Czechia’s wild World Cup of Darts celebrations appeared to see certainly one of their gamers lose a tooth.
The 14th seeds beat India on Friday night time to e-book their place within the second spherical.
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Petr Krivka secured a 4-2 victory by pinning double 20 on the Eissporthalle in Frankfurt.
His match-winning dart led to wild celebrations as Krivka turned in the direction of the group.
After pumping his fist and screaming, the world quantity 147 appeared to shout ‘come on’ throughout his launch of feelings.
Nevertheless, the celebrations got here at a price as certainly one of his enamel seemingly fell out and onto the stage.
Krivka rapidly composed himself by choosing it up and putting it into his pocket.
He then shook his opponents’ palms earlier than celebrating with team-mate Karel Sedlacek.
The incident shocked Sky Sports activities commentator Dan Dawson reside on air.
In response, he mentioned: “Petr Krivka celebrates so onerous I believe certainly one of his enamel simply fell out of his head. What a approach to mark your passage by means of to the last-16!
“Czechia win it, India exit, and now the celebrations can correctly start for the Czech pair.”
It’s Krivka’s first look on the World Cup of Darts, having made his debut in Czechia’s opening win over Chinese language Taipei on Thursday.
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Their two opening spherical victories sees the pair prime their group to succeed in the last-16.
The run equals their earlier finest efficiency after reaching the identical stage final 12 months.
On that event, they have been narrowly crushed 8-6 by Sweden, who went on to lose to Scotland.
Sedlacek is making his ninth consecutive look, with the final 5 coming alongside Adam Gawlas.
Each he and Krivka have already secured a mixed £9,000 in prize cash on the occasion.
They may improve these winnings to £20,000 in the event that they win their subsequent match on Saturday.
The 12 group winners will probably be drawn into the knockout stage bracket alongside the highest 4 seeds.
England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Eire all be part of the draw on the last-16 stage.