Day 2 Bowls World Indoor Championships

This year's final featured four of the best players in the world. It

is time for the ever-popular Mixed It was decided at the final end of

the tie-break. It is Foster and Commentators are Andy Thomson and

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the ditch. You can see the chalk enough? Well, they built their head.

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dropping through. It needs to hurry. but not by much, though. A good

chance for Karen to make this a room for Paul Foster. You would

that a third bowl were he has dropped shots. Once again, a chance

for Darren Burnett to close down this head a little bit. This is

dangers for the Thomas and Foster partnership. That is a good shot.

wonder if Paul will be tempted to run in at it. It should be a draw.

He is confident normally on the side. It needs to hurry! It will be

good for something! I didn't think that was running! He really had to

A clean bowl out, or three! This is a big Paul macro in this game. --

unbelievable! That is possibly the miss of the championship, simply

because it looked perfect and went through such a small gap. I think

we should have that luckiest and unluckiest bowl of the championship.

Aziz said, he thought it was perfect. He couldn't have played it

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to die. Not bad to leave a gap. It is good leading, bowls in their

head. With Paul Foster coming after you, that is all you want. They

need a good one from Karen Murphy you. They must score on this end.

It looks to be behind their head. That is not like Karen Murphy, five

feet short or three or four feet deep. It is normally when the

pressure is on that Karen Murphy starts to respond to things. I

think Laura Thomas has just warned her down in this match. -- warned

is a championship lie. You would be tempted to run up this. It is a big

hit, or did trail really, isn't it? Karen was saying that they really

want you to attack. She is attacking this. I think he is in

all match. He is coming back strong now. He needs to hurry to get

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away. The ball was going to make just, very accurate jack at Rolling

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Laura Thomas. She has won a lot of other Championships on the domestic

front. But this is the step up and she has been a major contributor to

this partnership. She has played her part. Great to play with, Paul

Foster, but I would agree with you, First major final on television and

she has covered herself in glory. Doesn't smile very much on the rink.

A very happy girl off the rink. Deep concentration attack --

required. It just shows you how well Rebecca Field played to beat

Laura in the singles. I absolutely, another talented young player. I

think we will see Paul Foster getting in the cover of balls. I

can understand why Karen played that. It is a difficult shot.

needed to score three, so it was worth a gamble. Darren will try to

trail this, but he will try to put a position bowl in. Doesn't need to

than that. There is still a slight gives Paul Foster a bit of a

problem. He is going up to have a look at this. This is a definite

problem for Paul Foster, here. He has danger if the jack is trailed

into this area. But below that, there is another red bowl and it

can go much deeper into the triangle. I think that green bowl,

Paul will be trying to go one yard beyond that. One-yard on his

Foster was looking for. He just needs to pass his own bowl now and

go deeper. This is where he wanted it. It is perfect. It is a very

good bowl, but there is a definite chance on for Darren Burnett.

difficult one. If he trails this four feet, there is a very good

chances. The is talking about getting this bowl on to the green

bowl and that it removes it. That would bring these other two into

position and also his own bowl. own bowl would have to stay and

that is the danger with playing with that much weight.

alternative is to bring it back into this area. If he is able to

bring it down into that sort of area, just a couple of metres. He

could follow it all the way back Not quite, just got the edge. All

the experience in the world of Karen Murphy and Darren Burnett it

wasn't enough on this occasion. Laura Thomas from Wales and Paul

Foster from Scotland, for four times a world champion have won it

and thoroughly deserved. What a wonderful performance from all of

the players. They contributed to a wonderful final. But the star of

the show was Laura Thomas and Paul Ladies and gentlemen, the winners

are Laura Thomas and and Paul Foster. Another trophy secured by

Paul Foster, he and Laura Thomas are this year's mixed pairs

champions. Paul Foster will be going for a third title and he

features in the BBC's coverage on Wednesday afternoons. He is up

against Jason Greenslade for spot in the quarter-finals. It is the

men's singles we are concentrating on. And this is one of the

brightest, young stars, Scotland's Stewart Anderson. Stuart Anderson

He was runner up in 2010 at the age of 23 and was up again Steven Allen.

This went to a tie-break which is match, no doubt about it. 26 years

foot off the pedal a little bit in the second set and Stephen Allen

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moved in. It has been a high- played the draw shot throughout the

second set, that was a little bit loose for him. Need to get past,

otherwise it is a target. Tie- breaks are different, you only have

to score the end, it is not accumulated. Looks a better line in

this time. How is the pace? It needs dead pace. Still a touch

quick. Stewart Anderson, back position or against. I don't think

he will be worrying about the back position. Tie break is all about

getting a shot. He will be looking was the last bowl of the end, I

think you would be running it at this. However, you have to finish

close. I think he should draw. He was very close before. If he is

getting to the jack and pulls it back, it is fine. The other

alternative is to go for the bowls or run the jack all the way through.

If he gets the Bowls, I don't think he is leaving anything close enough.

If he gets the jack, obviously he could bury it in the ditch. Lots of

choices. The way he has been playing, you would say he should

has been so good in this match. First end to the world No. 9,

is to give the jack away, and he has done that. He wants the last

bowl of this end. Stewart Anderson in the first set was very effective

on the short jack lengths. But as this match progressed, he started

to go a little bit longer each time. I know you don't want to take his

chance at the end in the tie-break, but I just wonder at 23, 24, just

to shake things up a bit. It would have been a brave decision to make.

That is a good start. I am not sure how the tactics changed during the

match and how the players have to adapt. Preconceived game plan does

not always work. Only works if you win 2-0 and quite easily. That

doesn't help the cause. The Steve Allan. Stewart Anderson staying

well away from it. He would have been tempted on the backhand.

might have been playing for the spot, he might have been thinking

ahead. Even this spot doesn't look terribly good with that front the

green one is going to be hard to get it there. He needs a dead pace

of this hand. He is close. He needs dead pace of this hand. A perfect

bowl. I think it has won the green. Allan. It would be interesting if

they couldn't split them. favouring his bowl, otherwise he

certainly would have attacked it. He is playing the blocker. He must

think he has the shot to play that shot, definitely. The he has not

not have played -- Stewart Anderson would not have played that shot

attack this. Stewart Anderson has blocked the draw. He needs to use

speed, open this up and give himself a chance. You just feel,

Gregg, that any disturbance and aces and you're playing poker, you

still feel the need to check that there are still there! He is just

checking to make sure that he has the shot. This is nitty gritty

stuff here in the second round of the World Professional singles.

Stewart Anderson deciding to go curious to see if he would try to

block it again. This is a fingers crossed job for the world No. 9.

This is an incredibly difficult shot for Steve Allen. If he is

inside the line, they cut over so quickly. He is showing a bit of

interest in this. I think he has a chance! He has got it! The little

flick on the front one was enough to move the jack. Second end, Steve

I thought it was going to fade away, but a beautiful glide. It was

fortuitous, but it wasn't a terrible fluke. That goes down as

being rather lucky, but he had the courage to play it with the drawing

weight, which is good. To the edges and then did jack when you're going

you don't. Both players have to forget that now in good, this last

end. -- forget that night, and get Anderson? He is fairly cool. He is

on the jack again! Stewart Anderson.

mate, you have no time-outs left. Just on the wrong side there. He

would you can nominate to destroy the end and reclaim it. -- replay

it. He has gone for the draw. He doesn't like it at all! So, what do

you do? Do you go on to the re-spot hoping he won't collect, or put in

a blocker to make sure he can't kill it? I think I would play the

block. The block is not easy. It is a hard shot, and a shot that isn't

played very often. He is going for the re-spot. You can't really blame

him. He is probably thinking that's he played the perfect block lack

end -- perfect block last ends and didn't win! He has nominated to

kill the end! He has to get the jack and nothing else will do. He

That was a brilliant try. He got there to bowls without meeting the

green bowl too far. You thought the green bowl have to go! He was

definitely aiming for the jack. If you can get more than the 100 %

been getting in that sort of distance throughout the game, but

with one bowl to save the game, not that easy! Steve's pass to bowls

have saved the match. I wonder if his name is on this game? It is all

about nerve and bottle. The line is good enough. I think he has done

this! Great bowl by Stewart Anderson! Pure, pure class. He wins

a wonderful game. Both players played brilliant stuff. He wins it

with the last bowl. Fully deserved. He dominated the tie-break. He news

3 to the quarter finals. So, Anderson used forward to the

quarter-finals after a dramatic tie-break. There was one

outstanding match from the first round still to be played. Jonathan

Ross to the first set, Pat Briscoe took the second set and once again

of winning the end, you don't have to worry about the number of shots.

Jonathan Ross, the bowl should have been in the bag enough to the

changing room. She was just too is running. The adrenalin kicking

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Just to draw. A couple of brilliant bowls in the last end, and suddenly

it is wavering a bit. I think the adrenalin was going after the last

-- Jonathan Meades another good Briscoe to draw this in with those

two from bowls and the way. -- front bowls. Jonathan Ross, the

world No. 11 really should not be in this position. Time-out called.

weight from his last couple of bowls to get this. He overplayed it.

He has had three chances to get into that. It doesn't look like

Jonathan is going to play his last one. He has had to declare their

head. Generally in bowls, people are very honest. That was a very

flat first enter the tie-break. -- end to the tie-break. The three

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very heavy bowls from Pat Briscoe, needs a tight to bowl on this. A

little bit too open. Looking good. That is the one. You have to trail

a jack through an don't monkey do now? Does he play the cover shot

or does he try to tidy up the head? I would say he will probably try to

tidy it up. We cannot cover or the bowls at the back. He is asking the

commentary box what to do. I haven't got a clue, Jonathan. What

are you asking me for? There is an option to go into that sort of area

in the hope that he gets it right. The problem is, if you block and he

does get the jack, you have the the forehand. If he touches his own

bowl, it will be harder. It is going deeper. He is leaving him the

shot. I don't think I would have played that deep. I probably would

have gone in between the back two greens. It is a difficult one for

Jonathan, he cannot cover every possibility. Controlled weight.

Bowl first, stay in. Bowl and jack, take it over to the greens. And

number of opportunities here. Never pace. Jonathan Ross's reaction. He

fought a very hard for that. He was without doubt, the player you would

have expected to win this match comfortably. But it was a struggle

in the end against Englishman, Pat Briscoe. We have to say, he was

good value for it in the end. He played the tie-break better. This

is how the draw looks for the men's between David Gourlay and Alex

Marshall. It is a very healthy lead for David Gower late. -- David

Gourlay. I would be slightly concerned if I was on the end of

that score at the moment. Slightly concerned! I think I would be very

concerned if I was on the wrong end of that score. I would be getting

my cart Rev it up because it is a bad position to be in. -- car

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It is not looking good, but it is this one. That's just a little bit

Plenty of time on the clock. Looks like he is turning his back on it

very quickly! It means its pace and poor poll by David Gourlay. If he

had put that one on the jack, Alex would have been in trouble. He has

still got the space to draw this shot. Swopped on to the backhand.

He was contemplating this from the last bowl. He has dropped it.

Disappointing, John? He will be disappointed himself. He sets high-

standard, Alex, and he knows that It hasn't been a good end for David.

So much space. He is shaking his head. He knows they heard isn't

good enough. -- the head. Good line, both players. Those ends are very

dangerous aren't they, when both players struggle? A it was

important for Alex to get something out of that end. He will be

thinking he should have got something out of that. But that is

the way it goes. No two days of the same. He was without a shadow of

the doubt outstanding in the pairs. He really was. He had to be the way

his opposition, particularly Stuart that is all. But it looks like more

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will settle for 10 to win the set. something at this end. David

Gourlay, to be fair, would be happy to lose a single and take another

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end off. He will try to keep the good. It should just sneak in for

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Gourlay as well. It just needed to one. It is under. Did not push it

through it. Bit of a chance to rest on the green bowl. But he knew out

of the hand, it wasn't right. Playing at this level, it doesn't

take much to know the bowl is wrong David Gourlay. Right in for number

one. That won't be easy to move out of space. Failed with the first two

Bowls but Alex didn't capitalise. He is in trouble again. Looking for

a good result this time. Again, on the target area, but got nothing

out of it. This was really more of a hit and hope. Didn't have much on.

He is fighting the tide. In the is in trouble. I cannot see any way

out to myself. The Alex Marshall just knew it wasn't going anywhere

at that stage. It was impossible in terms of the new matrix of the

actual end. But there is no 0.4 stop Alex Marshall takes the defeat

on the chin. David Gourlay wins this 2-0 and was two per been doing

it. Congratulations to David Gourlay, his quest for a second

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