Steve Davis

A power outage at the Crucible Theatre interrupted BBC’s live coverage of the 2026 World Snooker Championship semi-final between Mark Allen and Wu Yize for 12 minutes. BBC issued an apology, and despite the disruption, Allen regained his focus, leveling the match. The semi-final remains tightly contested heading into the final sessions.

Snooker began in 1875 India, credited to Sir Neville Chamberlain’s variation of black pool, later recognised after his 1938 letter to The Field and Compton Mackenzie’s 1939 support. It evolved from a colonial pastime into a structured professional sport, shaped by television exposure and modern champions, and has since grown into a truly global game.

Pakistan has objected to the use of Hot Spot ball tracking technology and also to the appointment of umpire Steve Davis in the ongoing Test series in South Africa.

Former Indian pacer Javagal Srinath will be the match referee for the first two Tests between Pakistan and England in Dubai and Abu Dhabi this month.

Saeed Ajmal has alleged that umpire Steve Davis victimized Pakistan after he ruled Umar Akmal caught behind against India on Sunday.

ICC Emirates Elite Panel Umpire Aleem Dar will be replaced by Steve Davis in the remaining three ODIs of the five-match series between West Indies and England.

Pakistan has formally lodged a complaint over poor umpiring decisions in the first Test against Sri Lanka at Galle.

India's ace cueist Aditya Mehta has won the first two rounds at the Bulgaria Open tournament against Michael White and six-time world champion Steve Davis.

India will play two warm-up games before their opening match of the ICC World Twenty20 to be held in Bangladesh next month, according the schedule announced by the world body today.

India's ace cueist and world number 68, Aditya Mehta, scored two consecutive wins to move to the last 32 of the Munich Open on Wednesday.

Ace cueist Pankaj Advani says his recent World Billiards Championship triumph was a "special" one as he had to wait for three years to regain it.

The ICC has rejected the Pakistan Cricket Board's reservations about some umpiring decisions and the way the Decision Review System was used in the team's Test series in South Africa.

In a development which could break the shackles for Indian umpires, Sundaram Ravi has made it to the ICC's elite panel, 11 years after S Venkatraghavan, India's last representative in the panel, retired from international umpiring.

Pankaj Advani became the youngest Indian sportsperson to win eight world titles as Indian cueists rounded off a successful year.

The PCB will continue to support the implementation of the DRS and is trying to have it employed for their one-day series against Australia in August.

Three ICC Elite Panel umpires - Simon Taufel, Steve Davis and Billy Bowden - will not officiate in the inaugural Twenty20 Champions League

The 2009 terror attack on the Sri Lankan team's bus in Lahore not only changed his life, but the lives of many others and also the global game of cricket, says Simon Taufel, who was an umpire in that ill-fated match and survived the strike.

Elon Musk, in an interview with Fox News, revealed his ambitious goal to slash $1 trillion from US government spending by May. Leading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Musk aims for a 15% reduction in federal spending without impacting critical services. Trump's administration has implemented stringent measures, highlighting the political challenges of such drastic fiscal reforms.

Pankaj Advani continued his dream run in the Welsh Open Pro Snooker Series as the 8-time world champion rewrote history by entering the quarters.

Pankaj Advani set off on a long English journey to claim the only major trophy missing from his cabinet -- The UK Championship at Crucible.