Luke Ronchi

New Zealand|Wicketkeeper Batter
Luke Ronchi
INTL CAREER: 2008 - 2018
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Full Name

Luke Ronchi

Born

April 23, 1981, Dannevirke, Manawatu, New Zealand

Age

42y 331d

Nicknames

Rock

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Fielding Position

Wicketkeeper

Playing Role

Wicketkeeper Batter

Height

1.8 m

Luke Ronchi has the rare distinction of having represented both New Zealand, his country of birth, and Australia.

His first international incarnation came for Australia in the West Indies in 2008 when he stood in creditably for the injured Brad Haddin in four ODIs and a T20: his glovework was brilliant and in St Kitts in the last of those ODIs he clubbed a 22-ball half-century. But his form fell away the following domestic summer and he added only two more T20 internationals to his tally for Australia.

For a while after, Ronchi was there and thereabouts in state cricket for Western Australia, for whom he had played for about a decade at that point, having established himself as a solid keeper and clean striker of the ball. In 2007 he made a 56-ball hundred for them, then the fastest in Australian domestic one-day history. Also that season, in a first-class game against Queensland, he lashed a belligerent 51-ball hundred where the second fifty came off 11 balls.

Ronchi was overtaken around the turn of the decade by other keepers, among them Tim Paine and Matthew Wade, in the queue to succeed Haddin, and at the end of 2011-12, he decided to try his luck in New Zealand, securing a contract with Wellington. Once he qualified for national representation, he earned a call-up to the ODI side in 2013, and debuted against England in an ODI in May, becoming the first man since Kepler Wessels nearly 20 years earlier to represent two ICC Full-Member nations.

As New Zealand rode an ODI wave that eventually culminated in defeat in the final of the 2015 World Cup, Ronchi made a decent case for himself as a lower-order batter. He made 79 and 99 from No. 7 in back-to-back defeats against South Africa in Mount Maunganui in 2014, and smashed 170 not out off 99 balls in a big win against Sri Lanka in Dunedin early in 2015.

In May that year, seven years into his international career, Ronchi played his first Test, against England in Leeds, making 88 and 31 in a win in Headingley. He played three more Tests, all in India in 2016 (he made 80 in Kanpur), two T20 World Cups and two Champions Trophies before calling time on his international career in June 2017.

Luke Ronchi Career Stats

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
Tests4803198839.8743273.840241650
ODIs856891397170*23.671220114.50141494310512
T20Is3326635951*17.95256140.23013014246
FC10015815561414839.25668583.971623--34317
List A190171204194170*27.773919107.01721--24932
T20s20418821421710225.252747153.5112542219311936

Bowling

FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
Tests4------------
ODIs85------------
T20Is33------------
FC100-30120---2.40-000
List A190-000-----000
T20s204------------
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Recent Matches of Luke Ronchi

MatchBatWktDateGroundFormat
United vs Zalmi520c/0s07-Jun-2021KarachiOTHERT20
United vs Sultans180c/0s08-Mar-2020RawalpindiT20
United vs Zalmi60c/0s07-Mar-2020RawalpindiT20
United vs Qalandars481c/0s04-Mar-2020LahoreT20
United vs Kings85*2c/1s01-Mar-2020RawalpindiT20

Photos of Luke Ronchi

Ian Bell and Luke Ronchi oversee New Zealand's training session
The long and the short of it: Kyle Jamieson and Luke Ronchi find a reason to smile
Luke Ronchi was in good touch for Islamabad United
Luke Ronchi takes the aerial route on the leg side
Luke Ronchi shapes to play the ball
Luke Ronchi whips off the bails to catch Shai Hope short of his crease