willie watson Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
willie watson is a cricketer(sportsman) from New Zealand. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
William Watson
Born
August 31, 1965, Auckland
Age
58 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Fast medium
Playing Role
Bowler
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 15 | 61 | - | - |
Inn | 18 | 24 | - | - |
Runs | 60 | 86 | - | - |
Avg | 5.0 | 7.82 | - | - |
SR | 24.69 | 47.78 | - | - |
HS | 11 | 21 | - | - |
NO | 6 | 13 | - | - |
100s | 0 | 0 | - | - |
50s | 0 | 0 | - | - |
4s | 7 | 6 | - | - |
6s | 0 | 3 | - | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 15 | 61 | - | - |
Inn | 25 | 61 | - | - |
Balls | 3486 | 3251 | - | - |
Runs | 1387 | 2247 | - | - |
Wkt | 40 | 74 | - | - |
BBI | 78 / 6 | 27 / 4 | - | - |
BBM | 90 / 6 | 27 / 4 | - | - |
Eco | 2.39 | 4.15 | - | - |
Avg | 34.67 | 30.36 | - | - |
5W | 1 | 0 | - | - |
10W | 0 | 0 | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- New Zealand
- Auckland
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
unerring stump-to-stump line that forced the batsmen to play out-of-the-box strokes, thereby leading to
their dismissals. He barely gave any pace on the ball, mostly resorting to fastish leg breaks or cutters
that were even more difficult to score off when the surface assisted him. His kind of slow medium pacers,
nicknamed the 'dibbly dobbly pacers' were a rage in the early 90s due to the novelty that they brought to
the 50-over format. In the 1992 World Cup, Watson and three others of similar kind were skipper Martin
Crowe's major innovations apart from his iconic decision to send Mark Greatbatch to the top of the order.
The dibbly dobbly men had a strong impact in the tournament, often having a stranglehold on the
batsmen.
Watson was also persisted with in Tests and though he wasn't a genuine wicket-taker in the longest
format, his accuracy meant that he was a good option whenever the captain needed control. Wickets
came at a premium for Watson who often had to toil for long spells to get one but it didn't matter much as
his role wasn't that of a strike bowler. Despite that, he did have a six-wicket haul and a four-fer, the
former coming in the abrasive conditions of Lahore against Pakistan while the other came in the home
comfort of Wellington. Despite the contrast in conditions, the work put in by Watson remained the same,
he had to slog for marathon spells though his spell in Lahore was far more incisive than most of those he
had bowled. Despite not being a superstar in terms of his numbers or persona, Watson will always be
remembered in cricket folklore for being among the first of the dibbly dobbly revolution.
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Willie Watson was one of New Zealand's "dibbly, dobbly, wibbly and wobbly" quartet of medium-pacers who turned bowling wicket to wicket with slight movement into an art form - Rod Latham, Gavin Larsen and Chris Harris being the other three. It was clear from the time of Watson's international debut, when his 9-2-15-3 helped New Zealand to a comprehensive win over Sri Lanka in a 1986 ODI, that we had a miser among us. Watson would go for more than six an over in only three of his 61 ODIs. In 15 Tests, he finished on the winning side only thrice; his 6 for 78 in Lahore in 1990-91 came in a nine-wicket defeat. The 1992 World Cup was as good a time as any for Watson. Far short of being express, he opened the bowling, using his canny legbreaks alongside his slow seamers, with Dipak Patel, before coming back at the end of the innings. Between them the four bowled 250.1 overs for 1041 runs in the World Cup, and Watson went for only 3.81 per in his 79 overs.