The David Watson story represents a very sad moment in the Parramatta District Cricket Club’s enduring history. It is about a young 23-year man with a glowing future as a cricketer and journalist beckoning, only for it to be snatched away by a tragic road accident.

Within hours of appointment to a senior editorial position with one of the Cumberland Newspapers’ major publications, the rising young journalist and gifted cricketer David William Thomas Watson, that many experts touted as a definite State player of the near-future, perished on Wednesday 22 March 1961when his new sedan crashed against a roadside tree on North Rocks Road, Parramatta – his childhood friend Kerry Alexander also killed in this accident.

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