Jack Bird

Jack Bird, born in 1997, is an English international indoor bowler. In 2013 he won the Yorkshire singles and the under 25 singles titles, and five years later, in 2018, he became the English indoor champion by winning the National Men's Indoor Singles title, defeating Ryan Whitlock 21-10 in the final. The next year he added the British Isles indoor title, a run that included a final win over the multiple world champion Paul Foster. He made his debut at the World Championships at the 2021 World Indoor Bowls Championship, where he reached the semi-finals of the open pairs with Stuart Irwin. Indoor bowls is the carpet version of lawn bowls, played in a hall on a long mat with the same biased bowls and white jack. Away from the sport he is a motor mechanic by trade.