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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Next six months will be a challenge for me: Watson

Sydney, Jul nineteen (IANS) Australia’s latest clamp captain Shane Watson feels he will face his greatest cricketing plea in a entrance 6 months, starting with a debate of Sri Lanka in August.

Watson has turn an constituent partial of a group with all-round capabilities as good as will fool around a vital purpose in Australia’s swell in a entrance years. The once godlike outfit has struggled in a new past as they mislaid a Ashes upon home dirt after twenty-four years as good as crashed out from a World Cup in a quarterfinals.

‘The subsequent 6 to 8 months is starting to be a greatest plea which you have ever faced in a Australian team,’ Watson told Fox Sports.

‘Going to Sri Lanka as good as personification in their conditions is as difficult a debate as there is, generally for an Australian team. Sri Lanka is unequivocally foreign, a conditions are, to what you have been used to in Australia. Only carrying Ricky (Ponting) with a knowledge is starting to yield a outrageous challenge.

‘On a behind of that, you go to South Africa as good as fool around Tests as good as one-dayers in South Africa. That in itself is a severe debate as well, as good as a single of a toughest ones you can go on. It will be a unequivocally engaging time for us as a team, over a subsequent 6 months to see just where you have been at, as good as see a one after another improvement, since that’s unequivocally what you have to show.’

Though Australia still reason a tip mark in a one-day rankings, they have forsaken to fifth in Tests.

Next 6 months will be a plea for me: Watson

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