John Higgins hits incredible double kiss snooker commentator dubs 'greatest I've seen'

Snooker icon John Higgins fluked a remarkable double kiss at the English Open to leave fans and commentary team alike stunned. One of the greatest to ever pick up a cue and one-third of the infamous Class of '92, four-time world champion Higgins is no stranger to the fantastic.

In what turned out to be the tie in which 'The Wizard of Wishaw' reached 1000 career century breaks - the second player ever to do so behind  Ronnie O'Sullivan - Higgins approached a long red in the fourth frame, looking to claw ground back from his opponent, Mark Allen, whom he trailed 2-1.

The slightly ambitious pot into the top left was missed, the red firing of both jaws before travelling down the table - and what happened next had to be seen to be believed.

As Eurosport commentator Neal Foulds put it: "I don't know quite where to start on this. It's probably the greatest double kiss I've ever seen in my life!"

The missed red shot back down the table near the stationary green, bouncing off the back cushion before returning in spectacular fashion to meet Higgins' cue ball.

Having cannoned off a pair of cushions itself, the white unbelievably arrived to softly collide with the runaway red, sliding it into a side pocket and whacking a stunned grin onto opponent Allen's face.

The fact that this shot saw two balls flying around the table and neither colliding with any other ball is a feat in itself, but for the missed red to actually go in made for an all-time fluke.

Foulds, a former player himself, was clearly left in awe over the make, as it would be assumed, many fans packed into the Brentwood Centre, Essex.

You may have thought that the cueist icon would ride this luck into mounting a challenge to his world number three-ranked open; however, it was not to be.

Allen would go on to win the fourth frame to lead 3-1 and sit on the verge of a compelling victory. Higgins had another idea, drawing the tie level at 3-3 - before the Northern Irishman struck a hammer blow and knocked Higgins out of the ranking event.

Reaching a century of centuries capped off a relatively average tournament for the Scotsman, whose last ranking event win came at the 2020/21 Players Championships. Now ranked 16th in the world and perhaps past his World Championship-winning prime, the 49-year-old is still able to wow fans nonetheless.