Rahul Dravid will not be the only one Hampshire will have to watch out for when they travel to Edinburgh to face the Scottish Saltires in a National League Second Division match tomorrow.

All eyes will be on Dravid, one of the best batsmen in the world, when he makes his Saltires debut in the limited-overs league in a match being shown live on Sky.

But Hants skipper John Crawley will be well aware of the danger posed by Saltires opener Ryan Watson, who earlier this month hammered his name into the record books.

Playing against Somerset at The Grange, Watson blasted a century off only 43 balls as Scotland sensationally reached their 180 victory target with three balls left of their 16-over allocation in a rain-wrecked match.

It was the third fastest one-day century in the history of the game.

Only Graham Rose (36 balls, Somerset v Devon, 1990) and Shahid Afridi (37 balls, Pakistan v Sri Lanka, 1996) have scored quicker one-day tons.

Watson is joined in the top five by Mark Ealham (44 balls,Kent v Derbyshire, 1995) and the legendary Brian Lara (45 balls, West Indies v Bangladesh, 1999).

"When I came off the pitch I thought I had taken about 70 balls, and when someone told me it was 43 I was shocked," said Watson.

"It was the first time I had been batting and not thought of anything. If the ball was there I was just going to hit it.

"I just said to the guys as they came in 'try and get me on strike because something's clicked'."

Watson, who had earlier seen Somerset's England opener Marcus Trescothick, pictured right, dropped three times in successive deliveries off his bowling, smashed seven sixes and ten fours.

The Forfarshire captain handed out some severe punishment to spinner Keith Dutch, hitting him for four sixes off successive deliveries. In all, Dutch's two overs cost 48 runs.

Watson brought up his century with another boundary and took his score on to 103 not out as the Saltires clinched victory with three balls to spare.

"There's no point going out there thinking you are not going to do it," he said.

"The aim was to try and get at least one boundary in each over and singles off the other balls."

Zimbabwe-born Watson, 26, settled in South Africa aged 11 but moved to Scotland seven years ago after being held up at gunpoint. He lives in Dundee and combines his cricket with a job as a sales rep for an IT solutions company.

"If you had said to me in April what our goals for the season would be I'd have said winning two games," said Watson.

"But now I think we have to re-assess and look to win four, five or even six games.

"We wanted to earn the respect of the counties when we came into this competition and, if the performance against Somerset doesn't open a few eyes, I don't know what will."