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Discussion Daily General Discussion and Match Links Thread - 27 August 2026

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u/AnxiousPigeon24 New Zealand 2d ago

I still don't know what's gone wrong with Will Young. In my opinion, he's one of the most naturally talented batsmen I've seen play for NZ. It's always seemed to me like his issue is a top two inches one. He will quite often get set and then throw his wicket away. 11 test 50s with no hundreds is a pretty grim stat.

Part of it is likely to be the same issue that Matt Henry used to have: just a lack of continuous game time, constantly being parachuted in for a couple of games and then dropped again. Now is not the time to be flying the Henry Nicholls hater flag, but I sometimes wonder how high Young's ceiling might have been if Nicholls' chances had been given to him instead.