Legendary darts pair warned their World Cup days could be OVER after humiliating whitewash
GARY ANDERSON and Peter Wright's World Cup days could be over, according to legend Colin Lloyd.
The high-class duo, with four world titles between them, were smashed 8-0 by the
Netherlands
in the last 16 at Frankfurt on Saturday night.
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Gary Anderson and Peter Wright were thrashed at the World Cup
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Colin Lloyd believes the pair's World Cup future is in doubt
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World No.12 Anderson and
But they 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.
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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.
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'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.
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'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.
'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.'
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