Strings, new championships, Olympics: IBF CEO Andrew Oram charts a bold new course for bowling’s global governing body

Andrew Oram freely admits that for most of his life he didn’t think of bowling as a sport. The retired elite international cricket player changed his mind when he saw the highest level of bowling as a broadcast consultant at the 2019 World Bowling Women’s World Championships in Las Vegas. Oram’s embrace of bowling was so strong that it led him on a path that culminated in his being named CEO of World Bowling in October 2019. The 46-year-old Oram is a convert to bowling whose ...