Intro:

All-rounder Shane Watson talks about his 'new' role in the Australia side, being dropped and thinking that his World Cup was at an end in Adelaide South Australia on Tuesday (17th March).

Script:

SOUNDBITE (English) Shane Watson, Australia all-rounder:

"I think the middle order, for this game - if I'm playing. Yeah, it seems like my role's changed in the last couple of games, which is absolutely fine. Totally understand where I sit within the team, so I'm just going to keep working on developing and having the skills ready to go for those situations... yeah, five or six, yeah."

SOUNDBITE (English) Shane Watson, Australia all-rounder:

"I wasn't expecting to play after being dropped for the Afghanistan game, for the rest of the tournament, You know, Rod Marsh (chair of selectors, Cricket Australia) at that time made it very clear what their intentions were, so it's amazing how things can turn around, even quicker than I thought they would, but look... even in the lead-up to being dropped anyway, I'd known... the thing I'd worked on was starting to be a big shift in my batting and also the mental approach to what I was wanting to do anyway, so I was just lucky that the opportunity came around against Sri Lanka and everything I'd been working on and thinking about, all came together really... very much in that innings and it was an absolute pleasure to be able to bat with Glenn Maxwell, who sort of took a little of the pressure off me, especially at the start of my innings, but yeah, I know the way I batted against Sri Lanka, I know that's... I had that in me for a long period of time, but I just wasn't able to bring it out."

SOUNDBITE (English) Shane Watson, Australia all-rounder:

"I've been dreaming about playing in this World Cup at home, so when it really sunk in that I'd been dropped, it really hurt, there's no question and knowing, or thinking at the time that it was going to be potentially my last chance of playing in a World Cup at home, I'd come to the realisation of that, but I just, you know, the burning desire that's been in me since I've been dropped, is something that really lit inside of me. I know it's going to hold me in good stead over the next year or couple of years, you know, hopefully, because I don't want to be feeling like that again."