# Gary Watts

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{{short description|Australian cricketer (born 1958)}}
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{{Infobox cricketer
|                name = Gary Watts
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|            fullname = Gary Maxwell Watts
|          birth_date = {{birth date and age|1958|10|22|df=yes}}
|         birth_place = [Dunolly, Victoria](/source/Dunolly%2C_Victoria), Australia
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|               club1 = [Victoria](/source/Victoria_cricket_team)
|               year1 = 1977-1991
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|                date = 6 December 2015
|              source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/8276.html Cricinfo
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'''Gary Maxwell Watts''' (born 22 October 1958) is an Australian former [cricket](/source/cricket)er. He played 67 [first-class cricket](/source/first-class_cricket) matches for [Victoria](/source/Victoria_cricket_team) between 1977 and 1991.<ref name="Bio">{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/8276.html |title=Gary Watts |accessdate=6 December 2015 |work=ESPN Cricinfo}}</ref>

Watts played twenty-six seasons of [district/premier cricket](/source/Victorian_Premier_Cricket) for [Fitzroy/Fitzroy-Doncaster](/source/Fitzroy_Cricket_Club) between 1975/76 and 2000/01, and scored a career total of 12,933 runs at 42.26.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://premier.cricketvictoria.com.au/files/3/files/player-register-career-stats/VCA%201st%20XI%20CAREER%20RECORDS%201889-90%20to%202014-15%20S-Z.pdf|title=VCA 1st XI Career records 1889-90 to 2014-15, S-Z|accessdate=27 February 2016|publisher=Cricket Victoria|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304115310/http://premier.cricketvictoria.com.au/files/3/files/player-register-career-stats/VCA%201st%20XI%20CAREER%20RECORDS%201889-90%20to%202014-15%20S-Z.pdf|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> At the end of his career, he was the highest run-scorer in premier cricket history, having surpassed the record held by [John Scholes](/source/John_Scholes_(cricketer)); as of 2016, he sits second behind [Warren Ayres](/source/Warren_Ayres).<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Melbourne Leader|publication-place=Melbourne, VIC|title=Melbourne coach moves to seventh on all-time Premier/District aggregate|author=Paul Amy|url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/inner-east/melbourne-coach-moves-to-seventh-on-alltime-premierdistrict-aggregate/story-fngnvmox-1226846137032|date=5 March 2014|accessdate=27 February 2016}}</ref>

==See also==
* [List of Victoria first-class cricketers](/source/List_of_Victoria_first-class_cricketers)

==References==
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==External links==
* {{cricinfo|ref=ci/content/player/8276.html}}

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Category:1958 births
Category:Living people
Category:Australian cricketers
Category:Victoria cricketers
Category:Fitzroy cricketers
Category:Cricketers from Victoria (state)
Category:20th-century Australian sportsmen

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