#4 Luke Ronchi (New Zealand)
Two months ago, New Zealand were fiddling with Dean Brownlie and Tom Latham as their openers. But the former has been dropped and Latham is still recovering from a bout of poor scores which forced the selectors to try out Luke Ronchi as one of the openers in the warm-up games.
The aggressive Ronchi has previously opened at domestic level and like Martin Guptill, is a fiery batsman when on song. Even though Latham and Guptill are favourites to open against Australia, Ronchi at numbers 6 or 7 can be a vital batsman for the Kiwis.
His record 170 off 99 balls against Sri Lanka in Dunedin, the highest by any batsman at no.7 or lower, is testimony to his skills.
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