Chennai Super Kings’ star batsman Shane Watson has announced to his CSK teammates about his plans to retire from all forms of cricket, a TOI report claimed. He made public his future in cricket after the team’s win over the Kings XI Punjab in their last match of the season. He had already retired from international cricket before the Super Kings bouht him into the squad which means the world has seen the last of Shane Watson as a professional cricketer on the field.
Shane Watson has been an IPL legend and one of the best all-rounders in the game. He was snapped up by the Super Kings in the auction before the IPL 2018. He was not looking in great touch throughout the tournament but MS Dhoni kept on persisting with him and Watson repaid the faith by scoring a match-winning century in the final against the Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Before coming into the CSK camp, Watson had also played for the Royal Challengers Bangalore and Rajasthan Royals where his exploits with both the bat and ball won him many accolades and a place in the Australian team after a successful IPL in the first edition.
For the Chennai Super Kings, Watson was a big-match player who won them the cup in 2018 while missing out narrowly in the next edition last year. Watson was at his best in both the finals of the last two seasons and it was evident of his temperament and quality.
In the inaugural edition of the IPL, he had amassed 472 runs from the 15 matches he played in that season and that was good enough for his captain at the Rajasthan Royals Shane Warne to accept his credentials as good enough for Australian cricket.
"Throughout the series, he has been superb. He's a fantastic all-round cricketer and good enough to be in the Australian team," Shane Warne had said back in 2008 about Shane Watson.
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