INDOOR bowling starlet Sian Gordon will celebrate her 18th birthday in January playing for England in a four-team home international tournament in South Wales.

The Whitstable teenager, an A- level student at Simon Langton Girls’ School, Canterbury, and a member of the town’s Oyster Bowls Club was selected following a trial at Egham, Surrey, but club-mate Stephanie Crates missed out.

Sian has also been approached to join the Professional Bowls Association after finishing third in the World Indoor Bowls Council Under-25 tournament in Guernsey earlier this month and is aiming to help holders Kent win the Atherley Trophy, the EWBA Indoor County Championship for a fourth year running.

With her bowls career flourishing, Sian is also busy studying English, religious studies and psychology, as well as weighing up her University options.

She said: "It all makes for a very exciting time, and I am thrilled and delighted to have been asked to consider joining the PBA."

Sian qualified to play in the Channel Islands after winning the National Under-25 championship and enjoyed the tournament.

She said: "It was a very high calibre, and I was pleased with the way I played. I won all five of my group games and really enjoyed the matches against the Malaysian girls.

"It was very competitive and as all the players involved were a similar standard it was down to who was best on the day."

She eventually lost to Michelle Cooper in the semi-finals, her first defeat in six matches between the two girls and conceded: "It was her turn to win this time."