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Will Young

Team flagNZ32 yrs
batting styleAll Rounder
#22 Batter in ODI
#44 Batter in Test
Career & Stats
Batting
Bowling

Will Young Recent Form

Batting

NZ vs SL, ODI56 (68) *
NZ vs SL, ODI26 (40)
NZ vs SL, ODI48 (46)
NZ vs SL, T20I30 (32)
NZ vs SL, T20I19 (19)
NZ vs IND, Test71 (138)
NZ vs IND, Test51 (100)
NZ vs IND, Test18 (45)
NZ vs IND, Test23 (28)
NZ vs IND, Test48 (76) *
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Will Young Career Stats

Batting

FormatMatInnR100s50sHSSRAvgFoursSixesDuckRank
ODI343413743912087.5745.8015126----
T20I20193440256101.7818.113510----
Test1934961098944.0630.031155----
T20-Blast6656002577.789.3340----
WC ODI66206027083.7434.33236----

Bowling

FormatMatInnWEconAvgBest3W5WSRMaidenRank
ODI34000.000.000000.00----
T20I20000.000.000000.00----
Test19000.000.000000.00----
T20-Blast6000.000.000000.00----
WC ODI6000.000.000-0000.00----

Career Debut Information

ODI Debut
New Zealand vs Bangladesh at Dunedin - March 20, 2021
T20I Debut
New Zealand vs Bangladesh at Hamilton - March 28, 2021
Test Debut
New Zealand vs West Indies at Hamilton - December 03 - 06, 2020
T20-Blast Debut Nottinghamshire v Northamptonshire Trent Bridge, Nottingham, 31-5-2024

Teams played for

Ireland New Zealand U19 Central Districts New Zealand A New Zealand New Zealand XI

About Will Young

NameWill Young
GenderMale
Birth22 Nov 1992
Birth PlaceNew Plymouth, New Zealand
Height6 ft 2 in
NationalityNew Zealander

Middle-order batsman, William Alexander Young has the willingness to bat for longer periods with a bonafide defense. Young plays for the New Zealand national team and the Central Stags.... continue reading

Player Bio

Middle-order batsman, William Alexander Young has the willingness to bat for longer periods with a bonafide defense. Young plays for the New Zealand national team and the Central Stags.

Will Young made his first-class debut for Central Stags against Auckland on March 2, 2012. Soon after his announcement to the domestic circuit, Young was made the captain of the New Zealand U-19 team for the ICC U-19 Cricket World Cup in 2012. 

At the age of 23, Young was hand-picked to captain the Central Stags in December 2015. 

Under his captaincy, Central districts became the champions of the Ford Trophy in 2015-16. 

Young, predominantly a red-ball player, led his side unbeaten in the Plunket Shield in 2018, amassing 686 runs in 10 games.

The pressure of captaincy deprived him of the batting masterclass he was and eventually, he decided to step down from the captaincy. In December 2018, Young was named in New Zealand's Test squad for the first time against Sri Lanka, but he could not get a chance to play. 

A few months later, the New Plymouth-based cricketer was labelled to make his debut against Bangladesh in March 2019 in test cricket, however, a terrorist attack in Christchurch saw the match cancelled by the New Zealand cricket board. 

A major setback in Young’s career was the shoulder injury, which forced him to opt-out of the reserve squad for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019. Despite his injury, Young scored back-to-back centuries against Australia in a three-match unofficial ODI series and after a long haul of the battle against all odds, Young made his test debut against West Indies on December 3, 2020. Will Young made his ODI debut on March 23, 2021 against Bangladesh. However, he could score only one run in the match. 

(As of March 2021)