World Snooker Championship: Jimmy White questions Mark Allen talking with Mark Selby – ‘What is he doing?’

The opening four frames of the second session on Friday took over two hours and Selby stole a frame from a snooker down to go 6-4 behind, when he was on the verge of trailing 7-3.

Selby then won the next two frames to level the match up at 6-6 going into the mid-session interval.

Before the players re-entered the Crucible, they were seen talking with each other, along with referee Leo Scullion, which White didn’t understand.

“They are now laughing,” White said in the Eurosport studio. “What is Mark Allen doing? I don’t agree. You have a chance to be four frames in front, it’s not a good tactic.

“Out of the two, Mark Selby needs to have that chatter. He’s a little bit, not insecure, but that will be better for Selby than it is for Allen.”

White thinks the match could go either way but at 6-6, said Selby has the momentum.

“There have been a few mistakes, Allen is too experienced to panic but he should be four in front, he didn’t capitalise on that,” he explained.

“Selby has hit back, he was struggling, but all of a sudden he has momentum. The next session they will be weighing each other up again.”

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