Dubai: Chennai Super Kings opener Shane Watson is truly one of the greatest all-rounders to have played the game. The veteran Australian batsman, who has been one of the key batsmen in the franchise’s over the past few years, was recently asked to name five top bowlers to have played T20 cricket. On Tuesday (October 6) ‘Watto’ enlisted his top five T20 bowlers of all time and Jasprit Bumrah was the only Indian to feature in his list.
“The first one in my top 5 T20 bowlers of all time is the greatest T20 bowler, Lasith Malinga… His execution of yorkers is something that has not been seen before and might not be seen again for a long period of time,” Watson said in a video on T20 Stars’ Youtube channel.
“Number two is Shahid Afridi. I am just talking about his bowling right now, he is obviously an incredibly dynamic batsman but from a bowling perspective, he is the perfect T20 bowler. He is a wicket-taker but also, he does not concede that many runs. And that is a T20 bowler you always need in your team,” he added.
Watson was all praise for the third bowler in the list, Indian pacer Jasprit Bumrah. “He, for me, is an all-round package. He is only 26 at the moment but the dominance that he has had in T20 cricket so far as a bowler is absolutely phenomenal,” Watson said.
“He has got speed, he can swing the bowl both ways, he has got a great change of pace, his execution of his yorkers is incredible as well… Facing him is a huge challenge, he has got so many different high-quality bowling options and you got to be absolutely on your game to be able to score and put him under pressure. I am sure he will be absolutely great at the end of his career in T20 cricket alone with incredible skills that he has got,” he added.
