June Dill and Renelda Bean, the Bermuda bowlers, head to the Bowling World Cup in Wroclaw Poland this week.

This year marks the 50th edition of the event and Dill and Bean both earned the right to represent Bermuda at the 24-lane Sky Bowling Centre through the national team selection process.

Dill will be making her fifth appearance at the World Cup, while Bean will be making his debut at the tournament, which runs from Saturday until November 9.

Bermuda’s pair will be up against bowlers from 86 countries with a total of 86 men and 73 women competing for the honour of being crowned the world champion.

Players will be allowed time to acclimatise and practice at the centre before the opening ceremony on Monday. The competition starts on Tuesday.

There will be men’s and women’s divisions, with the preliminaries consisting of four blocks of five games with the top-24 men and the top-24 women advancing to the intermediate round.

Those 24 players bowl a further eight games with the total pinfall from the preliminaries being carried forward.

The top eight men and top-eight women after 28 games will bowl a further seven games of round-robin matchplay, plus one game in the position round with a 30-pins bonus per win and 15 for a tie.

The top-three men and top-three women after 36 games will then compete to determine the overall champions in a best-of-three-games stepladder finals.

Bermuda’s highest finish at the event has been two second-place finishes.

Hattieanne Morrissette, the well-known Bermudian bowler, brought home silver from the 1977 event in Manila, Philippines, and the 1979 competition in Bangkok, Thailand.