2025 World Bowls Indoor Championships preview
The 2024 Australian Indoor Championships victors will journey to Scotland to face some of the most formidable counterparts on carpet for the 2025 World Bowls Indoor Championships.
Australia’s hopes will be in the form of 2023 mixed pairs champion Kelsey Cottrell and Right at Home Emerging Jackaroo Jack McShane, who will be looking to add to his growing list of accolades from the past year.
Like previous years since the tournament’s rebrand from the World Cup Singles, both players will take part in singles and team up for the mixed pairs event, which Australia has won for the past two years.
The mixed pairs will see the green and gold contingent pitted against strong lineups across the board, most notably against the formidable Guernsey pairing of Alison and Ian Merrien, both of whom have enjoyed an abundance of success on the indoor arena.
Norfolk Island star Shae Wilson and her teammate Tom Sheridan have also been placed against Cottrell and McShane, as has the reigning singles champion in Malaysia’s Nor Farah Ain Abdullah who is in a composite pairing with Swedish stalwart Olle Backgren.
Malta’s Peter Ellul and Connie Rixon are also in the Australians’ section, posing a tricky matchup with their pedigree, while Pakistan’s Muhammad Ayub Quereshi will pair up with Scotland’s Lauren Roddie in another composite lineup.
Cottrell progressed to the singles quarterfinals at Warilla in 2023 and will be looking to go further in her second participation at the tournament.
Her group sees her in action against Rixon once more, with Jersey’s Rachaek MacDonald, the USA’s Giulia Gallo, Namibia’s Diana Viljoen, Turkiey’s Rahsan Akar and Canada’s Linda Ng.
The Queenslander will be striving to continue her strong form that saw her excel on the carpet of Moama at BPL21, winning a second title and claiming yet another All Star nod for her exemplary performances throughout a brilliant week for the Gold Coast Hawks.
McShane was also on song on the Murray, performing in scintillating fashion on his BPL debut, and he will be looking to continue to add to his impressive list of accolades in Aberdeen.
Standing in his way in his singles section are 2022 mixed pairs winner and Scottish star Stewart Anderson, Japan’s 2023 World Bowls Championships representative Takashi Ohira, Hong Kong China’s Anthony So, Macau China’s Johnny Yuk Kay Ng, Netherland’s Jan Sinnema and Pakistan’s Quereshi.
The 2025 World Bowls Indoor Championships will take place in Scotland from April 20-25, 2025, with live streaming details to be confirmed by World Bowls in due course.
