A tall right-arm fast bowler, Watson played first-class cricket for Jamaica from 1958 to 1962.
[1] The English batsman Ken Barrington was hit on the elbow by a Watson bouncer during the series and others had near misses, but the West Indies' champion all-rounder Garry Sobers later claimed this was more due to the English batsmen being unaccustomed to West Indian pitches than intimidatory bowling.
[6] In September and October 1962, Watson toured East Africa, Rhodesia and Malaya with a Commonwealth XI cricket team.
He was one of four West Indian fast bowlers who played a season of domestic cricket in India in 1962–63 in order to give Indian batsmen more experience of playing fast bowling.
[9] While living in England, Watson married a woman from Ribchester, and studied accountancy during the Lancashire winters.