“I got new darts last Friday so it was good to know they are good for me,” Bryceland said. “Mitchell’s a good player and I like playing him because he’s good and it will take me up a level and make me play better.”
Fans have taken to social media to compare him to Littler, as the 17-year-old aims for a hat-trick of Premier League nightly wins in Birmingham on Thursday.
Many including @Crawford88Jc took to X (formerly known as Twitter) to dub Bryceland “Luke even Littler” while @BowLingShepherd added: “The second coming of Luke Littler.”
Littler’s popularity has grown darts to a new level since his success at the World Championship, with @bwfc_elliot among several to theorise that Bryceland’s efforts are in part due to the 17-year-old superstar.
They wrote: “Because of the Littler effect in 10-15 years time England is gonna dominate the world of darts even more than we already dominate it now.”
