Yaxley bowler Nick Brett has to settle for silver after tie-break heartbreak at the Commonwealth Games
Yaxley bowler Nick Brett had to settle for a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
Brett and partner Jamie Walker went down in the men’s pairs final to Northern Ireland’s Gary Kelly and Adam McKeown after a tense encounter on Sunday morning.
Northern Ireland won the first set by a comfortable 6-2 margin, but Brett and Walker hit back to take the second set 4-2 to force a tiebreak.
But it was Kelly and McKeown who prevailed thus denying Brett a second successive Commonwealth Games medal. He had won the men’s triples competition four years ago in Birmingham, an event that was scrapped in the streamlined 2026 Games.
Brett and Walker had thrashed Canada 9-1, 8-1 in their Saturday night semi-final after they had survived a nail-biting final group game against India earlier in the day, winning a tie-break 1-0 after the two sets were shared 4-3, 2-4.
England won all five men’s pairs group matches against Namibia (6-4, 5-4), Falkland Islands (9-2, 12-1), Botswana (8-2, 9-2), Cook Islands (4-3, 3-4, 3-0) and India.