In the second match of International Masters League T20 2025, Australia Masters opener batsman and captain Shane Watson scored a brilliant innings against Brian Lara's West Indies Masters. In the game, the toss was in favor of Brian Lara, who invited Australia to bat.

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Following this, Shane Watson, who arrived to bat for the Kangaroo side in the first innings, ruined the West Indies bowlers and made a century while playing a stormy innings. Based on the century of Shane Watson, Australia, batting first, made 216 runs for 8 wickets in the required 20 overs and set a target of 217 runs for West Indies to win.

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Shane Watson made 107 runs for this match with the assistance of 9 sixes and 9 fours in 52 balls and his strike rate for this match was 205.77. Daniel Christian made 32 runs from the side of Australia and Ben Dunk made 15 runs in this match. Except for these, no other Australian batsman was able to do anything outstanding for West Indies. Jerome Taylor and Ravi Rampaul conceded 2-2 wickets each against West Indies team in this match. Dwayne Smith dismissed one wicket whereas Ashley Nurse dismissed 3 wickets in this match.
Interestingly, Shane Watson was dropped by West Indies Masters wicket-keeper Denesh Ramdin and Chris Gayle at first slip earlier in the innings when the Australian opener was only 5* at the time.

Before the match, West Indies skipper Brian Lara had opted to bat first after winning the toss. Shane Watson answered back with a sequence of boundaries as his firebrand strategy ran through Australia at 54-1 at the finish of the opening powerplay.

Racing to his fifty from only 28 balls, the 43-year-old Australian cricketer achieved from 50 to 100 in 20 deliveries to force a 48-ball ton. The great Australian all-rounder was eventually run out by West Indies spinner Ashley Nurse after scoring 107 runs in 52 balls. His inning also took the Australian Masters over 200 runs with almost two overs remaining in the innings.