'ICEMAN' Alan Warriner's world darts championship challenge melted away on New Year's Day as Canada's John Part knocked him out in the quarter finals.

Former world champion Part started brightly, winning the first set in the deciding leg by going out on 105, making up for two missed darts at double 20 in the previous leg. Lancaster's Warriner bounced back to level the match by winning the second set. At that stage all 10 legs had gone to the player throwing first.

That sequence soon changed as seventh sees Part won the third and fourth sets by 3-1 margins to put himself in control of the match as Warriner failed to produce the form that has lifted him to world number two this year.

Part completed a comfortable victory by taking the fifth set without allowing his demoralised opponent a leg.

Warriner said afterwards: "I started off well where John and I were dart-for-dart and the legs were going with the throw.

"But I had trouble hitting the doubles when it mattered whereas his finishing was immaculate."