Cross reveals effects of weight loss: "I feel like I like myself again, which is quite a difference"

This was magnified with him posting the fifth lowest average in history in losing out to Adrian Lewis at the Masters; but he is seemingly adapting.

'Voltage' admits that he has lost lots of weight; after not being happy with how he weighed and this effected his game. He added though that now he feels a lot better despite not being in the best form; but that he feels it will come as he starts to feel a lot better.

"I feel really fresh actually," Cross told the Darts Show podcast.

"I've had a nice little bit of time off and I've managed to lose a bit of weight. I feel like I like myself again, which is quite a difference.

"I suppose when I finished at the end of last year, I was a bit overweight and I wasn't very happy, so I've managed to do something that I wanted to do.

"At the time, I wasn't really liking myself because I felt a bit fat and frumpy to be honest.

"I think I've lost important games at certain times through not having the stamina for a day. That's 100 per cent evident that those things have happened."

"For me it's how you look and I was never this big four or five years ago. I was probably at my peak," Cross added.

"I was 17st - 13lb when I finished the worlds, I'm now 15st - 7lb, so I feel a lot better, a lot fresher.

"I've got a lot more energy. I'm putting myself in the gym now. I think it's whether I like myself. I think that's the biggest thing.

"It gives me a massive opportunity to now try and push my best game out while I'm doing that. As long as I feel good in myself I think I will perform better."