World Snooker Championship: 'Crazy stuff' - Three flukes in three minutes as Jack Lisowski loses wild frame

Jack Lisowski and Noppon Saengkham left the crowd at the Crucible stunned with a truly wild passage of play during their first-round match at the World Championship on Wednesday morning. With the score locked at 7-3 to Lisowski in a bizarre frame that had already flirted with potentially having an enforced re-spot given the positioning of some of the balls, the real drama was to follow at its conclusion.

Ad The «crazy stuff» started as Saengkham missed an attempted cut on the green into the middle pocket, only to see the cue ball roll in cheekily behind the blue to leave his opponent snookered. World Championship147 in full: Watch Wilson's incredible maximum break as Crucible history is madeAN HOUR AGO «Oh, wow!» exclaimed Philip Studd, on commentary for Eurosport at the time.

«Well, when you are in the predicament that Saengkham is at the moment, 7-3 down, you need a bit of luck, and he certainly had some there. But before anyone had a moment to feel sorry for Lisowski, he benefited from a hefty dose of good fortune himself with his very next shot.

The 31-year-old took on a double on the green to play safe, but he accidentally caught the ball full-on and sent it careering into the middle pocket for a second successive fluke as the crowd cheered. »Right back at you!" chuckled Studd as Dominic Dale added in disbelief: «What is going on here? Amazing.