Two of the greatest players in the history of the sport are coming to Bradford on Saturday, January 31.

Steve Davis and Stephen Hendry, who between them have won 62 world ranking tournaments, will be taking part in the Telegraph & Argus Snooker Classic 2004 in association

with The Sport & Leisure Service.

It will be six-times world champion Davis' third appearance at the Richard Dunn Sports Centre for the T&A's popular exhibition evening.

He also appeared in 1997 against John Parrott and in the last one in 2000 against John Virgo.

However, seven-times Crucible champion Hendry will be making his debut.

Davis has achieved many great things in his career, but arguably one of the finest was breaking back into the game's top 16 at the age of 45 last season.

It was a dramatic reversal of fortune, the 2002-03 LG Cup semi-finalist rising 14 places up the rankings to No 11 having spent 20 successive seasons among the elite.

Davis capped last season by reaching the televised stages of the Embassy World Championship for the first time since 2000.

Such was the Golden Nugget's domination of the sport in the 1980s that it was reckoned he spent more time on television than then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher!

Davis, famously portrayed as being 'Interesting' on Spitting Image, first won the World Championship in 1981.

But he was beaten by Dennis Taylor in the greatest world final of all in 1985 and was a shock loser the following year to Bradford's Joe Johnson.

Hendry, like Davis, has achieved something of a comeback.

Ranked six, he climbed back to second after a consistent 2002-03, highlighted by his victory in the Regal Welsh Open last January.

In the decider at Cardiff International Arena he looked like the Hendry of the 1990s, rattling in four centuries in a 9-5 success over local hero Mark Williams.

Williams got his revenge a fortnight later in the Benson & Hedges Masters final at Wembley, but Hendry also reached the European Open final in Torquay, losing a high-class contest 9-6 to Ronnie O'Sullivan.

In 1990, Hendry was the youngest ever world champion at the age of 21, and his seventh title, when he surpassed Davis and Ray Reardon, came four years ago.

No 1 in the world rankings for eight years, 34-year-old Hendry is undeniably the greatest player of all time.

Tickets, priced £10 and £8.50, are available from the T&A's reception at Hall Ings, Bradford. Play starts at 7.30pm.