MEN’S DARTS: Nathan Aspinall beat Luke Humphries 6-4 on Thursday night in Manchester to win his first Premier League event of the season.

Luke Littler still tops the table by five points from Humphries, with Gerwyn Price third and Aspinall leap-frogging Michael van Gerwen into fourth.

At the other end of the table basement-dweller Stephen Bunting went down 6-1 to Humphries in his opener and second-bottom Rob Cross lost 6-2 to Aspinall.