Bingham on track to deny Trump

Stuart Bingham was tearing up the script as he stayed on course to topple crowd favourite Judd Trump in their semi-final at the Betfred World Championship.

If the talk off the table in Sheffield was of a ’dream ticket’ final between master potter Trump and the 2005 world champion Shaun Murphy, first-time Crucible semi-finalist Bingham was working determinedly in the arena to give himself every chance of defying pre-match expectations.