Luke Ronchi: Black Caps batting coach on the Black Caps beating Pakistan in Dunedin

Thankfully for the Black Caps, the rain in Dunedin let up in time for them to beat Pakistan.

New Zealand won the shortened fifteen-overs-apiece T20 match by 5 wickets.

Batting coach Luke Ronchi joined D'Arcy Waldegrave on Sportstalk after the game.

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'd be quite the display into needing for the Black Camps.
Te can take twenty eighth between them and Pakistan, comfortable
enough victory in the end, and at the start, well
it could be an absolute slaughter. Ronkey, the batting coach
joins us, Now, what did you say to those guys
to start off with Luke, because there was a stunner

(00:32):
of an opener? What have they hit? Ten sixers and
four fours and a handful of overs.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
I didn't have to say anything. Actually, those guys are
naturally aggressive anyway. So obviously the way they did all yeah,
all those six especially after a maiden to start, I
don't think anyone was quite expecting it to go that way.
It did, I guess, with all those sixes. But the
guys played beautifully.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
But they had the freedom to do that. They were
given that on presuming because it was a short game
to only fifteen overs. You've got to make hay right
if the sun's.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
Shining exactly, even if the sun's not shining, so we're
definitely yeah, I think guys have got that freedom to
play their style. Of cricket and at the moment it's
working beautifully.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Is this just a theory that you're running right the
way through the whole series because you've got some of
your top men are not there, they're playing overseas. You've
got not the next tier because they'd be disrespectful to
one of these players who are top tier players. But
I think given an opportunity to say, look, make it count,
show us what you've.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
Got, it's actually just making sure they go out and
be themselves. That's the biggest thing. I think. Sometimes any
player sort of gets an opportunity and they want to
do more than they really need to, and and that
can sometimes make a little bit harder on themselves to
sort of put performances on the board. So as long
as we can keep giving the same message about each

(01:48):
player's picked for a reason and that sort of stuff,
and they can go out and play their style of
credit because that's what gets them to this stage and
gets them doing what they do in their careers. It's
making sure they believe that and remember that as much
as possible and go out there and yeah, and that
just let things unfold.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Get to the end of four overs, you're fifty without loss.
Conversations change around what you want to achieve or presuming
what you're saying. Nah, just carry on, you guys are
going fine exactly.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
That's the thing. Like another ones out there in the
middle doing it. So it's like, well, there's no need
to send out a message and so I guess muddle
up people's minds because then all of a sudden they
might think something different or or it might just things
have become unclear. So it's like, well, just let them
do them and the other ones in the action so
they know what they're up to.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
So all those runs you win by five wickets eleven
balls remaining. Was that tighter than you'd like? No, not
at all.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
That's the game of cricket. You expect if you're going
to n T twenty credit, you expect the opposition to
have some good periods as well, and they're allowed to
take some wickets and do their thing. But again, it
was still it was a comfortable game for the guys
that had an awesome job with the ball as well
to keep taking wickets and restrict Pakistan and their frog
guys to go out and back the way they did
to zip runs off. It's always what we're after.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Next, what changes for the next three sorry five T
twenty So I'm presuming using this as an opportunity to
rotate around that guys have a cracker. We see much
change ahead of T twenty number three.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
I'm not one hundred percent sure, but I think a
lot of the stuff is more around sort of bowlers
and loads and just checking to see how they're traveling
after I guess a busy sort of champions trophy stent
and then coming back home pretty quickly into another series.
So are we making sure that the guys are still
ticking the way they need to tick and and getting

(03:43):
through the overs that need to be able to get through.
And from a batting point of view, it's just the
guys keep ticking along. They're doing a great job, so
just keep backing with what they're doing.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
You've broken anyone? Have you leoke Wrongkey runs Akay?

Speaker 3 (03:55):
Well, yeah, apart from Chap he heard his finger when
he was warming up, But out side of that, it's
so he's still got out there and did his thing,
but everyone else has been going well.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
Cunning play love that from New Zealand Cricket. It's always
the same. Let's it's some subcontinental players over and sticking
down a christ Hitch and then it's freezing cold and
see how they cope, I mean, come on really well.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
To be fair that the days leading into this game,
it's been nice and warm down here. Obviously christ Hitch
yesterday was cooking so but yeah, un fortunately today it's
obviously it was pretty bloom and cold and wet, so
not the greatest thing. But it's up to Auckland and
hopefully we'll get some good weather up there.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah I'm talking, and another double header. Let's hopefully that
the White Ferns can actually get through an entire game.
That enjoyed that very much. Hey, get on your week, ronkey.
Thanks to making yourself available. I'll look after yourself. Go well,
I'm we talking again soon.

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