Watts was born at Chapeltown, Yorkshire and grew up in Penistone[1][2] and started playing for Derbyshire in the second XI and for the under 25s in 1980.
Watts was a left-hand batsman and played 16 innings in 12 first-class matches with an average of 27.36 and a top score of 57.
He was a right-arm medium pace bowler and took 19 first-class wickets at an average of 30.57 and a best performance of 4-54.
[3] Today, he makes whisky for the Distell Group and was appointed head of whisky at the company in 2016, after 25 years as Master Distiller at their James Sedgwick distillery in Wellington in South Africa.
[9] At the World Whisky Awards (WWA) in 2018 he was named the Global Icon Master Distiller/ Master Blender of the Year and at the same WWA awards in 2020 he was named the Global Icon World Whisky Ambassador of the Year.