Steve Watkin

Infobox Cricketer


nationality = English
country = England
country abbrev = ENG
name = Steve Watkin
picture = Cricket_no_pic.pngbatting style = Right-handed batsman (RHB)
bowling style = Right-arm medium-fast (RMF)
tests = 3
test runs = 25
test bat avg = 5.00
test 100s/50s = 0/0
test top score = 13
test overs = 89
test wickets = 11
test bowl avg = 27.72
test 5s = 0
test 10s = 0
test best bowling = 4-65
test catches/stumpings = 1/0
ODIs = 4
ODI runs = 4
ODI bat avg = 2.00
ODI 100s/50s = 0/0
ODI top score = 2
ODI overs = 36.5
ODI wickets = 7
ODI bowl avg = 27.57
ODI 5s = 0
ODI best bowling = 4-49
ODI catches/stumpings = 0/0
date = 14 June
year = 2005
source = http://content.cricinfo.com/england/content/player/22333.html

Steven Llewellyn Watkin (born 15 September 1964 in Duffryn Rhondda, Maesteg, Glamorgan, Wales) is a former cricketer with Glamorgan County Cricket Club and England. A reliable seamer who never suffered serious injury despite several lesser niggles, he played three Test matches in 1991 and 1993, and four One Day Internationals in 1993/94. He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1994, the only one of that year's five who was not Australian.

Watkin made his first-class debut against Worcestershire in 1986, taking the wickets of Graeme Hick and Phil Neale, and also played two Sunday League games, but had to wait until 1988 for a second chance. That year he established himself as an important member of the Glamorgan first team, taking 8-59 (which was to remain his career best) against Warwickshire and claiming 46 scalps in all that season. His best year in terms of wickets was 1989, when he took 94, and in his career he took 902 wickets in all.

In 1998, Watkin was given a benefit by Glamorgan, which raised £133,000. Normally a poor batsman, he managed to average a startling 35.66 that year, despite a top score of just 25, thanks to no fewer than 13 not-outs in his 16 innings. (By contrast, his career average was 10.83 ( [http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/22333.html] )) In 2000 he scored 51 against Gloucestershire, the only half-century of his career.

After retirement in 2001, Watkin became Director of the new Welsh Cricket Academy.