Steve Davis gives BBC pundit death stare live on TV after incredibly awkward comment at the World Snooker Championship in Sheffield

Former snooker star Steve Davis has given a BBC pundit a death stare on live television after an incredibly awkward comment during the World Snooker Championship in Sheffield.

Davis took to the screens as Jak Jokes took on Kyren Wilson in the final, with Jones shocking the nation as he reached the event at the Crucible.

Hoever, things did not go as Jones would have hoped as Wilson took a huge 7-1 lead.

Speaking ahead of the play, Davis discussed the match up before a cheeky remark was made by fellow ex-Snooker pro John Parrot.

This did not go down well with Davis, who gave him a death stare as Parrot looked at the camera.

'We know full well in long-session matches, you can get frame after frame, blocks of frames won by players,' said Davis.

'So, nowhere near over yet, but it's an uphill struggle and obviously I think Jak Jones would love to win this session, at the very least 5-4.' 

This left presenter Parrott to cheekily reply: 'It has happened before, of course, in 1985.'

The comment was in reference to Davis being beaten by Dennis Taylor in the 1985 Crucible final, when his missed black at the end of the deciding frame was watched by a record TV audience of 18.5million viewers. 

Taylor potted the black to win snooker's most famous match.

However, Davis wasn't affected by this as he previously told a press conference: 'I think the best moment of my career was missing the black against Dennis Taylor.

'At one stage I was the strongest player in the game so I was expected to win, so those moments when everybody is excited are when you don't.

'With Dennis, that was the best and worst moment of my career because I think it just showed how greatly snooker had been appreciated by the public.'

However, the comment didn't appear to go down well on the night as BBC host Hazel Irvine said: 'That went down like a lead balloon, didn't it?'