Top 10 moments of 2022/23 snooker season: No. 1 – Luca Brecel wins World Championship with heavy metal brand of snooker

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.

No. 1 – Brecel's heavy metal snooker bewitches Crucible Ad Luca Brecel loves listening to hip-hop, but the new world champion's snooker game is very much of the heavy metal variety, the gegenpress of the green baize.

World Championship'What a champion he’s going to be' – McManus and White laud ‘sensational’ Brecel02/05/2023 AT 07:33 While he emerges to the walk-on sounds of Insane in the Brain by Cypress Hill, the intensity of his crash, bang, wallop, all-out attacking style is more like Black Ball Sabbath, Motley Crue with cue in hand as he moves rapidly to the thunderous sound of his own beat. The thin line between genius and insanity is perhaps never truer than finding the fine lines on a snooker table during the annual World Championship stress test.

Come on feel the noise inside the Crucible Theatre was all the rage in April and May with Brecel on the rampage leathering the back of the pockets with a unique, high-risk, high-reward strategy some would have suggested tantamount to sporting hara-kiri. Who knew that the percentage shot was old hat? Fighting out of the town of Maasmechelen in Belgium, the first player from continental Europe to conquer the sport's most celebrated venue dispensed with the notion that you require a reliable safety strategy to succeed on the grandest stage.