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Interview with sa women cricketers marizanne kapp dane van niekerk
Dane van Niekerk (born 14 May 1993) is a South African cricketer born in Pretoria and educated at Centurion High School. A leg spin bowler, she has appearances in Test, One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) representing South Africa and is the women's team captain in all three forms (Test, ODI and T20I) since June 2016.
Contents
- Interview with sa women cricketers marizanne kapp dane van niekerk
- Protea women s cricket captain dane van niekerk
- Early life and career
- Education
- References
Protea women s cricket captain dane van niekerk
Early life and career
She played domestically for Highveld Women and Northerns Women before becoming one of the first two South African females (along with Marizanne Kapp) to be included in the Eastern Province cricket team academy (men's team). She was selected as part of the South Africa national women's cricket team for the 2009 Women's Cricket World Cup in Australia, becoming a regular presence in the squad. She played in the 2013 Women's Cricket World Cup, as well as representing South Africa at the Women's World Twenty20 in 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016.
Bowling leg-spin, she made her debut at 16 years of age in March 2009, during the World Cup match against the West Indies at Newcastle. In her second match, she took 3/11 as South Africa beat Sri Lanka in Sydney to claim 7th place in the tournament. Through the years she has developed into an all-rounder and became a T20I opening batter.
In January 2013 she became the first South African woman to take an international hat-trick, finishing with 5/28 in an ODI match against the West Indies. A month later she scored her first ODI half century with a 55 not out during a World Cup match against Pakistan. She shared a partnership of 128 runs with Marizanne Kapp, the highest South African partnership for the 6th wicket.
In January 2014 against Pakistan, van Niekerk took her second ODI five-wicket haul with 5/17. She was the first South African woman player to achieve two five-wicket hauls in ODIs. Later that year, facing Pakistan at the Women's World T20I, she scored 90 not out in a 163 run unbroken partnership with Lizelle Lee, which is the second highest individual score in T20I by a South African woman and the second highest partnership in all women's T20I history.
In 2015, she took part of the inaugural season of the Australian Women's Big Bash League playing for the Melbourne Renegades.
On 21 June 2016, she was appointed as South Africa women's captain for all forms (Test, ODI and T20I) following Mignon du Preez's decision to step down as captain.
In February 2017, during the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier, she became the seventh player to reach 1,000 runs and take 100 wickets in WODIs. She also became the first player for South Africa to take 100 wickets in WODIs.
She also went onto become the first ever bowler(in either men's or women's cricket) to take four wickets in international cricket history without conceding a single run and also set the record for recording the best bowling figures for South Africa in Women's World Cup historyShe also went onto become the leading wicket taker during the 2017 ICC Women's World Cup tournament with 15 scalps
Education
She is studying sports management in Port Elizabeth.