A spherical RGP lens would adequately correct the cylinder, however, it would result in a poor physical fit to the cornea. When the corneal toricity exceeds 2 to 3 diopters a spherical base curve is usually not adequate. The lens of choice with this amount of corneal toricity is a toric base curve RGP. The toric BCR lens will fit the cornea and can correct the refractive error (a front cylinder is usually fabricated on the lens to give the proper correction). This lens can also rotate on the eye with little to no effect on vision since any rotation of the cylinder in the contact lens is compensated for by the tear layer.
A toric hydrogel lens could be fitted, however, it would most likely not give good consistent vision as with the rigid lens because any rotation of the hydrogel lens would blur the vision.
