It is the eve of the World Bowls Indoor Championships with the Scottish players raring to go in a bumper and quality field.
Ocean’s Grove is 9 hours ahead of Scotland with play due to start at 8.30am Melbourne time (11.30pm).
In the Mixed Pairs competition Julie and Iain will play together. Sophie will form a partnership with last years mens singles champion, Jack McShane (Australia).
Day one matches for Scotland are as follows (UK time in brackets)-
10.30am (1.30am) – Mixed Pairs: Scotland v Fiji
10.30am (1.30am)- Mixed Pairs: Sophie & Jack McShane v Sweden / Australia
1pm (4am) – Womens Singles: Julie v Rebecca Rixon (Malta)
3pm (6am) – Mens Singles: Iain v Ian Dale (Norfolk Island)
3pm (6am) – Womens Singles: Sophie v Carolyn Whitehead (Isle of Man)
5pm (8am) – Womens Singles: Julie v Laura Buttler (Switzerland)
7pm (10am) – Womens Singles: Sophie v Tayla Bruce (New Zealand)
The results can be tracked through the World Bowls match centre – https://results.mc.worldbowls.com/
There will also be live streaming coverage throughout the event. A match from every session will be covered and can be viewed by clicking this link –
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsVFShuPvK3HusJ67xYH7Nw
We hope to update each match result involveing Scottish players on here throughout the tournament also.
Best of luck to Iain, Julie and Sophie!