CELEBRATED Kent international Martyn Sekjer will be lining up against Hampshire in the Liberty Trophy quarter-final on January 28 - but next winter he could be playing for Peter Line's side.

His job as a branch manager for roofing and cladding contractors Briggs Amasco has brought the 43-year-old skip to Southampton - and if everything works out to his liking, the move will become permanent.

Sekjer is committed to Kent and his indoor club Cyphers for the present indoor season, and is currently commuting between his Gillingham home and Southampton.

Although not playing bowls in Hampshire for the moment, he has joined Atherley as a social member. He has received membership forms from East Dorset after chatting at a recent international trial to Dean Morgan who has also explained to him the virtues of joining his outdoor club Boscombe Cliff!

The prospect of Sekjer moving to Hampshire is an exciting one for the County's Middleton Cup and Liberty Trophy sides - while Atherley, East Dorset and Boscombe Cliff would welcome him with open arms.

He said: "I can't make a commitment to moving house and the children to new schools until I know the job is right for me.

"I have only been here for a short while but if everything works out okay, I will hopefully be able to say "yes" to my firm about staying in Southampton in the early part of the summer.

"I have joined Atherley socially, but I have resisted playing bowls there as I don't want to set a precedent and wish to leave my options open should I decide to settle in Hampshire.

"I am still playing my national championships in Kent, and although the job has made fitting those in more difficult, people there have been very obliging."

Sekjer - 25th in the latest English Indoor BA rankings - has had a superb career in the sport winning a clutch of national and county titles, not only with Cyphers but with his outdoor club Blackheath and Greenwich.

He represented England indoors from 1981 to 1991, apart from two seasons, and he has high hopes of reviving his international career as he has been chosen to play in the senior trial at Nottingham on January 6.

Indoors, he and Terry Heppell have won the national fours crown a record seven times for Cyphers, on five occasions in a rink completed by bowling luminaries Andy Thomson and Gary Smith.

Sekjer helped Kent take the Liberty Trophy 14 years ago and outdoors he has an outstanding five gold medals for winning the Middleton Cup.