Theroar.com.au | Shane Watson finally explains DRS gaffes

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One of the biggest questions in cricket has been answered! In a live Facebook Q&A for PSL side Islamabad United, Shane Watson has finally spoken about why he took all those disastrous DRS calls when it was quite evident that more often that not he was caught plumb in-front of his stumps. 

From Theroar.com.au

I made a number of bad reviews, which in the end I just gave up on and realised the same thing as always – if the umpire gives you out, you’re out. Growing up the umpire’s decision is always final so you don’t have to worry about whether you’re out or not.

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Different people have different weaknesses and mine was getting out LBW. I used to work incredibly hard technically on it all the time. The one thing I probably didn’t really work on is the mental aspect of exactly what was setting me to expose myself getting out that way regularly.”

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What Ed Cowan said is absolutely spot on, because if you go into the team it’s great and everything’s going well. But then when things don’t go well the media hammers you, the public hammers you and you come out the other side and you’re a shell of your former self.

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