Watson said it was time to put player welfare ahead of the money the game generated or risk damaging the product.

"There's too much cricket on and my personal belief is some it is on for the wrong reasons and not for the betterment of cricket," Watson told Newscorp.

"A lot of it comes down to the money that's generated ... and the deals that are done by the cricket boards that if you play games here we can play games at home.

"It needs to be looked at. As we saw in South Africa, we don't take our best team there thinking we'll be OK and we end up losing 5-0. No one wants that.

"Whatever works to make sure that the product being produced is the most premium product.

"If it meant there was a bit more life balance playing for Australia, I think whatever is required to actually get that, the players would be open to any of that for sure."