This away fixture saw the county losing it’s first match of the season against a strong Hereford squad. Worcestershire’s squad also found it hard to adapt to the very unique features of the floor/mats. Worcestershire lost by 9 points to 31 with only four wins and one draw from the 16 individual games.
The morning session saw Dave and Richard drawing their Pairs game 15-15. Jim Tingle’s Fours team lost the first end but then went on to lead throughout the remainder of the game to win 13-9.
In the afternoon session, and in a close and hard fought game, Johnathon, in his Singles game was behind for the first 11 ends trailing 9-10 at that stage. With 5 shots from the remaining 4 ends Johnathon ran out winning by 14 shots to 11. In a similar close and hard fought Singles game, Cayman went into the lead in the 10th end and maintained this lead to win 16-14.. The only other success of the day was Terry’s Fours team, narrowly leading for much of the match to run out winning by 12 shots to 10.
Summary of the day’s play is shown below :
