DARTS LEGEND FEARS END FOR WRIGHT AND ANDERSON TEAM

LEGEND Colin Lloyd has questioned whether we’ve seen the last of Gary Anderson and Peter Wright as a pairing at the World Cup of Darts.

World No. 12 Anderson and Wright had previously won the tournament together in 2019. 

But Scotland were smashed 8-0 by the Netherlands in the last 16 at Frankfurt this year

Anderson and Wright, four-times world champs, managed just three darts at a double across the match as they limped to a 79.37 team average. 

Dutch duo Gian van Veen and Danny Noppert averaged over 100 and needed less than 13 minutes to take the first seven legs.

Former world No.1 Lloyd admitted time may be up for the veteran pair with Cameron Menzies now bursting into contention. 

He said: “Will it be those two performing next year for Scotland? Who knows. 

“Cameron Menzies is blasting up the rankings, so we might have a different pairing next year for Scotland.” 

Two-time major winner Lloyd didn’t hold back in his assessment of the Scots performance — but insisted credit also had to go to the Netherlands. 

He added: “It was a sloppy performance. They averaged 78 between them as a team. 

“It was very unlike Gary Anderson and Peter Wright. I will defend them on that front. 

“But let’s not take away the level of performance the Dutch put in averaging 100 as a pair.  

“They had plenty of opportunities and they took them all.  

“You would not expect Gary Anderson and Peter Wright to put in a performance like that.

“Listen they would have been disappointed.

“It is a funny old game pairs. Sometimes you don’t feel like you get the flow or rhythm going.  

“And it very much looked like that for those two guys.  

“If they were going to get beat by Gian van Veen and Danny Noppert I would not have expected it to be 8-0.  

“That was a shock. Not that the Dutch beat the Scottish team but in the fashion that they did.”