With the afternoon session concluded live coverage of the World Snooker Championship on BBC Sport website and on iPlayer has taken a short break.

We will also pause this live text commentary as well.

However, you do not have to wait long until the evening session which gets underway at 19:00 BST. We have two intriguing matches to come.

World number one Judd Trump holds a 9-7 advantage of Hossein Vafaei. The Iranian has been fighting tooth and nail in that one and will doubtless have taken inspiration from the way in which John Higgins fought back against Ronnie O'Sullivan earlier.

The other last-16 match sees Chris Wakelin attempting to pull of a Higgins-esque comeback against Neil Robertson, who he trails 6-10.

You will, of course, be able to watch all the action on BBC Two and via the iPlayer, and follow updates here.

In the meantime feel free to scroll down to see all the highlights, analysis and reaction from an absolute humdinger of a match between Higgins and O'Sullivan.

Incredibly, Wu Yize finished below Mark Selby in all of the statistic metrics below apart from the one that mattered most - the final score in terms of frames.

At 27-66 in Wu Yize's favour, Mark Selby rattles a blue into the jaws of bottom-right pocket.

It proves the key to unlocking the frame for the Chinese player who pots the remaining red before getting himself over the line with three of the colours.

Wu is only 22 and into the quarter-finals of the World Snooker Championship with victory over a four-time champion.

Wu Yize has 61 points in the bag leaving Mark Selby with work to do. Wu fouls by potting the cue ball with a poor safety shot, though, to bring Selby's tally to 15.

With the way the balls are spread this is going to be a from for the artisan rather than the artist.

It's shaping up to be some quarter-final...

Phew. Naturally John Higgins' incredible comeback victory over Ronnie O'Sullivan has had most of our attention this afternoon.

But there's another match on a knife edge still going on over on table two.

Wu Yize is one frame away from victory against Mark Selby but the Leicester player has just reduced the deficit to one frame at 12-11.

There's been a few flashpoints as well.

Selby was a little frustrated with his own game earlier, and slammed his cue into the ground after missing a simple red.

More from John Higgins, speaking to BBC Two after his win over Ronnie O'Sullivan, said: "At times it was the best I've ever seen Ronnie hit the balls. He was cueing it so well. I was intentionally opening the balls up playing my safety shots because he's better than me at safety, playing the flicks, so I was hoping he would miss a long one then it would sit for me.

"The breaks he made to make 12-12 were incredible. You are just sitting there and admiring it. I just felt if I could get in I would have a chance. It's only the second round - that's the way I was looking at it. A great match, but it's the second round. I need a rest but it's only one sleep and then right back into it."

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John Higgins, speaking to BBC Two after his win over Ronnie O'Sullivan, said: "I came to the party at last! That was brilliant. I wasn't too despondent after that first session.

"I know my cue ball wasn't great and playing Ronnie, his cue ball is pinpoint and it can demoralise you, but I was 6-2 down and I told the family if I win the next two frames I had a chance. That was all I concentrated on.

"I came out last night and gave myself a chance. The table has recovered and played a lot better today as well. Ronnie plays with different chalk and that makes it difficult, and makes the pockets seem tighter than they appear to be."

If anything embodied John Higgins' brilliance this afternoon it was this brown in the 22nd frame. I doubt you will see a better shot in the rest of this year's Snooker World Championship.

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Ronnie O'Sullivan on BBC Two: "John played well and deserved his win. He's got a chance of winning the championship if he keeps playing like he did in that session.

"I went into the pack and left myself a difficult red in that final frame, but I probably wasn't the best player over the match anyway .

"I feel like I am enjoying my game and in a better place this month than I have been for a few years but I just missed too many key balls.

"There was pressure out there and I got a big tight and maybe that was because I haven't won a tournament in two and a half years or competed in those types of matches for a while."

"It's a bit of new territory for me and I just have to be grateful for what I've got and build on it."

Ken Doherty
1997 world champion on BBC Two

That was one of the best performances that John Higgins has ever had. He was outplayed in the first session. He dug in during that second session last night to give himself a chance today and wow did he take it.

The snooker he produced today - the century breaks and the clearances - was courage, determination and fortitude.

Michael Emons
BBC Sport at the Crucible

Four-time winner John Higgins produced a sensational recovery from 8-3 and 9-4 down to defeat Ronnie O'Sullivan 13-12 in a final-frame Crucible epic to move into the quarter-finals of the 2026 World Championship.

Seven-time champion O'Sullivan was looking to win an eighth title and set a new outright record in the modern era, and twice he held five-frame leads in Sunday's second session.

But Higgins won the last three frames on Sunday and maintained that form by taking the first three on Monday as O'Sullivan lost six successive frames at the Crucible for only the fifth time.

In a high-quality thriller, played out in front of an enthralled Crucible audience, O'Sullivan won the 20th and 21st frames to regain the lead at 11-10.

In surely the match of the tournament and one of the best in the 49 years at the Sheffield theatre, Higgins won two frames in a row to move one away at 12-11, but O'Sullivan's break of 81 forced a decider.

Higgins had the first chance but missed a red into the middle at 16-0 to give O'Sullivan a lifeline, before the Englishman could only score eight points and failed to pot a red.

The Scot then made a break of 49 on his way to sealing a match-winning frame, with both players getting a standing ovation as the tie finished.

Here's the final statistics from that encounter - but it tells about half the story from a truly mesmerising contest at the Crucible.

John Parrott
1991 world champion on BBC Two

That is one of the greatest sessions of snooker played in this place. Ronnie O'Sullivan had his chance, but for John Higgins that must be one of his greatest-ever victories.

Dennis Taylor
1985 world champion on BBC Two

John Higgins comes back and beats the greatest player of all time in a deciding frame. He has got a lot of heart.

Higgins beats O'Sullivan to win Crucible thrillerpublished at 16:11 BST

16:11 BST

Higgins 13-12 O'Sullivan

Ronnie O'Sullivan leaves John Higgins a tricky red into the middle pocket, which the Wizard of Wishaw cuts in with expert precision.

It's enough for O'Sullivan to concede the frame which gives Higgins the victory.

From 6-2 and 9-5 down, Higgins has produced the most remarkable comeback.

Absolutely stunning.

John Higgins misses a black with the rest after making too heavy a contact on the cue ball. Ronnie O'Sullivan is 57 behind with 59 points remaining.