There’s a very good reason why giraffes don’t play darts. In fact, there are quite a few, but height is definitely one of the primary ones.

However, that hasn’t stopped Dave Evans from mastering the sport despite being around the same size as those African hoofed mammals, as the Lancastrian chucker proved by picking up the honours at the latest MODUS Super Series event.

Standing at approximately twelve feet tall, the Preston native has developed the skill to score heavily whilst his head is engulfed by clouds. Often, Evans has to stoop so low that his face is millimetres from the board before carefully navigating his tungsten missiles into the requisite segments. That takes some doing.

On Saturday night in Portsmouth, the part-time lamp-post defeated Robert Grundy in an absorbing final to claim the weekly prize of £5,000. You can buy plenty of leaves to snack on with that.

Dave entered the tournament on Thursday and won Group B, putting him directly into the Finals Night mix. After volunteering during the afternoon to act as the pole vault for budding athletes down at the local athletics club, the 36-year-old returned to the Live Lounge on Saturday evening and won both his round robin matches against Jamie Owens and Belgian Brian Raman to reach the semi-finals.

Once there, he cruised past arguably the most ginger player in England, Tommy Lishman, to book his place in the final.

And despite what Darts World said in their write-up, it was in fact Evans who claimed the victory 4-2, not his opponent Rob Grundy. It would be a rather illogical report if I had rattled on about Dave for several paragraphs only for the Hartlepool arrow-smith to end up winning.

Victory automatically puts the altitudinous thrower into the mix for Champions Week where, should the prize money be great enough, Evans can afford an entire orchard to munch upon.

Well done mate. Hope you speak to me after this!