SAM Tolchard, fresh from a stunning victory in the Bowl

England men's singles championships at Worthing, is one of five

Devon players who have been called up by the national selectors

for the Test Series against Wales at Westlecot, Swindon, on

September 18 and 19.

It will be a first senior appearance in an England shirt for

Kings player Tolchard, who will be in action next weekend for

the Under-25 side in the British Isles Series in Scotland.

Players from Devon dominate the line-up for the two-day Test

Series against Wales and the 19-year-old Tolchard will be

joined by county team-mates Lee Haywood and James Webber, from

the Shaldon club. All three starred in Devon's recent

inter-county Middleton Cup final defeat of Norfolk, when they

won the title for the fifth time in seven years.

Also selected to play is 2007 Bowls England Young Bowler of

the Year Natalie Melmore (Kings) who finished in bronze medal

position at the World Junior Cup in Australia in April, and

Junior Commonwealth Games medallist Sian Gordon from the Exonia

club in Exeter.

None of the England players who represented England in the

2008 World Championships in New Zealand were considered for

selection. This will give John Bell, Bowls England's

Commonwealth Games Performance Co-ordinator, the chance to take

a closer look at other players prior to the selection of the

official Commonwealth Games preliminary squad.

England. Men: C Docherty (Cumbria), L Haywood (Devon), I

Honnor (Surrey), N Hope (Leics); M King (Norfolk), J McGuiness

(Bucks), S Tolchard (Devon), J Webber (Devon).

Women: J Christie (Beds), S Davies (Worcs), S Gordon

(Devon), N Melmore (Devon); T Parnell (Durham), C Popple

(Hunts), P Reynolds (Hunts), L Smith (Warks).