The New Zealand bowls team is targeting a minimum of three medals at the New Delhi Commonwealth Games in October.
"We have the players who can achieve more than that," New Zealand selector Terry Scott said yesterday.
The New Zealand team won six medals - four gold and two bronze - from the eight disciplines at World Bowls in Christchurch in 2008.
World Bowls was played under the traditional format of 25 shots for singles and a set number of ends in the pairs and fours.
But the Commonwealth Games organisers have adopted set play.
"Sets make the result unpredictable," Scott said. "But we are aiming to pick up three medals in the six disciplines."
Five players have been retained from the Black Jacks team which dominated World Bowls two years ago, including three who won gold medals.
Val Smith was a double gold medallist in the singles and the pairs, and Andrew Todd and Richard Girvan won gold in the fours.
Smith will be the women's singles player at New Delhi, Todd will be the lead in the triples and Girvan the skip.
The team also includes Jan Khan, the skip of the women's pairs, and men's singles player Ali Forsyth, who won bronze medals at World Bowls.
Khan won bronze medals in the fours at Manchester in 2002 and in the pairs at Melbourne in 2006.
There are five new caps in the team that will also play in the transtasman series against Australia at Bundaburg from May 11-14.
Richard Collett (30) came to the notice of the national selectors when he won his first New Zealand title in the singles last year. He also won the Hong Kong pairs.
He will lead the men's pairs and partner skip Danny Delany, who won a gold medal at the Eight Nations tournament in India earlier this month.
Manu Timoti, who won gold in the fours at the Asia and Pacific Games at Christchurch in 2007, will lead for Khan in the pairs.
The promising Genevieve Baildon, who won a gold medal in the World Cup singles last year, will lead the women's triples.
"She is an up-and-coming under-25 player who impressed during the Eight Nations tournament in Sydney," Scott said.
Dale Lang, another new cap, will be in the middle of the women's triples, while Karen Coombe (triples) and Shannon McIlroy (triples) are experienced bowlers who have proved that they can get results.
Commonwealth Games NZ gold medallists
1938: Bill Bremner, Ernie Jury, Alec Robertson, Bill Whittaker (men's fours); Walter Denison, Lance Macey (men's pairs)
1950: Evan Exelby and Robert Henry (men's pairs); James Pirrett (men's singles)
1958: John Morris and Richard Pilkington (men's pairs)
1962: Robert McDonald and Hugh Robson (men's pairs)
1974: David Baldwin, Kerry Clark, Gordon Jolly and John Somerville (men's fours)
1986: Ian Dickison (men's singles)
1990: Judy Howat, Maree Watson (women's pairs)
2002: Joanna Edwards, Sharon Sims (women's pairs)
