Mark Sykes was crowned a double champion at the Oxfordshire Indoor finals.

The Banbury Cross bowler took the singles crown with a 21-11 win over Brian Slatter, of Oxford City & County, in a contest that never reached the heights expected.

And he then quickly added title No 2 when teaming up with clubmate Keith Holloway to ease to a thumping 22-4 victory over the father-and-son pairing of Mike and John Philpot, from Oxford & District.

Oxford & District's Steve O'Keefe, Roy Brain and Herbie Paine overcame Chipping Norton's Dave Freeman, Dave Lattimore and Martin Shepherd 19-8 to win the triples final.

And underdogs Graham Kerr, Jim Clifford, Ron Hammond and Brian Garforth, from Oxford City & County, landed the Fours Championship against a strong Carterton side of John Hicks, George Weedon, Andy McIntyre and Chris Weedon, eventually winning 23-16.

  • Oxfordshire's Trevor Brown (pictured) followed up his win in the British Isles Shortmat Championship by being part of the England four that won the World Championships in Belgium.

After topping their group, England took on Wales B in the final - and produced some great bowls to win 14-5.