Gary Maxwell Watts (born 22 October 1958) is an Australian former
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by str ...
er. He played 67
first-class cricket
First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officia ...
matches for
Victoria
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between 1977 and 1991.
Watts played twenty-six seasons of
district/premier cricket for
Fitzroy/Fitzroy-Doncaster between 1975/76 and 2000/01, and scored a career total of 12,933 runs at 42.26. At the end of his career, he was the highest run-scorer in premier cricket history, having surpassed the record held by
John Scholes; as of 2016, he sits second behind
Warren Ayres
Warren Ayres (born 25 October 1965) is an Australian former cricketer. He played 46 first-class cricket matches for Victoria between 1988 and 1997.
Ayres holds the record for most career runs in the Victorian Premier Cricket competition, scorin ...
.
See also
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List of Victoria first-class cricketers
This is a list of Victoria first-class cricketers. The Victoria cricket team have played first-class cricket since 1851, when they played the Tasmania cricket team at Launceston.
Below is a chronological list of cricketers to have represented V ...
References
External links
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1958 births
Living people
Australian cricketers
Victoria cricketers
Fitzroy cricketers
Cricketers from Victoria (state)
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