Ryan Watson (cricketer)

Ryan Watson
Personal information
Full name
Ryan Robert Watson
Born (1976-11-12) 12 November 1976 (age 48)
Salisbury, Rhodesia
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight arm medium
RoleBatsman
International information
National side
ODI debut (cap 21)27 June 2006 v Pakistan
Last ODI28 August 2009 v Australia
T20I debut (cap 9)12 September 2007 v Pakistan
Last T20I7 June 2009 v South Africa
Career statistics
Competition ODI T20I FC LA
Matches 35 10 15 143
Runs scored 956 159 843 3,371
Batting average 30.83 17.66 38.31 26.33
100s/50s 1/6 0/1 2/4 3/18
Top score 123* 54 167 123*
Balls bowled 570 60 842 3,527
Wickets 12 3 19 81
Bowling average 44.00 30.66 23.94 38.44
5 wickets in innings 0 0 1 0
10 wickets in match 0 0 0 0
Best bowling 3/18 1/4 5/74 4/24
Catches/stumpings 11/– 4/– 19/– 56/–
Source: CricketArchive, 7 October 2017

Ryan Robert Watson (born 12 November 1976) is a Zimbabwean-born Scottish cricketer who played limited over internationals and captained Scotland. He currently plays club cricket with Forfarshire CC. Watson is a hard hitting right-handed batsman and is able to bowl both medium-fast and off-break deliveries. He hit the headlines in 2003 when he hit a century off just 43 balls in a game against Somerset at The Grange, Edinburgh. In 2008, he became one of the first three players to be awarded a contract with Cricket Scotland.