Day 2 Bowls World Indoor Championships

welcome to highlight of the 2014 dollars championship. Paul Foster

and Laura Thomas were hoping to successfully defend their title.

Laura Thomas from Wales and Paul Foster from Scotland.

Look at this. The first major final on television. She has covered

herself. Saving herself. Number one. Content normally on this site. He

needs to hurry. They have won it. It is very

deserved as well. Paul Foster. It is looking decent

with this one. Great try. Draw up hard. Good

effort. It is not as sharp as is normal bowl. He is using his same

one. He could not do anything else. The rink is a little bit different.

It looks like a slightly different profile. Is slightly miffed the

jack. This looks like a good line. He

needs to hurry to get past otherwise he will get a format. A missed

opportunity to up by Laura Thomas's two balls.

It will be surprising for Paul Foster to miss this one.

There might be a full house. It will be close. Two cans to go after this

and then a single hand. Then that'll be it. -- two hands.

He cannot believe that. It is a missed a chance.

If you have a mortgage, you would have put it on that. Normally, he is

Mr reliable. Katherine Rednall is not wasting

time. It is a good line. A bit of a disturbance there.

Somebody's mobile phone going off. Good bowling. It sat on the green as

well. It is locked in. They will drop on a Bornean. They

will tidy it up. He needed another couple of feet on

that. Andy Thomson is looking for anything available. I do not think

so. He can run the jack. He is looking at the jack right at the

back of the rent. -- rink. It would be hard. This has to work.

Thus will do. A good drive-by Andy Thomson.

He gets a double. That is interesting. That was the problem

for Paul Foster in his last delivery. When you tidy up and do

not make it, you are vulnerable at the back of the rink. Occasionally.

There are two core three chances with the opposition. You have to

pick one of them to stop them playing. It is a really good strike.

They are going with a longer jack lengths.

That is a good opener. They will try to get close to this. Good stuff.

He was pleased with that. Come on, girl, he said.

That is very good. Laura, you can try to squeeze that.

Great asset. Yes. That is brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. You think you

will do it well to put a second in. She has pushed the jack onto ball.

Just as the doctor ordered. Well played.

He would have liked to have me that with the first one. He has options.

Two seconds. Paul Foster is right when he said he cannot go near it.

He will wander down to have a look and a chat. You have to be careful.

The red ball is vulnerable. Can he come in on the other side and get in

and around the red? If he can get into that position, it would be

good. He might like the red ball in. There are so many options. He has

the ball at the back. It will be a vital ball if he starts to hit

things. I think that is the best way, to go back down on the

backhand. If Andy Thomson plays the ball, he is likely to get back on

the jack. Less chance he is giving the shot away as well. He will be

safe enough on the wayside. Will it be useful? Not quite. It is

Andy Thomson the draw. The board is still there to be

removed. A difficult shot for Andy Thomson. It is a controlled weight.

Just over the draw. He must think he is reaching. That

is all it comes down to. Is he going to run? Does he have the width?

Perfect line. The first set to Laura Thomas and Paul Foster.

Katherine Rednall and Andy Thomson could not stop the pair from taking

the first set. Or the second set. Congratulations.

Time to focus on the men's singles competition, featuring many of the

sport's biggest names. First up, one of the most improved

players on the circuit. We join in at the start of the tiebreak.

It will be a difficult one to call. My goodness, that was perfect. Very

controlled. He is back again. It is up. Counterpunch. Nobody has

been knocked out. It looks a little bit on the high

side. Clear all the way through. That is OK.

He's just underneath. The width was very good. With the last ball, he

would not have played any better. He's thinking he has one foot in the

quarter-final. He could not do anymore. Bight he will be up for the

next one. On the keep aside. -- deep side. He

misses his own green ball. He has a chance with the two red ball is. It

is not an easy shot. The only other option is to draw it and drop off

the ball. He needs to come back very deep. He

is just over it. We thought it would be more aggressive. Nick Brett takes

a single. So far, my prediction is working.

But I still will not give much money on it.

Once again, a slight advantage for Nick Brett. He had the last ball. 27

metres. Nick Bracks, one up in the tiebreak.

He has the last ball. -- Nicky Brett. Mervyn King, first one on it.

This is slightly different. It is not and are committed shot. That is

why Nicky Brett is playing weight with the first delivery.

I didn't think he was going to miss it. It is still too many. And

getting a little bit edgy here. He knew he was on the inside. It was

just one under. I didn't think he needed to be that

close, to be truthful. He surely has to go again. Here we go.

It is very close this time. It turned out to be a beauty. Nicky

Brett shook his head. He thought that. He must have been thinking

there was no way. It has gone very well for Mervyn King.

He is trying to drop one in. It is close but not too close. That is

good. That is really good. Are you going to go again? The last weight.

Would he hold? It is going under. It will have to be covered by Mervyn

King. It will be difficult to cover that. I just wonder what he will do.

The last ball is about seven or eight inches from the position.

The respot position is here. The alternative is to drive the ball.

That is unusual. It will be difficult to get to that position.

It is sufficiently far away. I met in Australia that would be a

definite option. But it is not Mervyn King's game. We have seen

people pay that. But it is not easy to cover the respot when the

opposition is so close. Nicky Brett will have a shot. Yes. He wants to

push the ball further away from the respot. He has pushed it right on

top of it. This goes on to the respot position and the jack goes

back as close as possible to the front of the respot. Nicky Brett,

you hit this either side of the jack, if it goes off, you will win

the match. He looks under two. Mervyn King,

stretching through to the last and of the tiebreak. -- end.

The first polls in this direction in particular have been good. Brett

seems to like this direction on the forehand in particular. -- bowls.

The rules have changed again, the only time a player can nominate to

kill the end. They replay it in the same direction. They are only

allowed to kill it once, but they can nominate as many times as they

wish. It's been blow for blow. Suzanne still looking pensive. No

emotion at all. I'm getting a copy of this match, I really am. This has

been fantastic. Well, what drama here. Absolute

drama. It sums up everything that is good about this championship. Great

players, rate coverage, wonderful bowls. This has been out of this

world, it really has -- great coverage. Tremendous bowling. I tell

you what, John, I've got a lot of copies of different matches over the

years, but this is one that I'm definitely going to get.

going again, Nick, looking for the edge to get the Greenaway. It is

close. He has got it. -- the green away. That will be hard to get to.

There's no way it will be a dead end now because the jack is live in the

ditch. This is going to be tricky. Mervyn King will have two goes at

this. No matter where he puts this, I think he will be after it. The

problem for Nick is he has only got one bowl. I'm surprised he is

playing it on the open hand, I thought he might have played it on

the backhand and let its wing across. It will be hard to hold this

bowl up. If he stays on he's very good. He's very good indeed. That is

a tremendous bowl. No matter what happens, if he takes it away he is

leaving Mervyn a shed load of space to repeat it. I don't think he can

take it off. Beaded on the draw, John, that will be tough. It's his

only option -- beat it. He has pushed this well out. As he got the

wait? If he has he is close. A beautiful line, I'm not sure if he

has pushed it, though -- has he got the weight. It is a great effort but

it's not there, Mervyn King will take the third in a tie-break. A

wonderful game between the divisional number six and the

divisional number two in the world. A super game but Mervyn King gets

over the line 3-1. So, Mervyn King, the 2006 champion,

just edges out again Mickey Brett and he is through to the

quarter-finals. Congratulations to him -- Nikki. Next it is Paterson

against Greenslade. This was also a good match between two high-class

players. We are joining it in the eighth end of the sixth set. It is

65 and six after Paterson took the first set. -- 65 and six -- 6-6.

I often think this would be a great place for the home international

series. Accommodation on site. The accommodation is absolutely first

class, it would be great from that standpoint. I don't know whether you

would quite get enough people in. Obviously you would lose the stands

because the rinks are under the stands. Obviously we normally get a

good number to support the home internationals. It's always a good

venue here. Once again Robert back in action

again with his first delivery. He is making a run for home now. Last

bowl, ten inches. A small correction. Looking back front

touch, in control of another end. Judy Potter there. Resplendent in

mint green. Bronze Age competition for charity to guess what colour of

jacket she will were on the last day -- runs a competition.

I did ask Judy once how many jackets she actually had, and she did tell

me the answer but I won't repeat it. It is quite a few. It is

absolutely scary. Quite a wardrobe, Judy. Plural.

A chance for Robert. If he can get to the red it would be perfect. A

very wide line on this one. The line turned out to be perfect. Jason's

got a chance here. They are good Bowls, but I don't think they are

winning Bowls -- bowls. In the first said he would have driven it off.

Now he is contemplating a little touch on the jack. Anyone else would

be drawing, driving to the bowl. He doesn't want to get his own two. He

is close to the jack. He got the edge, lucky. That is what he was

looking for. -- unlucky. He has taken his own away. That was always

the danger. He was taking his own two out if he missed the bowl right.

Really unlucky, without a touch on the green he was without a jack.

100% for having a go at it. No doubt about that. He is a very brave

player. Now he is in trouble. He is in a heap of trouble. Can Robert

turn the screw? Can he get really close? This is effectively a match

lie. He needs to draw the shot. I'm not even sure second bolt would do,

he needs to draw the shot. -- second bolt. He's not sure about this one

the way he let it go -- second bowl stop

He wasn't sure when he let it go. Keeps him in the match. Wonderful

draw shot by Jason Greenslade. Pick the bones out of this one. The

biggest pressure bowl of the match so far. Brilliant. Match lie against

him, brilliant shot. He has had this swashbuckling style

of play for some years. It has held him in good stead. He has got

himself in a position to force this match into the tie-break. This is

effectively a tie-break end. Won't be looking for twos and threes, it

is whoever scores this end will either win the match or extend the

match into a tie-break. Not a great opener. Anything but short is good

for Jason. now, Rob, your first bowls have been good, the last few

ends. Decent again. Can he nail it? Just running a little bit. Still

good. A swap to the forehand for Jason. Tremendous line. He is

certainly a lot closer as it comes towards the jack. It is looking

good. Would suggest you still need one a

little closer than that to win the end. Switching back to the

backhand, looking to beat his own bowl. Not worried about the back

this time, just going for the shot. He is not very wide. He is

definitely on a narrow line. That will drift away no matter what

happens. Slightly slower on that inside line as well. This is the

ball you want to do it with, the third delivery, you want to get the

shot here. It is just the draw but the takeout is an option. If it is a

drawer... He was so close to the last one, any drop on the way and he

will be good. A timeout. You always want to do it with your third -- on

the way. You don't want to leave the pressure on your last bowl. P has

been in the area with the last two, so this should be somewhere about.

Playing to his strengths. The line is certainly good enough. He is

stalking it down. He feels that the pace is good as well. Definitely

better with this one. He has got it. Really played that well. He kept his

nerve, he drew the shot, a nice lie. One foot into the quarter-finals. He

has left Jason with nothing but a draw here. Jason has no timeouts

remaining. Jason taking his time as we see this ball come down, it

looked perfect all the way. There it goes, on the ball, drops in for the

shot. Now, Jason, can you win it out or draw the shot? He is going for it

out. It looks under to me. It doesn't look right. Surely he has

missed it. It was a great ball by Robert Paterson after the first two

ends. He was six hyphen zero down, progressed really well, scoring

three singles, a double and another two zeros -- 6-0. He goes into the

quarter-finals. This is how the last 16 looked after that match.

There's one more match outstanding from today to bring you news on,

that's between Les Gillett and Jonathan Ross.

A tough game for Les Gillett against Jonathan Ross, he has won the first

set. That is what Les needs to do.

Another foot on that and it will be a really good bowl, needed a bit of

room. He has been left out of the Scottish

International indoor team this year. He has been playing with them for

the last few years. So Jonathan has got a bit of an edge in his game, he

wants to prove the fact the selectors were wrong to do that. A

good run here might help. Large teams and six rinks of four

players. 24 players. When you consider how many boulders there

are, it is quite an elite group. Scotland has strength in depth. Not

many poor players in Scotland. A tough team to get into. That has got

a chance. Changing onto his forehand I would have thought.

It has got to be tempting for Jonathan to run the two off. A

decent size of target. Still an open draw on his backhand side. He

doesn't favour running those for hands, so he might stay away from

that. He is deciding to draw. First the weight shot on his backhand.

Now he has got a chance. Just the wrong side of the red one.

Really, Les, he has got options but he could play the same bowl, draw it

in and close it out on the backhand side. If he turns the jack a few

inches he could get four out of it. It is his forehand, so he can go in

on the wide side. This will take a big heavy dip on the right-hand

side. Not quite enough. It looks like a decent line for

Jonathan. So, Les Gillett, world ranked world

number 19. Fighting his way back in this second set. 5-2 down, now 5-4.

Three ends to go. The mat is well up the rink. 24

metres. Lets see how Les gets on with his first delivery.

The short jack means he is playing his backhand. Just making it.

Jonathan coming down to have a look.

There are choices for Jonathan Ross. He will have a look at the Angles.

He can draw either side, not a particular problem with that. But

there is also a temptation onto the green ball. He will take a timeout.

But I fancy the runner on this. Playing them pretty well, he has

been getting results from them. Decided on the draw. Of this has to

be very accurate. -- this has to be. Always useful if he didn't want to

play that split with the next bowl. All three bowls will have

disappeared, Les will try to get one behind the jack if he can. We

normally find this is the key end for any player that's in front. Win

this and the opposition is really chasing things.

I don't think there will be any messing about this time. 24 metres,

a decent sized target. Three balls wide.

On his favoured backhand for hitting.

What a result. He has ended up with a front toucher as well. Les has

absolutely no shot. There is nothing for him. What a result for Les. He

is smiling but he is thinking, my goodness me. This is not my night

for this. That is an unbelievable bowl. If anything, Jonathan, he hit

the target, the centre bowl, but he couldn't have anticipated a result

like that. Unbelievable. Heeded, the outside red and the Green. I thought

he would end up two down -- he did -- green. It is a bit cruel on

layers to be honest. Les might be advised to get past this and cover

the other potential shot. He is trying to draw. Oh, no. He has got

an opportunity now, Jonathan. Jonathan could win this virtually on

this. Any movement on the Jack through the rink. He has to play

this -- jack. With the jack through to there he will bring in his other

two bowls, his own bowl will probably run through. He has drawn

it on the backhand. Well, not to sound surprised, I think that was a

chance. I have to say that you talk about

the rub of the green, whether that be in bowls, snooker, other things.

The reality is that Jonathan Ross has definitely had the luck in this

match. Realistically he's probably only one

shot away from a place in the quarter-final. Yes. You're right

there, Dave. He just needs to score this end. I thought he might have

played that shot on the last end, it was a big opportunity. That is a

good start. Jonathan's last quarter-final in

singles was the International open in Wales. That was three years ago.

-- international Open. You have to go back to 2006 for

another international Open The last quarter-final in the world

singles is now ten years ago. It is a big hurdle for him.

The is nine inches. Five inches past -- the gap.

Les needs a really big bowl, John, to have any sort of a chance. He has

underplayed this. It's not going to be with this one.

I think that is pretty hard to beat, that situation, John. Jonathan

has to be careful here because he doesn't want to leave a shoulder. If

he can draw in and turn that front green down, underweight, though,

missed his line. I think the layers will have to attack this. -- I think

layers. It is virtually a match lie against him -- I think Les. He has

to play into it. His backhand would give him better odds with his

left-hander. The chance of getting the short balls into the jack with

the two green bowls clean. Not an ideal position. He could end up with

half of those bowls going away and still be in trouble. Not easy. I

think he has to play it. Yes. It looks narrow to me. Doesn't want to

get his own back, though. It's going to be a disaster. That's a

nightmare. Poor old Les. That isn't happening, Razor. That is his

nickname, not just because he hasn't shaved for a couple of days.

Now he is in deep trouble. It is going to be very difficult, he has

only got a dead draw now. Jonathan really should be going with this.

Anything past the red is good. It's not bad. I think he has to go again,

John. Bowl on to bowl he has got a chance, he will stay in with the

red. It is so difficult to draw the shot the way it is sitting. Yes. Not

a good position. He will try to draw the shot. Good on him for trying the

difficult shot. I don't think he's going to make it

for weight. He's going to lose a double. Match over. Two shots to

Jonathan Ross. He takes the second 8-4having won the first 7-6. As

Jonathan Ross from Paisley in Scotland goes through to the

quarter-final. Congratulations to Ross, he is

through to the quarters where he will face an inform Mervyn King.

Here's a reminder of what's coming up on the BBC on Wednesday.

The second trophy of the week has gone to Paul Foster and Laura

Thomas, they are the mixed pairs champion but there's plenty more

still to come. We will see you soon. Goodbye.