ROYAL Wootton Bassett Bowls Club are to host a special game against Disability Bowls England at their green at Tanners Close on Sunday, May 15 starting at 2.30pm.

The match will be a five triples affair over the full 18 ends.

The visitors team will compromise mostly of partially sighted bowlers and be drawn from players from all parts of the country including London and Home Counties, Weston-super-Mare, West Country, Midlands and Yorkshire. The team coach is from Somerset.

Making her debut for the Disability Bowls England side will be Royal Wootton Bassett member Jeannette Maisey who has been involved in the organisation of the special game.

“It will be my first time of playing for them and hopefully the first of many games for Disability Bowls England,'' said Maisey.

“I will just have to see how it goes. The team they are bringing has players from all over the country so it is a good representative side.”

Royal Wootton Bassett bowls club chairman Ian Tanner added: “It will be the first time we have held a disability game at this level but not the first.

“They are all able-bodied with the majority of them suffering from a visual problem so they will put strings down at the sides of each rink to help them.

“Going back a few years we previously used to have a fixture each year against a disability team drawn from the Cheltenham and district area but that finished sometime ago.

Spectators are welcome to attend the game with refreshments and a bar available during the afternoon.