The World Cup of Darts begins on Thursday 9 September with the latest iteration of the pairs' tournament set for Jena and after the withdrawal of Croatia, the competing countries are set.
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Their line-up of Boris Krcmar and Pero Ljubic had to withdraw due to an illness for the former with Greece once again taking their spot in the line-up with John Michael and Veniamin Symeonidis involved.
Top seeds in Germany will be England which is based off rankings. James Wade and Dave Chisnall will anchor their charge while defending champions, Gerwyn Price and Jonny Clayton are second seeds.
Michael van Gerwen leads another new look Netherlands side with Dirk van Duijvenbode's darting rise seeing him represent his country alongside the Green Machine.
While Belgium (Dimitri van den Bergh & Kim Huybrechts), Northern Ireland (Daryl Gurney & Brendan Dolan), Scotland (Peter Wright & John Henderson), Australia (Simon Whitlock & Damon Heta) and Germany (Gabriel Clemens & Max Hopp) round out the seeded countries.
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