel Bond Est.

3:30pm: Dominic Dale v Oliver Lines Est. 3:45pm: Jamie O'Neill v Liang Wenbo Est. 4pm: Gao Yang v Jamie Wilson Est.

4:15pm: John Astley (a) v Ian Burns Est. 4:30pm: Haydon Pinhey (a) v Farakh Ajaib Est. 4:45pm: Chang Bingyu v Shaun Murphy 7pm: Mark Selby v Li Hang Est.

7:15pm: Paul Deaville (a) v Chen Zifan Est. 7:30pm: Michael Judge v Mark Lloyd (a) Est. 7:45pm: Fraser Patrick v Andrew Higginson Est.

8pm: Akani Songsermsawad v David B Gilbert Est. 8:15pm: Ross Bulman (a) v Martin O'Donnell Est. 8:30pm: Aaron Hill v Lee Walker Est.

8:45pm: Stuart Carrington v Mark J Williams Est. 9pm: Lyu Haotian v Dean Young Est. 915pm: Ricky Walden v Zak