“Winning the Inner Battle” Book by Shane Watson

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In November 2022, Shane Watson wrote a new book titled "Winning the Inner Battle Bringing the Best Version of You to Cricket".

Important Facts

• Shane Watson's new book, Winning the Inner Battle, explores the mental side of the game through his own experiences revitalising his career after contemplating retirement in 2015.

• Shane Watson is one of the finest all-rounders in Australian cricket, having represented his country 298 times.

Shane Robert Watson

• Shane Watson is an Australian former international cricketer. He has been a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast swing bowler.

• He played international cricket between 2002 and 2016.

• He was the world's No. 1 T20I all-rounder for a record 150 weeks.

• Shane Watson was born on 17 June 1981 in Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. At the age of 21, he made his international debut on 24 March 2002, playing an ODI against South Africa at Centurion.

• In his ODI career, he scored 5757 runs in 190 matches at an average of 40.54 and took 168 wickets.

• Watson played the first Test match of his career on 2 January 2005 against Pakistan in Sydney.

• Watson holds many records in T20I, ODI and T20. According to Forbes, Watson was the highest paid non-Indian cricketer in the world for five consecutive years between 2011 and 2015.

• On 2 November 2020, he announced his retirement from all forms of cricket.

• In 2017, Watson launched Let's Activate, a sports clinic for children. Watson has his own podcast called Lessons Learned with the Greats.