A while back I said that New Zealanders would feel hard done by that Luke Ronchi had decided he was Australian.
At that time McCullum was flirting with himself.
Now it is a full blown love affair and New Zealanders couldn’t have given a toss about Ronchi.
The reason I said it Ronchi was just looking murderous in Australia at that time, but Gilly and Haddin were sitting ahead of him in the order.
Victoria thought so much of Ronchi, Crosthwaite appealed for a one hand one bounce rule to get rid of him in the 2020 final.
In the IPL Ronchi looked super psyched to be there, but didn’t score much.
He played only 4 games, for 34 runs, and was dropped.
Finally with Haddin’s broken and infected finger Ronchi gets his chance, and with Ponting out he was put in as a pinch hitter at 3.
Boy, did he pinch.
He took 3 sixes off Chris Gayle in an over, and that seemed to kick start him towards carnage fuelled mayhem.
By the time the West Indies had slayed him, courtesy of the oldest non Pakistani 26 year old in world cricket Nikita Miller, he had smote 64 off 28 balls.
It was devastatingly clean hitting.
Like a young Yusuf Pathan.
It didn’t seem to matter where the ball was pitched, how the ball was pitched, whom the ball was pitched by.
Short, full, wide, and straight all seemed hittable for him.
He may be behind Haddin in the pecking order, but he is pecking damn hard.www.cricketwithballs.com
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