| Eddie Watts | |
| 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.