Luke Ronchi is a New Zealand-Australian cricket coach and a former cricketer.
23 Facts About Luke Ronchi
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Luke Ronchi represented both the Australia national cricket team and New Zealand national cricket team in international cricket.
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Luke Ronchi played for Wellington in New Zealand domestic matches and has played Twenty20 matches for a range of sides.
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Luke Ronchi was educated at Kent Street Senior High School.
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Luke Ronchi is an aggressive batsman and fields as a wicket-keeper.
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In February 2012, Luke Ronchi announced his intention to return to New Zealand to further his cricketing career, and signed with the Wellington cricket team the following month.
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Luke Ronchi made his ODI debut for New Zealand in May 2013, becoming the first player to play for both Australia and New Zealand at international level.
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Luke Ronchi made his Test debut for New Zealand in May 2015 against England scoring 88 off 70 balls.
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Luke Ronchi announced his retirement from international cricket on 21 June 2017.
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Luke Ronchi is well known for his ability to score runs quickly and on 7 February 2007 he broke the record for the fastest domestic one-day hundred in Australian cricket.
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Opening the batting against New South Wales, Luke Ronchi scored his maiden one-day ton off only 56 deliveries, beating the previous record held by fellow West Australian Adam Voges of 62 deliveries.
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In November 2007 Luke Ronchi scored one of the fastest centuries in Australian Domestic history with a ton from 51 balls against Queensland.
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Luke Ronchi struck 11 sixes in his innings of 105* with his second fifty coming from just 11 balls.
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Luke Ronchi was recruited by the Mumbai Indians team in 2007, one of the eight Indian Premier League franchises.
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Luke Ronchi played five matches for the team, spread throughout the 2008 and 2009 tournaments, scoring a total of 34 runs at an average of 6.80.
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Luke Ronchi made his debut on home soil in a Twenty20 match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground against the South Africans as wicketkeeper when Haddin was rested from the team.
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In February 2012, Luke Ronchi announced his intention to return to New Zealand in an attempt to qualify for the national team.
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Luke Ronchi signed with Wellington in March 2012, and made his Plunket Shield debut on 18 March against Central Districts, scoring a century, 111, on debut for the team.
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Luke Ronchi made his debut for the team on 31 May 2013 at Lord's, scoring a duck and taking three catches.
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Luke Ronchi thus became the first player to play international cricket for both Australia and New Zealand, 8th player in ODI history and the first since Kepler Wessels in the 1980s to play for two full members of the International Cricket Council.
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In January 2015, Luke Ronchi hit an unbeaten 170 off 99 balls against Sri Lanka at University Oval in Dunedin.
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Luke Ronchi is the only batsman to have scored a 150 in an ODI innings when batting at number 7 position or lower.
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Luke Ronchi enjoyed a successful tournament racking up 429 runs at a strike rate of 180.25 as an opener and scored three half-centuries, including a 16-ball 50 against Durham, the third fastest half-century in English T20 history.