Watson takes his second chance with both hands


  • Cricket
  • Monday, 09 Mar 2015

Australia's Shane Watson reacts after taking the wicket of Sri Lanka's captain Angelo Mathews during their Cricket World Cup match in Sydney, March 8, 2015. REUTERS/Jason Reed

SYDNEY (Reuters) - The obituaries had been written only three days earlier, Shane Watson's 13-year international cricket career declared dead and buried.

And yet at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Sunday, there was the unmistakeable figure of the Australian raising his bat in celebration of his 32nd one-day international half century.

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