“Yeah, they’ve been really good. They’re asking questions of batters and it’ll be quite cool for them. New Zealand batting coach Luke Ronchi is highly impressed with India’s raw pace attack which has consistently posed probing questions for home team batters during the first two ODIs where they have been shot out for 185 and 134 respectively. The quartet of Arshdeep Singh, Auqib Nabi, Anshul Kamboj, and Gurnoor Brar have accounted for 17 out of the 20 Black Caps wickets across Auckland and Wellington.
They’re going into games where the ball isn’t flying around, the ball is actually assisting them and then they’ll be happy with that,” the former wicketkeeper-batter said.
New Zealand batting coach Luke Ronchi is highly impressed with India’s raw pace attack which has consistently posed probing questions for home team batters during the first two ODIs where they have been shot out for 185 and 134 respectively.
“The other night, if either team had made 200 batting first, that would have been a massive score, so it’s realising that okay, for 10 overs you might be going at two, three (runs) an over, you’re actually still going okay.
“They’ve done that really well and they’ve challenged our batters and taken wickets early and made different impacts in different games, so it’s exciting to see when you see younger guys come into the game and perform and try and push their case to be playing more and more and more,” Ronchi said. “Technically, yeah, they will (prepare better) because that’s traditionally what we have here for Test cricket, it’s a lot greener surfaces,” Ronchi told reporters on the eve of the third ODI. The former keeper said that it becomes imperative for batters to shift gears and not worry about scoring rates when the going gets tough on pacer-friendly wickets. “I think both teams have realised that the surfaces probably aren’t your traditional one-day wickets, the scoring was higher in the T20s which is it, but these have just been a bit more challenging and it’s understanding what a par score might be and what each person does to try and help the team in that space,” Ronchi said. “It’s just trying to stay calm and realise the adaptability of what you need to do in those moments, but they’re always continuing conversations because again, tomorrow it might be an amazing wicket and then again, we go to Mount Maunganui, it’s a different wicket again,” Ronchi said.
