Shane Watson

Shane Robert Watson is an Australian cricket coach, commentator and former cricketer who played for and occasionally captained the Australian national cricket team between 2002 and 2016. He was an all-rounder who played as a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler. He was ranked as the world's No. 1 all-rounder in Twenty20 Internationals (T20I) for 150 weeks, including an all-time record of 120 consecutive weeks from 13 October 2011 to 30 January 2014. He began playing during the Australian team's golden era in the early 2000s, and was the last player from this era to retire. In his time playing for Australia, Watson was part of their winning squad in the Cricket World Cup two times in 2007, and 2015 along with the ICC Champions Trophy twice in 2006 and 2009, with Watson named as the player of the match in the final on both occasions, as he scored the winning run in the 2006 tournament, with the winning six in the 2009 tournament.

17 June 1981

Born on the same birth date (17 June 1981): Kyle Boller

Born on the same birth day (17 June): Carol Anderson • Chantal Mouffe • Charles Michael, Duke of Mecklenburg • Clodovil Hernandes • Daniel Tupou • Derek Ibbotson • Evelyn Irons • Flora Finch • George Hees • Heinz Guderian • John Robert Gregg • Joseph of Cupertino • Juan Muñoz (sculptor) • Manuel González Flores • Michael Gross (swimmer) • Nick Rimando • Peter Le Cheminant • Sophie of Württemberg • Stephanie Rice • Stéphane Fiset • Tigran Petrosian • Tory Burch • Will Forte • William Kaye Estes

Born in the same month (June 1981): Aleksei Uvarov (footballer) • Alexandre Giroux • Andrey Yepishin • Anna Kournikova • Emiliano Moretti • Garrett Jones • Giourkas Seitaridis • Kristo Tohver • Miguel Villalta • Mohammed Al-Khuwalidi • Natalie Portman