Richard Martin Watson (31 December 1921 – 1 October 1987) was an English

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 striki ...

er who played first-class cricket for

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in 1947. Watson was born at

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. He was educated at

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where he was in the cricket team from 1936 to 1939. He made his debut for Derbyshire in the 1947 season against

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in May when he was not out for 12 and took two catches. He played five more first-class games that season and also played in the Derbyshire second XI in 1947 and 1948. His best score of 25 not out was against the South Africans. Watson was a left-hand batsman who played eleven innings in six first-class matches with an average of 8.50 and a top score of 25 not out. He was a leg-break bowler, but did not bowl in a first-class game. Richard Watson at Cricket Archive
/ref> Watson died at Penrhosgarnedd, Bangor, Wales at the age of 65.

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