00:00In this video, relive a classic knock from James Wattikar, a gritty 44 runs of 53 deliveries
00:06laced with two crisp boundaries and a towering six against Pakistan in the fourth match at
00:11Sharjah on April 7, 1987.
00:14Watch as James Wattikar takes on the world-class bowling attack, including two superbly timed
00:19fours of the legendary Vaseem Akram.
00:21Sit back and enjoy this slice of vintage Sharjah action, a true throwback to the golden era
00:26of ODI Cricket.
00:56Give him straight past the bowler, four rounds, a fine shot by Whittaker.
01:11Two mid-wicket and that's going to be four rounds and it is.
01:23James Wattikar born on May 5, 1962, he was a former English cricketer and he played one
01:30test match and two one-day international for England between 1986 and 1986.
01:36James Wattikar was born on May 5, 1962.
01:41He was a former English cricketer and he played one test match and two one-day international
01:46for England between 1986 and 1987.
01:53He was the best English bestman in the country in 1986 when he scored 1,526 runs with an average
02:02of 66.
02:03Because of his great performance, he was named one of the wisdom cricketer of the year in
02:081987.
02:09That same year, he was chosen for the Ashes tour to Australia.
02:14He started well and even scored a century in a practice match against South Australia.
02:19He played one test match at Adelaide when Ian Botham was injured, but his form dropped after
02:25that.
02:26He also played two one-day international in 1987 when England won the Sharjah Cup.
02:31James Wattikar was one of the most successful captains for Leicestershire.
02:35In 1996, he led the teams to win the county championship for the second time and he scored
02:421,046 runs that season with an average of 58.
02:45He also made his highest score of 218 runs that year in a match against Yorkshire.
02:51In 1998, Leicestershire won the championship again.
02:55James Wattikar started the season as captain but did not play much because of an injury.
03:00Chris Lewis and Phil Simmons led the team on the field.
03:03After retiring due to a leg injury, he became a coach and later the director of cricket at
03:08Leicestershire.
03:09He left the club in 2005 after being with them for 22 years.
03:13In 2008, he joined England's selection panel, working with Jeff Miller, Peter Morse and Ashley
03:20Giles.
03:21From 2013 to 2018, he served as England's chairman of selectors.
03:25During the 1986-87 Ashes series, James Wattikar played one test match in Adelaide.
03:30He scored just 11 runs before getting out to Bruce Reed.
03:34That match was notable because England had three Leicestershire players in the team, Wattikar,
03:39David Gower and Phil De Frites.
03:41James Wattikar had been selected after an outstanding 1986 season, even though he had suffered head
03:48injuries from the fastballers' Malcolm Marshall earlier that year.
03:52As far as the first-class stats, James Wattikar played 315 first-class matches, scoring 17,198
04:00runs at an average of 38.56, including 38 centuries and 80 fifties, with the highest score of 218,
04:08and he also took two wickets at an average of 134.
04:12In Leicester cricket matches, he featured in 282 games, accumulating 7,770 runs at an average
04:21of 32.37, with 647 fifties and a top score of 155, adding another 66 catches to his fielding
04:30thali.
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