I forgot to add....
Darren Lehmann must be spewing his guts, wishing he was born 10 years later when he watches the likes of Watto, Ed Cowan, Marcus North etc. who didn't have to make the test side during the golden era of the Taylor/Waugh years when many players who were scoring thousands of runs in Sheffield Shield either couldn't make the test team, could make it but were given limited opportunities to establish themselves unlike Watto, or were constantly in and out of the test side: Lehmann, Law, Bevan, Elliott, Love, Blewett and the list goes on. Then you have Ponting, Martyn, Hayden and Langer who only were able to cement their spots in the 2000s, and the likes of Gilchrist and Hussey who had to wait about a decade from their state debuts before they got their chance. Had Lehmann been born in the early '80s like Watto, he'd easily have played 100+ tests.
And on the topic of Watto, highlights of this classic ODI from 1992 on an difficult SCG wicket:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itQH9N3BOkk
Hineyrulz, please tell me, could you imagine how someone like Watto would go on a pitch like that, batting in his coveted #3 against the likes of Ambrose, Bishop and Simmons (who was no slouch with the ball, and had bowling figures of 10 overs-8 MAIDENS -4/3 against Pakistan at the same venue the following month??)? Have a look especially at how much turn part-time spinners like Carl Hooper extracted from the pitch with the Mark Waugh stumping? Also, the seam off the pitch such as when Ambrose bowled Martyn? A big shame you rarely see pitches like this these days. In the vicinity of rainy weather, the SCG was always difficult to score off. All flat-track bullies (which is more than 50% of batsmen these days) would be brutally exposed on a deck like that match.
