World Snooker Championship LIVE: Latest scores and results

The World Snooker Championship 2023 resumes after the chaotic scenes on Monday during Robert Milkins’ clash with Joe Perry.

A Just Stop Oil protester covered a table in bright orange powder, forcing a delay of around 40 minutes. While a second protestor was seen attempting to climb onto the adjacent table where Mark Allen and Fan Zhengyi were playing, apparently attempting to affix themselves to it.

Former world champion Stephen Hendry, on commentary duties for the BBC, said: “I have never seen that before at a snooker event. It’s a first. It is scary. Wow!

Jack Lisowski takes on Noppon Saengkham and Gary Wilson faces Elliot Slessor in the morning session at the Crucible in Sheffield.

While Ronnie O'Sullivan has been criticised by rival Hossein Vafaei ahead of their second round match - follow all the latest scores and results below:

World Snooker Championship 2023 - Day 4

Snooker World Championship First Round Results

08:51 , Jack Rathborn

First round Results (best of 19)

Ronnie O’Sullivan 10-7 Pang Junxu

Stuart Bingham 10-4 David Gilbert

Neil Robertson 10-3 Wu Yize

Luca Brecel 10-9 Ricky Walden

Ali Carter 6-10 Jak Jones

Ding Junhui 6-10 Hossein Vafaei

Mark Williams 10-5 Jimmy Robertson

Play halted at World Snooker Championship after Just Stop Oil protester covers table in powder

08:41 , Jack Rathborn

Play was halted at the Crucible during the World Snooker Championship after a protester wearing a Just Stop Oil t-shirt ran into the arena, jumped onto the table and scattered a bag of orange powder across the surface.

The incident happened during Robert Milkins’ clash with Joe Perry in the evening session, forcing a delay of around 40 minutes before any play resumed.

“We’ve got a protester who is throwing powder on the table - I’ve never seen the likes of this before,” said the shocked commentator on Eurosport as events unfolded. “He’s being roundly booed by the audience but play is going to have to be suspended while they deal with the mess on the table. I don’t know what he’s protesting and frankly I don’t care - thankfully no-one was hurt and they’re going to have to try and remove that complete mess.”

World Snooker Championship 2023: Play halted amid Just Stop Oil protest