Eddie Watts

{{short description|English cricketer}}

{{Other people| Edward Watts|Edward Watts (disambiguation){{!}}Edward Watts}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2016}}

{{Use British English|date=February 2016}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Eddie Watts

| image =

| caption =

| batting = Right-handed

| bowling = Right-arm fast-medium

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 244

| runs1 = 6,158

| bat avg1 = 21.38

| 100s/50s1 = 2/27

| top score1 = 123

| deliveries1 = 37,355

| wickets1 = 729

| bowl avg1 = 26.06

| fivefor1 = 24

| tenfor1 = 2

| best bowling1 = 10/67

| catches/stumpings1= 155/–

| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33679/33679.html CricketArchive

| date = 8 November

| year = 2022

}}

Edward Alfred Watts (1 August 1912 – 3 May 1982) was an English cricketer. He was born in Peckham, London.

A right-arm fast-medium bowler and a useful right-handed batsman, he played for Surrey from 1933 to 1949. Despite losing some of what might have been his best years to World War II, he took 729 first-class wickets at 26.06, with best innings figures of 10/67 in the second innings against Warwickshire at Edgbaston in 1939. He scored 6158 runs at 21.38, including two centuries. His highest score of 123 was made against a powerful Yorkshire attack at Bradford in 1934. The innings included four 6s and fourteen 4s and took under two hours, as did his only other century.

He was the brother-in-law of Alf Gover, with whom he often opened the Surrey bowling. After his cricket career, he ran a sports shop. He died in Cheam, Surrey at age 69.