Jak Jones vs Kyren Wilson LIVE: World Snooker Championship score after dramatic end to first night of final

So the players will return tomorrow afternoon with Kyren Wilson leading 11-6. How different it would have been had Jak Jones only been trailing by three frames, rather than five, but he’s still in this match, just.

Jones will need a fast start on Monday if he is to become world champion. Join us then.

“It’s not only the scoreline, it was needing a snooker, it’s about the way the last frame was won. There was a lot of tension there, some good safety, so I was proud of how I held it together. I had a target of 11 in my head and I achieved it.”

“I’m absolutely knackered. If I had a decent night’s sleep last night I could have done something this morning. It’s a miracle I’m still in it. Hopefully I get a good night’s sleep tonight, come out flying tomorrow.”

Jones tries to break the deadlock with a bold, bold double across the table into the yellow pocket – it rocks in the jaws and bounces out!

Wilson will surely knock it in for the frame… he does! Wilson punches the air, shakes hands with Jones and marches out of the arena. Jones looks bereft.

This safety exchange is so tense, and the audience is utterly immersed in every shot.

Wilson offers a rueful smile as Jones gets a little lucky with a shot which sends the black near the green pocket, but safe. Wilson’s next safety leaves a half-chance for Jones, who takes it on but cuts it too thin.

He leaves Wilson a similar chance, but he hits it too thin as well! We go on. There’s so much riding on this black.

Wilson pots the brown, and the blue, but misses the mid-length pink! So Jones comes to the table with only the pink and black on the table, leading by 11 points.

Jones takes on the thinnest cut of the pink into the green pocket… but misses! Now Wilson will try the same shot on the pink, and he makes it!

Wilson has a tough black on his spot, with the cue ball near the corner pocket, to win the frame… it rattles in the jaw and stays out! Goodness me.

It runs safe, and so this frame is all on the black.

Now then. Wilson puts Jones in a snooker, and this frame is not quite done and dusted. Jones does brilliantly to get out of it and hit the yellow coming off two cushions, but a moment later he’s in another snooker and this time Jones misses the yellow completely trying to play a swerve shot!

Wilson pots the yellow, and the green, and suddenly he could steal the frame!

Jones pots the red, and the tough black that follows!

The yellow rattles in the jaws from distance, so Wilson comes back to the table needing one snooker and all of the colors to win the frame, or else it will be 10-7 overnight.

Jones begins dispatching reds and blacks confidently. He comes to the final red needing to pot it, plus a colour, to leave Wilson needing snookers. It’s a tough pot, down the left rail…

Wilson puts 34 points on the board before reaching a critical point in the break, needing to pot a red and split the pack. He does so nicely but spins the cue ball against the knuckle of the middle jaw and it bounces up into baulk! That was not in the plan.

He tries to keep the break alive by taking on a tough green but fires it wide of the left middle pocket, and Jones comes back to the table in a great position to respond.