Four warm-up games in August - against England, Argentina and France - lead Wales into September's World Cup.
The 16 competing teams are due to arrive on 2 March, with the opening warm-up games three days later.
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"He's been struggling a bit to find his form, both in the warm-up games and against America, " he said.
The World Cup, co-hosted by India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, begins on 19 February after a week of warm-up games.
The Amavubi Stars' build up in France is expected to include several warm-up games, but as yet no details have been finalised.
France won the World Cup warm-up games against England but the void has diminished - and the English have grown in confidence.
The squad will train in Las Vegas from 20-25 July before heading to China for warm-up games against Turkey, Lithuania, Russia and Australia.
England will play warm-up games against Bangladesh and South Africa this week, before starting the tournament proper against hosts West Indies on 3 May.
"We've had three warm-up games in Pretoria, with two wins and a loss, " Watson told Cricket Scotland prior to a final friendly defeat to Kenya.
Ireland will travel to Dubai in January for a pre World Cup training camp, and have scheduled warm-up games against New Zealand and Zimbabwe in Nagpur.
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In the warm-up games we have already had a taste of the hysterical, intimidating appealing the umpires will face on Thursday, and it is most unsavoury.
After travelling to Wales for their quarter-final, France return to Paris for their last-four clash with England, having beaten Brian Ashton's team twice in pre-tournament warm-up games.
Like Ponting, Pietersen is at his most vulnerable when he is not dictating proceedings and has looked particularly ill-at-ease with the short ball in the warm-up games.
Head coach Ian McGeechan had said he expected the Emerging Boks to be his side's toughest opposition of the warm-up games and they remained in contention to the end.
Nixon's opportunities in Pakistan and Sri Lanka are likely to be limited to warm-up games with Alec Stewart certain to play in all six Test, providing he remains fit.
The Test squad will arrive in the Caribbean on 21 January and play two warm-up games prior to the first of four Tests, which begins in Jamaica on 4 February.
But the rest of his fellow recruits may well have benefited from more than just the two warm-up games scheduled, the second of which is against the United Arab Emirates in Germany next weekend.
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Cook is hopeful that Durham's three-man England contingent, who have been away in New Zealand, can now return to the county fold and figure in their warm-up games, starting with Thursday's two-day friendly against Yorkshire at Headingley.
The pitch at Cardiff is expected to take spin but Hauritz has looked out of sorts in Australia's two warm-up games and took just one wicket in 30 overs against the England Lions at a cost of 102 runs.
England will play warm-up games against Pakistan and Canada in Dhaka - which Swann, Broad and Bresnan are expected to be fit for - before beginning their quest to win a first World Cup on 22 February against the Netherlands.
Despite relying on the likes of Patrik Berger and Pavel Nedved to implement his policy of attack, he was quick to overlook Berger in the warm-up games when he knew a replacement would be needed for the Liverpool midfielder who is suspended for the first two games.
However, Saleh was criticized by local media for having weak opponents in warm-up rehearsal games, while the 2004 hosts, Tunisia, played a first level quality team like France.
Uncertainty about participation and funding difficulties meant the Cypriot men's basketball team had no warm-up matches, which they would normally schedule ahead of the games, said head coach Panayiotis Yiannaras.
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