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For the five seasons from 1948 to 1952, Watts' cricket was confined to school holidays, with only one match, in June 1948, outside the long summer holiday period; only in 1950 did he fail to make useful runs. He captained the side in some matches including at least one match in the summer of 1948,
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where he was later a teacher, the bespectacled Watts was a successful schoolboy cricketer as a left-handed middle-order batsman and a leg-break bowler. He appeared in the public schools cricket festival at
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defeats: the pair "arrived like giants deposing weaklings", it wrote. In these 1949 matches, Watts made the only first-class century of his career, scoring 110 against
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November 1945 and finally resigned his commission in March 1947 with the honorary rank of major.
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681:David Foot & Ivan Ponting.
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