One bowler told the BBC that if bowls was cricket, long mat would be a test match and short mat a 20-20 game. Bowls England says newcomers will get "hooked". "Like boules on the beach or a game of ...

HEREFORDSHIRE Short Mat Bowls Association (HSMBA) celebrated their 25th anniversary in style with the launch of a new team of ...

"I think this is his sport for life." Short-mat bowls is an indoor variation of the lawn game, played on a 45ft (13.7m) x 6ft (1.82m) roll-down carpet with full-size bowls. While the origin of ...

Jason Banks thinks his history making triple World Indoor Bowls title success has come despite not having "as much natural talent as a lot of the other players".

Sessions took place in the JVC Indoor Sports Centre behind the Clock End at Arsenal Stadium, Highbury until 2006, but with the move to Emirates Stadium we expanded the programme and currently run ...

The arrival of the world championships in 1999 has made a sizable impact on Hopton-on-Sea, bringing broadband and gas to the wider village, which lies between the coastal towns of Great Yarmouth and ...