{"id":33259,"date":"2015-03-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/shane-watson-winning-back-friends\/"},"modified":"2015-03-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T00:00:00","slug":"shane-watson-winning-back-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/shane-watson-winning-back-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Watson winning back friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>Image | Getty<\/h6>\n<h3>Much maligned and recently dropped, Shane Watson impressed many when he survived an inspired Wahab Riaz bowling spell in Australia\u2019s quarter-final against Pakistan.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cIt was fantastic cricket to watch,\u201d teammate Mitchell Starc told Rowey and Bicks on FIVEAA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was good, hard world cup cricket.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Starc said it was a fantastic spell by Riaz which had Watson ducking, weaving and dropped when he was on four.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(Watson) showed his class and just how much he really wants it and how much it means to him,\u201d Starc said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe put on a great display to get through that spell\u2026 but then showed his class at the end to stay out there and really make sure he was the one to get us home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether he was glad he had not been facing Riaz, Starc said: \u201cOver the moon would be an understatement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>LISTEN to the full Mitchell Starc interview here:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/197407751&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-mark-jane\/dangerfield-addresses-speculation\">DANGERFIELD ADDRESSES SPECULATION<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/leon-byner\/that-guy-from-that-sugar-film\">THAT GUY FROM THAT SUGAR FILM<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image | Getty Much maligned and recently dropped, Shane Watson impressed many when he survived an inspired Wahab Riaz bowling spell in Australia\u2019s quarter-final against Pakistan. \u201cIt was fantastic cricket to watch,\u201d teammate Mitchell Starc told Rowey and Bicks on FIVEAA. \u201cIt was good, hard world cup cricket.\u201d Starc said it was a fantastic spell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":24140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[247,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-33259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiveaa-sports-show","category-show"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.2.1 (Yoast SEO v20.2.1) - 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