Wales produce superb pairs display to defeat Australia

Wales are successfully through to the semi-finals of the World Cup of Darts after defeating Australia in the third straight pairs decider.

To start off with Gerwyn Price survived a real scare against Simon Whitlock surviving five match darts to claim a 4-3 win and the first point for Wales. This came after 'The Wizard' went 3-2 up with back-to-back 180's en route to an 11-darter.

Price though returned with a 96 checkout to force a decider where he survived and sent it to Jonny Clayton to claim the victory for Wales.

But Damon Heta produced another great display to win 4-2 against 'The Ferret' with an 102.2 average and four 180's to force a doubles decider.

This came after Clayton moved 2-1 up on Heta but 'The Heat' came back to square it up at 2-2 before Clayton missed double 16 for a 104 checkout and Heta step into break and lead 3-2 before finishing the job.

Price and Clayton though claimed it in the pairs decider with a strong 4-2 victory in which they averaged 98.8 with 40% on the doubles with two 180's as the favourites remain in proceedings going into the semi-finals.

World Cup of Darts 2020 schedule

Quarter-finals

Canada 1-2 Belgium

Singles 1: Jeff Smith (97.57) 1-4 (108.32) Kim Huybrechts

Singles 2: Matt Campbell (97.56) 4-1 (94.42) Dimitri van den Bergh

Pairs: Smith/Campbell v Huybrechts/Van den Bergh

England 2-1 Austria

Singles 1: Michael Smith (101.54) 3-4 (109.52) Mensur Suljovic

Singles 2: Rob Cross (89.36) 4-3 (83.54) Rowby-John Rodriguez

Pairs: Smith/Cross (82.28) 4-3 (79.88) Suljovic/Rodriguez

Wales 2-1 Australia

Singles 1: Gerwyn Price (98.04) 4-3 (104.13) Simon Whitlock

Singles 2: Jonny Clayton (99.87) 2-4 (102.25) Damon Heta

Pairs: Price/Clayton (98.8) 4-2 (89.38) Whitlock/Heta

Netherlands v Germany

Singles 1: Michael van Gerwen v Gabriel Clemens

Singles 2: Danny Noppert v Max Hopp