Shane Watson savours injury-free times

Updated on: 08 February,2011 09:03 AM IST |
A Correspondent |

Two awards in four days! Australia all-rounder Shane Watson is living his dreams. The injury-prone Watson bagged his second Australian cricket's top honour - the Allan Border Medal here last night

Two awards in four days! Australia all-rounder Shane Watson is living his dreams. The injury-prone Watson bagged his second Australian cricket's top honour - the Allan Border Medal here last night.

On Friday, Watson (29) was announced as the Ceat International Cricketer of the Year for 2009-10.

"It's been nice to be able to stay on the cricket field for more than a couple of months," Watson was quoted as saying on ninemsn.com

"It's an amazing honour to be able to win the Allan Border Medal, but it's also to play continuous cricket for the last couple of years, which is probably my biggest feat I feel I've been able to achieve.

"It's been something that really, probably one of the most satisfying things that has happened over the last couple of years has been to see people really appreciate what I'm able to do."

But the 29-year-old, whose honours underline the huge upswing in his career over the past two years, after a long period in which he feared injury would never allow him to establish himself, said just staying on the field was its own reward.

New South Wales batsman Usman Khawaja, who made his debut in the recently concluded Ashes series, was named state player of the year while former captain Mark Taylor and former all-rounder Doug Walters were inducted into the Australian cricket Hall of Fame.

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