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David Gray fired in a magical 147 maximum break in the fifth frame of his Travis Perkins UK Championship Last 32 match against Mark Selby, on Wednesday afternoon at the Barbican Centre in York.

Gray, whose previous best was 140 in the 1998 World Championship compiled his break exactly seventeen years to the day after Willie Thorne made the first 147 in the UK championship, Back in 1987.

Since then four more have been made, two of them by Stephen Hendry in 1995 and 1999. Peter Ebdon compiled his maximum in 1992 and Nick Dyson in 2000.

David Gray will earn a £31,000 bonus for his superb effort, that's providing nobody else makes a 147 during the event, in which case they share the money.

But this won't be the best break made in this year's UK Championship. Jamie Burnett set an unprecedented world record during the qualifying rounds in Pontin's, making a 16 red 148 total clearance, having started the break with a free ball.

The break helped Gray into a 4-1 lead over Leicester's Mark Selby. It was his first century break this season and the fifty-third of his career.

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