The competing nations for the World Cup of Darts taking place in Frankfurt at the end of May have been announced. The lineup of nations remains unchanged from previous years with the Netherlands out to defend their title.
England's line up will include World Champion Rob Cross as part of it for the first time with Adrian Lewis and Phil Taylor not part of the lineup and the second member of the World Cup team to be announced.
Australia, Wales, Belgium and Scotland will all of course be in action. Some nations have already decided their teams including Brazil who will have Diogo Portela and Bruno Rangel. While Nandor Bezzeg and Tamas Alexits will be part of Team Hungary.
Per Laursen maintains his 100% record for Denmark in the competition partnered by Henrik Primdal. In addition, Kim Viljanen and Marko Kantele will once again compete for Finland.
Daniel Larsson and Dennis Nilsson will compete for Sweden; while Cody Harris and Warren Parry will compete for New Zealand.
Italy's team will be formulated with Michel Furlani and Alessio Medaina with eight nations seeded for the first round draw based on the rankings of the players in the teams.
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