Luke Littler and Luke Humphries THRASHED by Germany as they're dumped out of World Cup of Darts on day they got MBEs
LUKE LITTLER and Luke Humphries have been dumped out of the World Cup of Darts following a shock 8-4 defeat to Germany.
The two Lukes, barely 24 hours after being awarded MBEs by the King, were surprisingly beaten 8-4 in Frankfurt.
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Luke Littler and Luke Humphries walked out to Vindaloo
Credit: Sky Sports
It was the worst defeat for the reigning champions since
Phil Taylor
and
Adrian
Lewis were humiliated by
Spain
in 2010.
The golden boys spurned FIVE
darts
to take a 3-2 lead but the German pair Ricardo Pietreczko and Martin Schindler took out 286 in six darts to go in front.
England's pair never seemed to recover from that setback. The Germans were roared on by the home crowd and ripped the Three Lions pair apart to hit five legs on the bounce to open up a 7-2 lead - and just one away from glory.
However, Humphries and Littler didn't stop the fight. They hit back-to-back legs to make it 7-4.
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But the Germans were not finished and clearly had their rivals rattled and soon wrapped it up 8-4.
On a night of shocks,
Scotland
were also smashed by the
Netherlands
, suffering an 8-0 whitewashing.
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