James McKeown
Is Watson Truely Australia's Best Batsmen At The Moment?
March 9th 2010 23:01
Australia has been in strong form in the last 5 months thanks to the good form of players making their way into the team and contributing with meaningful performances. Just look at Doug Bollinger who has become a regular starter in the Australian team and spearheads the attack. However, it has been the solid batting perfamnces of Shane Watson at the top of the order which have given the Australians a lot of confidence in recent months.
Watson is by no means new to the Australian team, with him being chosen for Test Matches and One Dayers over the last couple of years but has been hampered by several injuries. these injuries were thought to be end of his International cricket career. This has not been the case and when he got his chance to open the batting in England last year, he took it with both hands.
Since then he has been extremly solid at the top of the order in both One Dayers and Test Matches, getting Australia off to a great start almost everytime. The only thing that could be said against the 2009 Allan Border Medal winner, is that he fails to go on with it. Once making it to 20, 30, 40 or 50. He seems to be content and loose his way. Some of the greats, Ricky Ponting, Sachin Tendulcar and Brian Lara almost never let a good start go to waste and are able to get the big scores to help their team to victory. This seems to be his undoing.
Watson only has one hundred to his name and that was lucky in its self. He was able to get to the 90's as he has done on several occasions, and looked to have thrown it away again but for the Pakistanis to drop another catch and hand him his maiden Test Match hundred. Although, he may not make the big scores he does get his team off to the start they want and one feels that his next stage of developement will be converting those 50's into 100's.
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