In their pre season friendly against Worcestershire, Warwickshire had an encouraging 13-7 victory. Playing at home Warwickshire men stormed to a convincing 10-3 win thanks to David Harris, Colin Fowler, Gary Podmore, Tony Brown, Trevor Frost, Peter Rouse, Pat Koyce, Steve Sharpe, Ian Murdock and Steve Dwyer. Winners for Worcestershire were Carl Jones, Martin Gisbourne and Neal Cooper.
In the ladies match every single game went with the darts advantage and all but the sixth encounter finished as 3-0 results. In that sixth game Vicki Byrne (Worcs) won the second leg against Julie Liddell, but then lost 3-1. Other winners for Warwickshire were Caroline Pike and Debbie McPherson giving the visitors the 4-3 win which was supplied by Carol Jones, Tracey Bishop, Bett Sinnett and Pam Hemming.