Few venues suit Rob Cross quite like the Brighton Centre. The two thousand eighteen world champion grew up along the Sussex coast and spent his teenage summers working as an electrician a stone’s throw from the seafront. On March six he will try to harness that home comfort as the BetMGM Premier League rolls into town for Night Five.citeturn4search6

Cross has compiled fourteen points across the opening four nights thanks to shrewd game management rather than headline averages. He ranks only sixth for one eighty frequency but sits second for checkout percentage at fifty two a statistic built on ruthless double eighteen success. His draw in Brighton pits him against league leader Gerwyn Price whose explosive scoring delivered a nine darter at this venue last season. Yet Cross takes confidence from beating Luke Humphries and Luke Littler in last year’…

Brighton has seen drama already this year. In Players Championship events at the nearby arena Luke Humphries and Cross both produced nine darters on the same evening before Littler captured the nightly title, a moment Sky Sports commentator Wayne Mardle likened to “lightning striking the Channel twice.”citeturn3search4

Crowds are expected to top four thousand and local councillors have approved an extended licence for seafront fanzones to cope with the influx. Should Cross reach at least the semi finals he would move into the top four for the first time since night two in Glasgow. Shock or not, the voltage in the arena will rise every time he approaches the oche and Brighton might just witness the surge that reignites his bid for a debut play off appearance.