Rob Cross

Rob Cross, known as Voltage, is an English darts player and a former PDC world champion. Born in Pembury on 21 September 1990 and based in Hastings, he was 25th on the PDC Order of Merit when the rankings were last published on 2 November 2026, with £398,500 in ranking prize money over the two-year period the list covers. The PDC credits him with 22 senior titles: four majors, five World Series events and 13 on the ProTour.

Cross won his first PDC ranking title at Players Championship 3 in 2017, beating Mervyn King 6-5, and on 1 January 2018 became world champion, beating Phil Taylor 7-2 in the final of the World Championship after a 6-5 semi-final win over Michael van Gerwen. He won the World Matchplay in 2019, beating Michael Smith 18-13 in the final, and the European Championship the same year with an 11-6 win over Gerwyn Price. He won the European Championship again in 2021, beating Van Gerwen 11-8. He was runner-up at the 2023 Masters, losing 11-7 to Chris Dobey, and at the 2023 Grand Slam of Darts, losing 16-8 to Luke Humphries, and he reached the semi-finals of the 2024 World Championship, losing 6-2 to Luke Littler.

In June 2026 he won Players Championship 22, beating Maik Kuivenhoven 8-5, and reached the final of the Slovak Darts Open, losing 8-3 to Wessel Nijman. Nijman also beat him 2-0 in sets in the first round of the World Grand Prix. In October he reached the last 16 of the Swiss Darts Trophy, losing 6-4 to Jonny Clayton, and lost 6-2 to Gerwyn Price in the first round of the European Championship. The PDC records five nine-dart finishes for him across all of its events, three of them in senior competition. He throws 22-gram Target darts and walks on to "I Don't Wanna Wait" by David Guetta and OneRepublic.