• Selby keeps Murphy at bay on day two to win 18-15
  • Only Hendry, Davis and O’Sullivan have more Crucible wins

Few sports have the ability to deliver such vastly different world champions year-to-year than snooker. For every great entertainer – a Ronnie O’Sullivan, a Judd Trump – there is a relentless, meticulous machine of the baize. Those adjectives alone perhaps make Mark Selby less popular than his colleagues, but you cannot deny the greatness the four-time world champion possesses.

Selby embraces those adjectives. It is his relentlessness, his patience and his studiousness on the table which make him the champion he is. And it is all those characteristics which further solidified his place alongside the sport’s all-time great players here, on a feel-good occasion few snooker fans will forget in a hurry.

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