The Mercurial Shane Watson - Textbook Drives

Love him or loathe him, there is little doubt that when Australia's talismanic all-rounder, Shane Watson, gets his front pad out of the way, there is no better driver of the cricket ball in the world today.
Here is a short highlights package of some of Watto's greatest front-foot drives, mainly down the ground or over the bowler's head.
Clips courtesy of Nine, Fox Sports and Sky Sports U.K.

[@abdullahshahzad333]

Nowadays everyone is arguing about babar's and kohli's cover drive. While in reality, watson had the most beautiful cover drive ever.

[@XXXmar123]

say what you want about him, but when hes one of the most beautiful strokemasters of the game. his pulls and drives are so perfect

[@hectorhealy5880]

+Ben Sugden what r u saying keyboard warrior

[@suggo27]

wow

[@alvinstraughn4015]

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[@anurudhradhakrishnan9193]

biggest fan of watto ..the power house..greatest all rounder ..one of the stylish batting techniques. my hero

[@pavanreddy8438]

Anurudh Radhakrishnan we know Bro😍😍

[@jacobbellingham1839]

nah, i'm the biggest fan of him

[@shaktiprasad1807]

Love you Watson...

[@johnheterick2823]

Say what you want about the guys issue's with lbw he was an amazing allrounder in all 3 formats of the game and the passion he showed when he reached his landmarks was always a true testament to how much the game we all love meant to him.

[@nithin3656]

5:49 what a shot absolute crunchy cover drive

[@gggfx4144]

One of the cleanest, tightest classic check-drives in the game - Watson never scored as much as such a utilitarian technique should have allowed - his issue was not converting his famous 40s into big scores. Still amazing and inspirational player - how many all rounders open the batting

[@williamread9384]

gotta love watto !

[@TechFlo]

Not many do, if truth be told. He's a damn good timer of the cricket ball.

[@watsupah]

Tech-Flo Not many love him in australia. But he has countless fans around the world especially in the subcontinent. The number of facebook fanpages of him are 10 times more than any non-indian cricketer(except gayle)

[@themusicarena8045]

Most beautiful, most stylish, most grateful and the best batsman ever.
my favourite for ever.

[@krishnendubasu5936]

U r gorgeous!

[@shubhamagarwal6067]

Only if Watson was backed as much as India backed Rohit Sharma, he would have become the best after Ponting for Australia. Sadly too many selection experiments never let him settle down at one place

[@sakib1840]

his sixes are amazing. specially when he pick the ball on spinners and make it full toss

[@sarawanansara7897]

Shane Watson is the best all rounder in this modern era

[@sting281]

He also had the most graceful forward defence. That was quite a sight.

[@utkarshsharma9432]

I can't believe he is not one of the greatest allrounders ever, injuries destroyed his career , he undoubtedly was a better batsman and bowler than his stats suggest. Such a waste of talent

[@ramasrivastava9246]

Still the best stats in LOIs . As an all rounder . Clarke and injuries both played part in his downfall .

[@amitkumaraman6189]

WATTO...the power+class

[@krishnendubasu5936]

Classic straight drives by Watto. Wish there was more in this clip.

[@krishnendubasu5936]

The problem with Watson's technique was that his head used to fall over to d off side n front foot used to move too far across, leaving him vulnerable to lbw. All he had to do was at stance make sure his head was on top of his back foot toe n keep d head straight all along, dis would hav solved the problem.

[@krishnendubasu5936]

Shane Watson is one of d best drivers of d ball.

[@themusicarena8045]

I m his biggest fan on earth beleive me.

[@g-seriessongs7686]

Hmm

[@satyajitsahoosahoo4499]

Shane Watson is my life

[@joshwallis5100]

Great video!

[@watsupah]

Love him. Thanks for the video. "Watson’s batting technique was used as a model at the Australian Cricket Academy". Its mentioned here astraightbat.wordpress.com/2012/05/24/shane-watson-a-care-bear-in-the-body-of-a-nordic-superhero/

[@OG_Frostay]

cool

[@anurudhradhakrishnan9193]

watto my fav 😍😘

[@ritwikmishra7611]

love you watson

[@33bold19]

Big fan of Watson I love him

[@AbhishekArmylover-v9u]

Legend Forever ❤❤❤❤

[@challaharmani8414]

Love u watson❤

[@watsondanish1684]

My stylish player forever. Love u shane

[@sufiyannicenicetanwar4240]

Love him Watson batting

[@MrAntiBrent]

This blokes gotten more reviews wrong than he has fifties in tests.

[@sadhikmohammad7869]

Tnx for the Video...🤗

[@aashikshahid1683]

love from India...

[@manishgaming1134]

Shane Watson love straight drive

[@charlietink882]

Where did you get 2010/11 ashes highlights from @tech-flo

[@sammyjinga]

fuck this is good

[@faizalpatel5880]

Whats the second songs name @tec-Flo

[@jakepatterson4345]

Aussie selectors should have always batted him at 6 in tests, should have never batted him that high

[@ryanmitchell9190]

He was rubbish! Idiots hated him. BUT...They would love him in the Test/ODI/T20 setup today!

[@faizalpatel5880]

2nd song name @tech-flo

[@TechFlo]

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