Sixteen-year-old freak Luke Littler is battling Humphries in Thursday morning’s PDC World Darts Championship final at the Alexandra Palace in London.

The English sensation was in sublime form as he cruised to a 6-2 victory over 2018 champion Rob Cross in Wednesday morning’s semi-final.

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Littler has become a household name in recent weeks amid his incredible success.

He became the youngest semi-finalist of the world darts championships at 16 years of age after smashing Brendan Dolan 5-1 in the quarters.

By qualifying for the final — which will be played on Thursday morning (AEDT) — he is already guaranteed a cash prize of $370,000.

If he wins the final he will take home more than $930,000.

8.20am — Littler misses big chance

Luke Littler for the first time showed his age when looking flustered right before the biggest dart of the match.

Littler had a chance to take a 5-2 lead, needing a double-2 with one dart to throw, but missed the board.

For the first time in the match Littler needed a moment to compose himself before the throw mifired.

Humphries pounced with his next dart and sudenly it is 4-3.

Sky Sport commentator Wayne Mardle said it was a set of “absolute carnage”.

8.15am — Littler makes Humphries pay, stuns world

Luke the Nuke is punishing an out-of-sorts Luke Humphries and suddenly leads 4-2.

Littler has won four of the past five sets and appears to be flying.

He took the fifth set 3-0 with Humphries struggling to find doubles.

“He [Humphries] lost it! Everything about his throw there just went south,” Sky Sports’ Wayne Mardle said.

“Look at the venom from the last dart by Littler — that’s just punishment of the highest order.”

Humphries struggled even more in the sixth set.

“You’ve got to be more settled than that,” Mardle said.

“He was just flummoxed wasn’t he. Of course, the D18 could have easily gone in, but he was so unsettled. You could literally see that he wasn’t throwing properly.

“He should be shaking his head. That was poor by Luke Humphries and he knows it.”

7.45am — Humphries takes early lead

The new World No. 1 stormed through the first set three legs to one.

Humphries strolled off the stage after the opening set while Littler stayed at the board throwing some practice dats after a slow start.

It clearly worked with Littler taking the second set.

Humphries found his rhythm again in a tight third set taking it three legs to two.

Littler even had two darts to take a 2-1 sets lead, but was unable to capitalise.

“This is brital darts already,” one TV commentator said.

6.45am — Littler’s private life causes a stir

When Luke Littler saw off Brendan Dolan to book his place in the World Darts Championship semi-finals, a warm embrace with his girlfriend was captured on TV cameras.

Sky Sports crews zoomed in on the darts wonderkid kissing Eloise Milburn, after his incredible display.

Five years Littler’s senior, the beauty consultant had been keeping a low profile until that moment, The Sun reports.

But she has since been elevated into the limelight following her passionate kiss with the most talked about sports star on the planet right now.

6am — Darts final ‘bigger than Ashes’

The 2024 PDC World Championship final has instantly become one of the biggest events to unfold in the UK in recent years.

Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn, who is chairman of the PDC, posted on Twitter on Thursday the final will blow all records away for the biggest darts event of all time.

Hearn wrote Littler’s semi-final smashed recent viewing numbers in the UK during the 2023 Ashes series.