The team management tried to play down the sensational development by saying the 31-year-old all-rounder wanted to be with his heavily pregnant wife Lee, who is due to give birth at the end of the month. But Watson clarified to the Sydney Morning Herald that he was also reconsidering his Test future and would "weigh up options" after the "harsh" decision.
"Any time you're suspended for a Test match unless you do something unbelievably wrong, and obviously everyone knows what those rules are... I think it is very harsh," Watson was reported as saying.
"At this point in time I'm at a stage where I'm sort of weighing up my future and what I want to do with my cricket in general, to be honest. I do love playing, there is no doubt about that, but at this point in time I'm going to spend the next few weeks with my family and just weigh up my options of just exactly which direction I want to go.
"I'm going to have to sit down and talk that through with my family. There are lot more important things in life - I certainly do love playing cricket and that passion is still there and I feel like I'm in the prime years of my cricket career. From that perspective I still feel like I've got a lot to give. But from a holistic perspective I've got to sit down with my family and decide which directions they are."
Watson said he had been about to tell the Australian team management he would be unavailable for the fourth Test to be home for the birth of his first child before the bizarre turn of events left Australian cricket in total shambles ahead of the third Test.
"I was about to communicate that to Mickey and the leadership group today but they obviously beat me to it by telling me I wasn't selected for this Test match," he said. "Also overnight, things have changed and Lee wasn't going to tell me things had changed because she knew how much it meant to me to be able to play this Test match. It was due in a couple of weeks but it's looking like things have sped up a little bit."
If Watson does reconsider his Test career, the team management will be left thinking if the unprecedented step was worth it ahead of an Ashes series.
The Aussies appeared to be in a hurry to sidestep the extraordinary turn of events, with team manager Matt Cenin saying, "He has not left in a huff, his wife is expecting. And that is why he has left for Australia to be by her side. The two things (returning to Australia and being dropped from the team) should not be linked."
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