Darts’ richest players revealed

Daniel Wales looks through the PDC Order of Merit to discover the current richest players in darts.

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00:00Luke Humphreys has been revealed to be the richest player in darts. The world number

00:06one who won his first world championship at the Alexandra Palace in January, tops the

00:11PDC order of merit, which calculates the prize money won over a two year period in ranking

00:18tournaments. Humphreys winnings are over £1.8 million, nearly £1 million more than second

00:24placed Michael Smith, who has won £890,000. Unsurprisingly, Dutch ace Michael Van Gerwen

00:31comes in third, with teenage sensation Luke Littler in fourth place, just ahead of Rob

00:38Cross who occupies fifth spot in the rankings. Littler will be hoping to go one step further

00:44in the world championships at the Alexandra Palace this time round, having reached the

00:48final as an unknown last time, only just losing to Humphreys but capturing the imagination

00:55of the nation in the process.