October 15, 2024 • 8 mins
Blackcaps batting coach ahead of Day One of the first cricket test against India.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Sport, the latest from the Land and just great rock.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's the Country Sport Breakfast with Brian Kelly on Gold Sport,
your home of live commentary. We're talking international cricket now
on the show, where the black Caps start their three
Test tour of India this afternoon, New Zealand time. First
ball has been bold at five o'clock from Bangalore. Joining
us on the show this morning is black Caps batting
coach Luke Ronky.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Morning.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Luke, morning mate.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
You're well, yeah, very very well.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
More importantly though, how are you you've lost another player
through injury?
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I believe.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Yeah, we've had a few little things popping up unfortunately,
but I mean that's the nature of sport and international sports.
So we've got enough players around that can definitely fill
those positions to map.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Four to compete in games.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
And you've only really just arrived in India in the
last couple of days flying back from New Zealand, haven't you.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Yeah, we've been sort of there's been a little bit
of too in the front obviously, just had that series
in Sri Lanka and came home for about a week
and we've been here now and prepping with some some
days of training leading into this first Test.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Are you you happy with the build up then so far?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeah, as happy as we can be. There's been a
bit of weather around so it's made it.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
A bit hard to get out onto the on the
grass surfaces, but the guys have been getting the hitting
in and the bowling that they need to make sure
that they are as mentally prepared as they possibly can
be to start the Test next tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
So what are you expecting out of the pitch, Luke?
Speaker 4 (01:40):
But Bengal Or traditionally has actually been quite a good
cricket wigger. It's it's not as as as much of
a turning surface sometimes as what you expect of surfaces
over here, so it should be quite a good a
good contest. It'll be exciting credit with the Indians playing
the way they have been and we're coming into the
series with some belief in how we want to play
(02:01):
our cricket in this part of the world. So it's
going to be an exciting exciting game to watch.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
When you win, I mean, is it going to be
the classic subcontinent pitch? When you win the toss or
your bet first, will that be the story?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
That'll be something well obviously chat about in the morning
with I guess that it has been undercover for a
while and with weather around and bits and pieces, so
but more often than not, Yes.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
How much can you take out of those first couple
of tests in Sri Lanka? Was that quite a good
learning curve for the team?
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Yeah, there are certain aspects of both those test matches
we are really really happy with. You obviously look at
the results and it's that's not the point you want
to I guess reflect on as much because obviously we
with losing both test matches and Shrilanka playing some fantastic cricket.
But from a collective was a group how we want
to go about our batting against spinning and in this
(03:03):
part of the world. And I guess you've got to
evolve your game plans and how you want to I guess,
I guess attack and a bowling attack like the Indians
or the Sri Lankans.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
So some of the strikes the guys have made it
is awesome.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Match gat I guess people are going to get out
as well. So it's making sure that the guys go
into these tests and are confident in the way they
want to go about. Each person will do it their way,
but also knowing that as a batting group and as
a team, we're backing each other and we go out
there and have full belief in the style and the
matches we want to try and put out there.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
And as we mentioned, a bit of an injury problem,
no Cain Williamson, So how the black Caps going to
fill the spot and one of the best batters in
the world.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
It is, It is a massive loss.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Obviously, Caine's been a massive part of this team for
a long long time and to not have him here
and a part of the world that he does he
does well with is it is.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
But it is what it is.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
And we've got the guys in the group that have
been around now for a while and I've played enough
Credit to understand that when they get an opportunity, they'll
go in.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
There and do their best.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
They'll they'll work out there, like I said before, their
their plans and how they want it there that possibly
can so, but it's the nature of the game of credit.
Guys will miss out on test matches through injury or
all different bits and pieces come up.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
So then it's like, right, well, we've got to make
sure that the next person in is ready and they
grab those chances.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
And you've got Jacob Duffy on the big Bird flying out.
I guess there's a replacement for Sears, would that be right?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Yep, yep, that's he's on his way as well.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
So yes, there's a few moving parts, but that's again
that's that's what you have to deal with. And the
guys come in like duff will come over and be
exciting to have him in the group as well.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Mark Chapman here as well. So there's some some new.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Guys in the group from a test match squad point
of view, and they bring a different energy because they're
super excited to be involved and be around it and.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
To sort of I guess, get their first taste.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Of test test match cricket from a squad point of
view and team point of view.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
So it's exciting to get new guys around the group.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
And you mentioned a bit of weather around.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Does it look like will get playing New Zealand time
this afternoon and across the five days if you had
an eye on.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
That weather we have we haven't had the best of
luck a whole, mister.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
The Afghanistan test we had here was washed out and
seems to.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Be at the moment. The weather around Bangalore is not playing.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Ball, so we'll say it. It'll just be one of
those things. We'll just play it as it is and
we'll just do the best we possibly can with the
weather it's about.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
And look, you might like to just remind the team
and maybe you'd like to know this as well. It
was today back in two thousand that New Zealand won
its first international cricket tournament when it beat India by
four wickets with two balls remaining in the Champions Trophy
in Nairobi.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Oh wow, it's.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Good especially remember those bits and peace like some wins
and get some nice results.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
So yeah, the guys will be Yeah, the guys, I'll love.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
To hear that fantastic Chris Ken was krik Kens was
one hundred and two not out in that match. Hey all,
the very very best. Look for the Test series against India.
Thanks for joining.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Us, not a problem, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
It's Luke Ronky joining us out of India.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I was just looking at the scorecard for that match
back in the Champions Trophy and no roby of all places.
Back in two thousand and we had Chris Ken's not
out on one hundred and two. And other top scorers
Nathan as A Still thirty seven, Roger Toose there's a
name thirty one and Chris Harris forty six and New
Zealand had beaten zim Barbwe in a quarter final in
(06:48):
Pakistan in the semi final.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Believe it or not, that was back in two thousand.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Interesting stats those ones mark went they a wasn't that interesting?
Speaker 5 (06:57):
Yeah, Champions Trophies actually sort of getting a second life.
They haven't run hosted it for a couple of years.
They're doing it in about February and Pakistan. So hopefully
the black Caps can bring home some silver. I'm not
going to hold my breath about that, but talking about silverware,
one team that does have a good chance of bringing
home some silver. I wouldn't say good actually because we've
got to get through Australia. But the White fans, hey, yeah,
(07:18):
this is a great story this morning. Yeah, who would
have thought? Nobody would have picked the West Indies thumping
the English earlier this morning. So they beat them so much,
well so heavily, that they've dropped them from first to third.
So West Indies went from third in the pool to
first and South Africa have gone to second, so England
they're on the big bird home. So it means for
(07:39):
the first time there's been twenty one Woman's World Cups,
both tea twenties and fifty over ones. This will be
the first time in all twenty one tournaments that there
won't be either England or India in the semi finals,
two of the big three alongside Australia. In the sort
of world of cricket and all the money that's put
into the English and Indian games, they won't be in
(08:00):
the Big Dance. And we've got a cracking chance of
making the final. We're playing the Westerners early as a
Saturday morning, I believe. So yeah, we could be in
a final for the first time since twenty ten. I
won't hold my breath because you never know what the
White fans are.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Funny game t twenties a funny game as well. And
the other semi final Australia will play South Africa and
that's on Friday.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Yeah Australia should they should. Yeah, they're they're the best.
They're two laps ahead of pretty much every other international team.
But you've got to be in the Big Dancer we
can do it. Oh, how good would that be?
Sport, the latest from the Land and just great rock.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's the Country Sport Breakfast with Brian Kelly on Gold Sport,
your home of live commentary. We're talking international cricket now
on the show, where the black Caps start their three
Test tour of India this afternoon, New Zealand time. First
ball has been bold at five o'clock from Bangalore. Joining
us on the show this morning is black Caps batting
coach Luke Ronky.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Morning.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Luke, morning mate.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
You're well, yeah, very very well.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
More importantly though, how are you you've lost another player
through injury?
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I believe.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Yeah, we've had a few little things popping up unfortunately,
but I mean that's the nature of sport and international sports.
So we've got enough players around that can definitely fill
those positions to map.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Four to compete in games.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
And you've only really just arrived in India in the
last couple of days flying back from New Zealand, haven't you.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Yeah, we've been sort of there's been a little bit
of too in the front obviously, just had that series
in Sri Lanka and came home for about a week
and we've been here now and prepping with some some
days of training leading into this first Test.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Are you you happy with the build up then so far?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeah, as happy as we can be. There's been a
bit of weather around so it's made it.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
A bit hard to get out onto the on the
grass surfaces, but the guys have been getting the hitting
in and the bowling that they need to make sure
that they are as mentally prepared as they possibly can
be to start the Test next tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
So what are you expecting out of the pitch, Luke?
Speaker 4 (01:40):
But Bengal Or traditionally has actually been quite a good
cricket wigger. It's it's not as as as much of
a turning surface sometimes as what you expect of surfaces
over here, so it should be quite a good a
good contest. It'll be exciting credit with the Indians playing
the way they have been and we're coming into the
series with some belief in how we want to play
(02:01):
our cricket in this part of the world. So it's
going to be an exciting exciting game to watch.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
When you win, I mean, is it going to be
the classic subcontinent pitch? When you win the toss or
your bet first, will that be the story?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
That'll be something well obviously chat about in the morning
with I guess that it has been undercover for a
while and with weather around and bits and pieces, so
but more often than not, Yes.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
How much can you take out of those first couple
of tests in Sri Lanka? Was that quite a good
learning curve for the team?
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Yeah, there are certain aspects of both those test matches
we are really really happy with. You obviously look at
the results and it's that's not the point you want
to I guess reflect on as much because obviously we
with losing both test matches and Shrilanka playing some fantastic cricket.
But from a collective was a group how we want
to go about our batting against spinning and in this
(03:03):
part of the world. And I guess you've got to
evolve your game plans and how you want to I guess,
I guess attack and a bowling attack like the Indians
or the Sri Lankans.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
So some of the strikes the guys have made it
is awesome.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Match gat I guess people are going to get out
as well. So it's making sure that the guys go
into these tests and are confident in the way they
want to go about. Each person will do it their way,
but also knowing that as a batting group and as
a team, we're backing each other and we go out
there and have full belief in the style and the
matches we want to try and put out there.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
And as we mentioned, a bit of an injury problem,
no Cain Williamson, So how the black Caps going to
fill the spot and one of the best batters in
the world.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
It is, It is a massive loss.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Obviously, Caine's been a massive part of this team for
a long long time and to not have him here
and a part of the world that he does he
does well with is it is.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
But it is what it is.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
And we've got the guys in the group that have
been around now for a while and I've played enough
Credit to understand that when they get an opportunity, they'll
go in.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
There and do their best.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
They'll they'll work out there, like I said before, their
their plans and how they want it there that possibly
can so, but it's the nature of the game of credit.
Guys will miss out on test matches through injury or
all different bits and pieces come up.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
So then it's like, right, well, we've got to make
sure that the next person in is ready and they
grab those chances.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
And you've got Jacob Duffy on the big Bird flying out.
I guess there's a replacement for Sears, would that be right?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Yep, yep, that's he's on his way as well.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
So yes, there's a few moving parts, but that's again
that's that's what you have to deal with. And the
guys come in like duff will come over and be
exciting to have him in the group as well.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Mark Chapman here as well. So there's some some new.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Guys in the group from a test match squad point
of view, and they bring a different energy because they're
super excited to be involved and be around it and.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
To sort of I guess, get their first taste.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Of test test match cricket from a squad point of
view and team point of view.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
So it's exciting to get new guys around the group.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
And you mentioned a bit of weather around.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Does it look like will get playing New Zealand time
this afternoon and across the five days if you had
an eye on.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
That weather we have we haven't had the best of
luck a whole, mister.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
The Afghanistan test we had here was washed out and
seems to.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Be at the moment. The weather around Bangalore is not playing.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Ball, so we'll say it. It'll just be one of
those things. We'll just play it as it is and
we'll just do the best we possibly can with the
weather it's about.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
And look, you might like to just remind the team
and maybe you'd like to know this as well. It
was today back in two thousand that New Zealand won
its first international cricket tournament when it beat India by
four wickets with two balls remaining in the Champions Trophy
in Nairobi.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Oh wow, it's.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Good especially remember those bits and peace like some wins
and get some nice results.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
So yeah, the guys will be Yeah, the guys, I'll love.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
To hear that fantastic Chris Ken was krik Kens was
one hundred and two not out in that match. Hey all,
the very very best. Look for the Test series against India.
Thanks for joining.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Us, not a problem, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
It's Luke Ronky joining us out of India.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I was just looking at the scorecard for that match
back in the Champions Trophy and no roby of all places.
Back in two thousand and we had Chris Ken's not
out on one hundred and two. And other top scorers
Nathan as A Still thirty seven, Roger Toose there's a
name thirty one and Chris Harris forty six and New
Zealand had beaten zim Barbwe in a quarter final in
(06:48):
Pakistan in the semi final.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Believe it or not, that was back in two thousand.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Interesting stats those ones mark went they a wasn't that interesting?
Speaker 5 (06:57):
Yeah, Champions Trophies actually sort of getting a second life.
They haven't run hosted it for a couple of years.
They're doing it in about February and Pakistan. So hopefully
the black Caps can bring home some silver. I'm not
going to hold my breath about that, but talking about silverware,
one team that does have a good chance of bringing
home some silver. I wouldn't say good actually because we've
got to get through Australia. But the White fans, hey, yeah,
(07:18):
this is a great story this morning. Yeah, who would
have thought? Nobody would have picked the West Indies thumping
the English earlier this morning. So they beat them so much,
well so heavily, that they've dropped them from first to third.
So West Indies went from third in the pool to
first and South Africa have gone to second, so England
they're on the big bird home. So it means for
(07:39):
the first time there's been twenty one Woman's World Cups,
both tea twenties and fifty over ones. This will be
the first time in all twenty one tournaments that there
won't be either England or India in the semi finals,
two of the big three alongside Australia. In the sort
of world of cricket and all the money that's put
into the English and Indian games, they won't be in
(08:00):
the Big Dance. And we've got a cracking chance of
making the final. We're playing the Westerners early as a
Saturday morning, I believe. So yeah, we could be in
a final for the first time since twenty ten. I
won't hold my breath because you never know what the
White fans are.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Funny game t twenties a funny game as well. And
the other semi final Australia will play South Africa and
that's on Friday.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Yeah Australia should they should. Yeah, they're they're the best.
They're two laps ahead of pretty much every other international team.
But you've got to be in the Big Dancer we
can do it. Oh, how good would that be?
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