Player profile

Full name Henry Charles Watkinson
Born Guildford, August 3, 1976
Nickname Hank, Waffer
Batting style Left-handlower middle-order
Bowling style Left-arm medium
Height 6 ft 1 in
Clubs Cranleigh, Clifton, MCC
School XI 1988 to 1990
OC Career 1989 to date

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat		Inns		NO		HS		Runs		Ave		50		100		Ct		St
OCCC	171		122		16		110		2669		25.61		11		3		72		0

Bowling averages

	Overs		Mdns		Runs		Wkts		Ave		Best		5WI		SR		Econ
OCCC	1259.5		174		5095		240		21.23		6-94		5		31.5		4.0

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Profile

Henry's potential was spotted at an early age and in three seasons in the Cranleigh 1st XI he took 99 wickets, impressing with his pace and aggression with the ball and his powerful middle-order batting. He became an important part of the OCs as soon as he left the school, although appearances were limited by various official MCC junkets, which became even more prevalent after his cricket master, Roger Knight, took over as secretary of MCC. Until his waffer-thin body begun to slowly disassemble in the latter part of the 1990s (some unkind souls claimed that Henry's injuries worsened in direct relation to the ability of the opposition batting strength) Henry was the club's main strike bowler and certainly its fastest . As his pace diminished - and that was a key part of his armoury - he turned his hand to spin with a success which confounded those who labelled him a pie-chucker. In the early years his batting was generally under-used and abused - his first three hundreds all came against our weakest opposition which led to him being discounted - but on his day he remains capable of destroying the best attack, and doing so with some audacious strokeplay. His brief spell as captain was interupted when he spent a year in Australia, and although he struggled for a season, he returned to his best with the ball in 2003 and 2004, although his form with the bat dipped alarmingly. As age wearied him he become military medium but gained a Chaminda Vaas-like effectiveness with the new ball and at the death, and he was a key part of our early forrays in the Cricketer Cup.

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