His 11-4, 10-9 victory brought him his third world indoor singles title after a gap of some 18 years – he won back-to-back titles in 1994 and 1995 – and afterwards he declared: “I can't believe I've won the world title again.”
“I'm over the moon and I so pleased and proud for both myself and my family. Jason didn't perhaps have one of his best games today, but he's had a brilliant week in reaching his first-ever final and I congratulate him on that.”
Thomson coasted to a 11-4 victory in the first set without ever being put under pressure by the long-serving Welsh international, 15 years his junior. With Greenslade unable to discover any real consistency and accuracy with his opening bowls, Thomson fully exploited the situation with an impressive performance in the art of draw bowling, his rhythm rarely interrupted as he peppered the jack with almost monotonous regularity.
It was a different story during the opening ends of the second set, when Greenslade, opting for a shorter jack length, suddenly found his range and began to ask some questions of his own only for Thomson to come up with the right answers, producing some stunning bowls to extinguish any possible threat from the battling Welshman.
On the fifth end, with Thomson leading 3-2, Greenslade engineered a strong possibility of a maximum count of four that might have turned the match on its head, but Thomson delivered the goods with his last bowl.
Two ends later, Greenslade was again building was looked like a profitable head, but Thomson came in for shot again, and to rub salt in the wounds played a stunning conversion shot to collect three shots to go 6-3 ahead.
That appeared to knock the stuffing out of the Welshman, who duly conceded a soft four shots on the next end and the final was all over bar the shouting, with Thomson 10-4 ahead with three to play. Greenslade produced a determined last stand with a brilliant conversion shot of his own for three shots on the penultimate end, but needing four on the last end to take the match into a tie-break, he was well short with his first delivery and it was all over.
