lol I know its flavour of the month to hate on Watson around here, but its nuts to say he's as bad as Ishant Sharma in test cricket.
Average, annoying and under achieving is far different to absolute crap
I think he pretty much is, tbh - he's taken so few test wicket, under 1.5 per test, he really doesn't count as an all-rounder - so as a batsmen he's very much like Ishant IMO, some promise, some very good performances, but generally ordinary - without looking too closely, he presumably has played about half his tests in Australia, where in case anyone hasn't noticed pretty much every Australian batsman does rather well, as do many tourists - in fact he has been pretty much shit outside of Australia and England, and averaged over 30 in 4/8 seasons of test cricket (over 40 in 2) - at the end of the day for someone that's played much of their cricket in batsmen friendly conditions in very strong sides, and has been talked about as a talent, his test record is pretty bad...
As would be expected Ishant has played a lot of tests in India, where quicks get nothing, yet averages 33 there which is actually reasonably impressive, it's his away performances that are poor, when you'd almost expect the opposite
