straw man
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I didn't know that about Young - clearly I hadn't watched enough. Think that forward and across movement is a really bad habit common to NZ domestic batsmen that translates very badly to international level. It's not even an early commitment to the front foot that then leaves him time to adjust to the shorter ball and go back - instead he falls forward just as the ball is bowled and has no time to adjust. Can't play those back foot shots off a half-step forward, while unbalanced, at least not against Bennett's pace (probably 140).Yeah I went to the Basin to see how Young's early commitment of weight onto the front foot would handle someone like Bennett, and unfortunately it didn't really go so well. Just the one clip through midwicket in Young's column, a blow to the right hip and then a wicket in Bennett's column.
Even Verma was getting enough lift to occasionally highlight that really premature bias towards the front foot Young has.
Possible he goes about things slightly differently in FC where he doesn't have to force the pace so much, I guess?