A new New Zealand shearing team is about to pick up the pieces of a shattered World Championships dream on the Wools of New Zealand tour of five test matches against the new best teams in the world in Scotland, England and Wales.
The team is Masterton brothers-in-law, Paerata Abraham and David Gordon, who will shear against Scotland World Championships third placegetters Calum Shaw and Hamish Mitchell in a final this weekend at the Lochearnhead Shears’ Scottish Blackface Championships.
It will be followed by a single test against World Championship runner-up England at the Great Yorkshire Show on July 12.
There will then be three tests against the new World Champion country Wales, at Cothi, the Royal Welsh Show and Corwen.
The Welsh team at Cothi will be Gethin Lewis and Dylan Wyn Jones, who toured New Zealand late in the summer, but a new team will be chosen from events at the Royal Show and could include new World Champions, Gwion Evans and Richard Jones.
