WITH coloured bottoms now permissible in EBF county team championships and national finals, the NBF have decided to register black trousers/shorts has their preferred choice applicable from the start of the outdoor season.
Therefore, the Adams and Newton teams will wear black bottoms with their orange county shirts, and individuals can also wear black as an option to white in the national finals at Skegness, and the following year’s indoor finals at Lincoln, but in team events, such as pairs and triples, all players must wear the same, either black or white.
In mixed events, the male players can wear black if they so wish, even if the female player continues to wear white.
With regard to shorts, players can now purchase them from any approved bowlswear manufacturer, with or without an EBF logo, but they must not contain a Bowls England motif.
Players will continue to wear grey bottoms in the county competitions up to the final, where white will be worn, unless their individual club has registered with the county an alternative colour to grey or white, and then that colour can be worn through all rounds of the county competitions, including the final, but once again players must all wear the same in pairs and triples.
A couple of other notable changes to the rules coming into force this year, include the veterans age for men being reduced from 65 to 60 from the start of the next indoor season to fall in line with the ladies, and teams can now field an all-female rink in the Dan Duffy county team competition which leads to qualification for the following year’s Durham Centenary Trophy.
