World quantity eight Chris Dobey suffered a shock second spherical exit on the PDC World Darts Championship with a 3-1 loss to Andrew Gilding.

Gilding, 55, got here from behind to beat Dobey 3-1 at Alexandra Palace, ending with a profession greatest event common of 99.01.

Dobey was certainly one of 4 seeded gamers to exit the second spherical on Saturday alongside Dave Chisnall, Michael Smith and Dirk van Duijvenbode.

Having misplaced the opening set, Gilding dropped solely three extra three legs as he arrange a 3rd spherical assembly with both Luke Woodhouse or Max Hopp after Christmas.

“I really feel superb. I felt actually dangerous in follow, that is normally a superb signal, you may solely get higher from there,” Gilding advised Sky Sports activities.

“The very first thing I needed was a nine-darter and the second was a win, so I bought the second.”

In the meantime, world quantity 4 Stephen Bunting gained in straight units in opposition to Nitin Kumar, whose first-round victory was the primary by an Indian participant on the event.

Bunting impressed by taking checkouts of 118, 107 and 132 with a 53% success price on doubles and 94.11 common, whereas Kumar gained simply two legs and averaged 75.18.

The Bullet will subsequent face England’s James Hurrell, who earlier beat world quantity 29 Van Duijvenbode 3-2.

The 2023 world champion Smith, seeded twenty eighth, exited the competitors with a 3-1 loss to Niels Zonneveld of the Netherlands.

Regardless of averaging simply shy of 98, Smith was unable to topple Zonneveld who took the final two units to succeed in the third spherical for the primary time, the place he’ll face world quantity 5 Jonny Clayton.

Wales’ Clayton was as a consequence of face Dom Taylor within the second spherical throughout Saturday’s night session, however was handed a bye after his opponent was suspended following a failed medicine check.