Draw Players Championship 23: Including Van Gerwen vs Ricky Evans, Michael Smith vs Sparidaans & Aspinall vs Wilson

Thursday at 2 p.m. will kick off the 23rd Players Championship tournament of the season. A field of 128 players, including some of darts biggest names, will compete for the day's victory.

Wednesday's tournament produced a Dutch winner. Danny Noppert then grabbed the day's victory by defeating Christian Kist. Noppert begins Players Championship 23 with a duel against Jules van Dongen in the first round. Kist will meet Shaun Wilkinson.

Michael van Gerwen was paired with Ricky Evans in the draw, while reigning world champion Michael Smith will face Jeffrey Sparidaans and a meeting with James Wilson awaits Nathan Aspinall.

Dave Chisnall faces Tony Martinez, Raymond van Barneveld is up against Rusty-Jake Rodriguez, Joe Cullen takes on Ryan Meikle, Josh Rock has Adam Smith-Neale to deal with and Luke Humphries will have to overcome Jimmy Hendriks.

A total of 100,000 pounds in prize money is distributed at each Players Championship tournament. The winner of the event will receive a check for 12,000 pounds.

Dave Chisnall v Tony Martinez

Jim Williams v John O'Shea

Steve Beaton v Nick Fullwell

Darius Labanauskas v Richard Veenstra

James Wade v Martijn Kleermaker

Niels Zonneveld v Scott Williams

Nathan Aspinall v James Wilson

Stephen Burton v Robert Owen

Danny Noppert v Jules van Dongen

Adam Gawlas v Kim Huybrechts

Brendan Dolan v Madars Razma

William O'Connor v Jeff Smith

Michael Smith v Jeffrey Sparidaans

Ryan Joyce v Cam Crabtree

Raymond van Barneveld v Rusty-Jake Rodriguez

Owen Roelofs v Joe Murnan

Dirk van Duijvenbode v Connor Scutt

Nick Kenny v Robert Grundy

Ricardo Pietreczko v Krzsysztof Kciuk

Jeffrey de Zwaan v Kevin Burness

Joe Cullen v Ryan Meikle

Owen Bates v Ross Montgomery

Jose de Sousa v Karel Sedlacek

Steve Lennon v Bradley Brooks

Josh Rock v Adam Smith-Neale

Darren Webster v Martin Lukeman

Callan Rydz v Dylan Slevin

Matt Campbell v Mario Vandenbogaerde

Martin Schindler v Maik Kuivenhoven

Arron Monk v Florian Hempel

Mike de Decker v Chris Landman

Shaun Wilkinson v Christian Kist

Luke Humphries v Jimmy Hendriks

Mervyn King v Devon Petersen

Gian van Veen v Daniel Klose

Vincent van der Voort v Andy Boulton

Ross Smith v Danny van Trijp

Scott Waites v Cameron Menzies

Andrew Gilding v Radek Szaganski

Richie Burnett v Mensur Suljovic

Jonny Clayton v Lewy Williams

George Killington v Ronny Huybrechts

Dimitri van den Bergh v Nathan Rafferty

Ian White v Keegan Brown

Krzysztof Ratajski v Adam Warner

Lee Evans v Jurjen van der Velde

Gabriel Clemens v Alan Soutar

Jacques Labre v Pascal Rupprecht

Damon Heta v Brian Raman

Mickey Mansell v Jamie Hughes

Luke Woodhouse v Jermaine Wattimena

Ted Evetts v Vladimir Andersen

Stephen Bunting v Boris Krcmar

Josh Payne v Danny Jansen

Gary Anderson v Robbie Knops

Jose Justicia v Kevin Doets

Michael van Gerwen v Ricky Evans

Jamie Clark v Rowby-John Rodriguez

Chris Dobey v Simon Whitlock

Geert Nentjes v Callum Goffin

Ryan Searle v Graham Hall

John Henderson v Barry Keane

Daryl Gurney v Damian Mol

Graham Usher v Ritchie Edhouse