Steve Watkin

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Steve Watkin England (Eng)
Batting style	Right-handed batsman (RHB)
Bowling type	Right-arm medium-fast (RMF)
	Tests	ODIs
Matches	3	4
Runs scored	25	4
Batting average	5.00	2.00
100s/50s	0/0	0/0
Top score	13	2
Overs bowled	89	36.5
Wickets	11	7
Bowling average	27.72	27.57
5 wickets in innings	0	0
10 wickets in match	0	N/A
Best bowling	4-65	4-49
Catches/stumpings	1/0	0/0
As of 14 June 2005 Source: Cricinfo.com

Steven Llewellyn Watkin (born 15 September 1964 in Duffryn Rhondda, Maesteg, Glamorgan, Wales) was a cricketer with Glamorgan County Cricket Club and England. A reliable seamer who never suffered serious injury despite several lesser niggles, he played three Test matches in 1991 and 1993, and four One-Day Internationals in 1993/94. He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1994, the only one of that year's five who was not Australian.

Watkin made his first-class debut against Worcestershire in 1986, taking the wickets of Graeme Hick and Phil Neale, and also played two Sunday League games, but had to wait until 1988 for a second chance. That year he established himself as an important member of the Glamorgan first team, taking 8-59 (which was to remain his career best) against Warwickshire and claiming 46 scalps in all that season. His best year in terms of wickets was 1989, when he took 94, and in his career he took 902 wickets in all.

In 1998, Watkin was given a benefit by Glamorgan, which raised £133,000. A famously poor batsman, he managed to average a startling 35.66 that year, despite a top score of just 25, thanks to no less than 13 not-outs in his 16 innings. In 2000 he scored 51 against Gloucestershire, the only half-century of his career.

After retirement in 2001, Watkin became Director of the new Welsh Cricket Academy.