Darts betting tips: Saturday's PDC Home Tour preview and stats featuring Rob Cross

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Second Stage, Group Five: Odds & Tips

Sky Bet odds to top group: Rob Cross 1/1, Ryan Searle 5/2, Luke Woodhouse 3/1, Daniel Larsson 10/1

Although the PDC Home Tour has made the past month or so pass a little quicker, it still feels like another lockdown ago that Luke Woodhouse hit the first ever competitive nine-darter from a kitchen.

The average of 113.9 he achieved in that sparkling 5-0 victory over Gerwyn Price on night two made us all think we were in for an explosion darting fireworks from the homes of the superstars, but apart from the odd banger along the way, that tournament high mark has rarely been threatened.

Woodhouse's other two performances were much closer to the overall standard of around 90 and at 3/1, he'll certainly attract some interest tonight.

Rob Cross is the favourite despite somehow winning all three of his matches in his first group appearance without an averaging more than 85 in any of them - although that was completely understandable considering how his preparations were affected by the passing of his grandfather.

Voltage will have upped his practice in the weeks since then but I feel Ryan Searle is the best bet to reach the semi-finals at 5/2 following the consistent level of quality he produced last time out.

Heavy Metal, who is also one of my outright selections at 33/1, was one of four players to record a pair of 100+ averages in a single night along with Joe Cullen, Luke Humphries and Jose de Sousa but only he and the Portuguese veteran managed it in their first appearances. Cullen and Humphries achieved it when they returned for second bites at the cherry as previous runners-up.

If Cross is much improved from last time then I expect his clash with Searle, who won a maiden PDC Tour title this season before the coronavirus, to be full of quality and able to hit the 4/1 Match Action targets below.

I'm not discounting Daniel Larsson completely at 10/1 considering he upset odds of 8/1 to top his group in the previous round and while two of his performances hardly set the world alight, he did average 100 in his final match.

He's 11/8 to get the better of Woodhouse and I think that's worth putting into a double with Searle doing the same at almost 3/1.

• Chris Hammer's Best Bet: Searle to win the group at 5/2
• Chris Hammer's Match Bet 1: Searle v Cross to have over 9.5 legs, highest checkout to be over 116.5 and over 4.5 total 180s at 4/1
• Chris Hammer's Double: Larsson to beat Woodhouse and Searle to beat Woodhouse 2.96/1
• Sky Bet Price Boost: Cross to win all his matches either 6-0, 6-1, 6-2, 6-3 or 6-4 at 5/1 (WAS 4/1)

First Group Stage: Player-by-player form & averages

ROB CROSS

Topped Group 21 (Report)

• (79.3) Rob Cross 5-2 William Borland (77.4)
• (81.4) Rob Cross 5-4 Dimitri Van den Bergh (91.2)
• (85) Karel Sedlacek 4-5 Rob Cross (85.2)

RYAN SEARLE

Topped Group 6 (Report)

• (96.5) Ryan Searle 5-1 Andy Boulton (96)
• (93.2) James Wade 3-5 Ryan Searle (100.6)
• (103.3) Ryan Searle 5-2 Adrian Gray (89.7)

LUKE WOODHOUSE

Topped Group 2 (Report)

• (89.5) Luke Woodhouse 5-2 Ted Evetts (80.3)
• (95) Gerwyn Price 0-5 Luke Woodhouse (113.9) * WOODHOUSE HITS NINE-DARTER
• (90.6) Luke Woodhouse 5-2 Rowby-John Rodriguez (89.6)

DANIEL LARSSON

Topped Group 4 (Report)

• (80.2) Kyle Anderson 2-5 Daniel Larsson (83)
• (84) Daniel Larsson 5-2 Dirk van Duijvenbode (89.4)
• (87.1) Martin Schindler 0-5 Daniel Larsson (100.2)

PDC Home Tour Darts: Saturday's fixtures

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• Each night’s action begins at 1930 BST, and will include webcam footage of each player and their dart board, live score graphics and commentary from Dan Dawson. All PDC Home Tour action will be broadcast live on PDCTV for FREE to ALL registered PDCTV users, regardless of whether you have a paid or free membership

Group Five - Saturday May 30

• Rob Cross v Daniel Larsson
• Ryan Searle v Luke Woodhouse
• Daniel Larsson v Luke Woodhouse
• Rob Cross v Ryan Searle
• Ryan Searle v Daniel Larsson
• Luke Woodhouse v Rob Cross

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