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Full name Shane Robert Watson
Born June 17, 1981, Ipswich, Queensland
Current age 24 years 26 days
Major teams Australia, Hampshire, Queensland, Tasmania
Playing role All-rounder
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium
class mat inns no runs hs ave bf sr 100 50 4s 6s ct
st
Tests 1 1 0 31 31 31.00 62 50.00 0 0 4 0 0 0
ODIs 37 23 10 380 77* 29.23 557 68.22 0 1 20 6 10 0
First-class 38 66 7 2657 157 45.03 5068 52.42 8 13 18 0
List A 75 59 14 1389 96 30.86 2042 68.02 0 10 16 0
Twenty-20 5 5 1 122 97* 30.50 98 124.48 0 1 3 0
class mat balls runs wkts bbi bbm ave econ sr 4 5 10
Tests 1 114 60 1 1/32 1/60 60.00 3.15 114.00 0 0 0
ODIs 37 1439 1125 25 3/27 3/27 45.00 4.69 57.56 0 0 0
First-class 38 3438 2069 72 6/32 28.73 3.61 47.75 2 1
List A 75 2464 2095 49 3/27 3/27 42.75 5.10 50.28 0 0 0
Twenty-20 5 0 0 0 - - - - - 0 0 0
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Only Test Australia v Pakistan at Sydney - Jan 2-5, 2005 scorecard
ODI debut South Africa v Australia at Centurion - Mar 24, 2002
scorecard
Last ODI England v Australia at Leeds - Jul 7, 2005 scorecard
First-class span 2000/01 - 2004/05
List A span 2000/01 - 2005
Twenty-20 span 2004
Hulklike, blond and spiky-haired, Shane Watson
should be the shiny embodiment of modern-day Australian cricket - if
only that body didn't keep cracking up. Vivacious in all
departments, he is the quintessential young man in a hurry. As a boy
he played for Queensland Under-17s at 15, then went to the Academy.
As a youth he upped and fled to Tasmania, desperate to gatecrash
first-class cricket. Within five games he had clubbed his maiden
hundred; within a year he was picked for Australia. Talent-spotted
with the 2003 World Cup in mind, he ultimately missed out with
stress fractures of the back - the same injury that riddled his
teenage years. Until then his batting had lacked nothing in swagger
and only a little in gap-finding artifice, while his bowling looked
willing if docile. Apart from a nude photoshoot in an arty men's mag
he faded swiftly from view, bouncing back in 2003-04 with four
hundreds from No. 4 for Tasmania. He smashed an unbeaten 300, too,
in a club game for Lindisfarne; then, irked by opposition attempts
to thwart him reaching his triple, immediately ripped out 7 for 29.
He remains the cleanest of hitters and, several remodelled actions
later, decidedly sharp with the ball. Back at home in Queensland (he
hated the cold), he is the hot tip to become Australia's next
champion allrounder - not least in the opinion of Australia's last
one. "He has all the attributes," noted Alan Davidson in 2002. "A
fine physical specimen, good athlete; just give him time." Picked
for his first Test in 2004-05, he landed face-down after his opening
delivery before finding his feet with two wickets and 31. A side
strain forced him out of the one-day tour of New Zealand, and
injuries appear to be the prophecy's greatest danger.
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