Stopping captaincy gave Watson flexibility - Dravid

Rahul Dravid, the Rajasthan Royals guide, has said that Shane Watson's turn to hand over the establishment's captaincy to Steven Smith has issued him more flexibility to perform his inside and out obligations. In just his second diversion after the choice, Watson made an unbeaten 104 off 59 conveyances and afterward got two wickets to take Royals to the playoffs with a win over Kolkata Knight Riders.

"Watson and Smith are quality individuals other than being quality cricketers. It was an aggregate choice in which Watto was a dynamic piece of," Dravid told the IPL site. "He understood that his part as a batsman and a bowler was a considerable measure more essential to us than as a chief. It was such a decent thing to see that we rolled out the improvement and it permitted Watson to play uninhibitedly. We saw the outcome (against Knight Riders). Credit to him that he remembered it and demonstrated the eagerness to accept that call."

Smith said that Watson needed to have a "reasonable personality" so that he could concentrate on executing his aptitudes with bat and ball. Royals shielded an aggregate of 199 for 6 by nine keeps running in a strained pursue as Knight Riders answered with 190 for 9. Watson went for 38 keeps running in his spell yet rejected Yusuf Pathan and Piyush Chawla in progressive overs at the passing. He conceded that he would have thought that it was difficult to focus all alone playing on the off chance that he needed to stress over things, for example, rolling out bowling improvements amid that pursuit.

"There is most likely (while) bowling (in) that second innings, in the event that I needed to commander that also, that would have been exceptionally extreme," Watson said. "It would have been really scattered with my psyche. So I was upbeat that Steve Smith was doing it."