Mark Selby beat fellow Englishman Shaun Murphy by 18 frames to 15 in the final to win snooker's World Championship for the fourth time in eight years.

Selby is now level with Scotland's John Higgins on four world crowns, and only another Scot,Stephen Hendry (seven), Welshman Ray Reardon (six), and two other Englishmen, Ronnie O'Sullivan and Steve Davis (six), have won the event more in the modern era.