Cranfield bowling club


Cranfield Bowling Club

There are different types Cranfield Bowling Clubs in Bedfordshire.

There are different forms of bowling:

  • Ten-pin bowling
  • Lawn bowling
    • Crown green bowling
    • Flat green bowling

Ten-Pin Bowling


As typical in most sports there are slang terms for various happenings in a game. 2 consecutive strikes is recognized as a double. Three consecutive strikes is acknowledged as a turkey. Four consecutive strikes is recognized as a four bagger. Five consecutive strikes is known as a five bagger and so on. A perfect game consists of twelve consecutive strikes, one for each frame and 2 more on the extra rolls in the 10th, which results in a perfect score of 300. A clean game is filling every frame with either a spare or a strike.

At the same time as playing the game, situations can occur called splits. This is when two or more of the pins are separated by missing pins which makes it harder or damn near impossible (i.e. when the two outside pins are left).

Serious club players will use their own apparatus which will comprise a bowling ball (usually 16lb), bowling glove which gives assistance to the wrist, sports top which may well include the name of the team on the back of the shirt and of course your own bowling shoes.

Crown Green Bowling


The game is played in pairs or teams and the idea is to win a game (usually up to 21 or 25 points) or to a specific amount of ends. A draw is viable when playing ends - or depending on the rules you can play more ends until there is a positive outcome. Set scoring can also be played whenever the scoring is lower as the game is split into sets (three of five comparable to tennis). Each player will get 2 bowls usually - can be four each as well where the jack is thrown (usually a white ball or a small black ball with no bias) that the players have to get as close as they can too.


Flat green Bowling

This is the same as crown green bowling pretty much apart from the surface is flat and is usually indoors. The lawn is regularly fake grass.