Lawn Bowls

Birmingham: India's Women's Fours lawn bowls team, which is being hailed for winning a historic maiden gold medal in the Commonwealth Games, came into the ...

“The only natural grass bowling greens in India are at the Royal Calcutta Golf Club, while the ones at the Yamuna Sports Complex in Delhi and in Ranchi, from where two of the four members hail, are synthetic turfs. Though the team had a five-day camp in London just before reaching Birmingham for the Commonwealth Games, adjusting to the new surface was a big challenge. They had not even practiced much with the new balls that they bought after reaching London so as to avoid the high excise duty back home, officials claim.

India's lawn bowls women's fours team scripted history as they won a gold medal by beating South Africa 17-10 in the final round at the Commonwealth Games ...

In the fours event (where India won the gold) each match is decided after 15 ends with the winner being the team which has the most points. Points are awarded at the conclusion of each end to the team or bowlers who have their bowls closest to the jack. For instance, if team A has three bowls closer to the jack than their opponent’s closest bowl after an end, team A will get three points. The team with the highest points after 18 ends of throws will take the contest. Lawn bowls, also known as lawn bowling, is one of the oldest sports in the Commonwealth Games and has been featured in every edition since 1930. It is normally played outdoors and the outdoor surface is either natural grass, artificial turf or cotula (in New Zealand).

Mridul dominated most of the match and won it by 21-5 against Locke.

The action was back and forth between India and their opponents, who are among the best teams in the sport with 44 medals. Mridul never let the match slip from his grips as after End 11, his lead was 16-4. After End 7, the Indian had stretched his lead to 13-1.

Quartet Lovely Choubey, Rupa Rani Tirkey, Pinki and Nayanmoni Saikia recently scripted history by winning Women's Fours Lawn Bowls gold medal at the ongoing ...

The adrenaline rush and pressure of performing at the highest level is such that celebrating the win is not even the priority for the quartet at this time. But to be honest, we are yet to believe that we have won the gold medal!” A magazine in Australia even published a headlines stating ‘Sharp warning, the Indian’s are coming’. This is a big thing for us as Australia is the home of lawn bowls!”