Graeme Watson (cricketer)

Graeme Watson
Cricket information
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Career statistics
Competition Tests ODIs
Matches 5 2
Runs scored 97 11
Batting average 10.77 11.00
100s/50s -/1 -/-
Top score 50 11*
Balls bowled 552 48
Wickets 6 2
Bowling average 42.33 14.00
5 wickets in innings - -
10 wickets in match - n/a
Best bowling 2/67 2/28
Catches/stumpings 1/- -/-
Source: Cricinfo, 12 December 2005

Graeme Donald Watson (born 8 March 1945 in Kew, Melbourne, Victoria) is a former Australian professional cricketer who played in 5 Tests and 2 ODIs from 1966 to 1972.

He played first-class cricket for Victoria from 1964-65 to 1970-71, for Western Australia from 1971-72 to 1974-75, and for New South Wales in 1976-77, when he became the first man to play Sheffield Shield cricket for three states.[1] He played minor matches in World Series Cricket in 1977-78 and 1978-79.

His highest first-class score came for the Australians against Hampshire in 1972. He and Keith Stackpole put on 301 for the first wicket, Watson scoring 176 in 234 minutes with 26 fours and five sixes, and taking the Australians to victory by nine wickets.[2]

In all first-class cricket he scored 4674 runs at 32.68, with seven centuries, and took 186 wickets at 25.31, with five wickets or more in an innings eight times and best figures of 6 for 61 against South Australia in Melbourne in 1965-66.[3]

He also played 18 games of Australian rules football for Melbourne in the VFL in 1965 and 1966.[4]

References

  1. ↑ The Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket, Oxford, Melbourne, 1996, p. 566.
  2. ↑ Wisden 1973, p. 308.
  3. ↑ "Victoria v South Australia in 1965/66". CricketArchive.
  4. ↑ The Encyclopedia of AFL 2005, p. 759.

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