Marizanne Kapp

Some Lesser Known Facts About Marizanne Kapp

• Marizanne Kapp is a South African cricketer who is known for being the first cricketer for South Africa to take a hat-trick in a Women’s Twenty20 International match. In 2023, she was picked by Delhi Capitals for the Women’s Premier League.

• She was born into a family that was totally into fitness. She and her younger sister used to play all the sports in school. When she was in school, her father used to take her for a sprint every night, swimming in the morning and running during the day. She used to take care of her fitness while growing up and it became a routine for her.

• When she was young, she used to play rugby, soccer and many other sports with the boys. In an interview, she said that she was a tomboy. She liked playing all the sports, but cricket was her favourite. In an interview, she said that she learned a lot of things from cricket including bowling, batting and fielding.

• Kapp represented her region, Eastern Province, in several sports.

• When she finished school, her mother asked her to find a job, but at that time, there was no money given to the players who played for South Africa.

• In 2012, when she was part of the Northern women’s team, she scored 106 runs against Western Province in the CSA Women’s Provincial League.

  

• In December 2017, she was included in the ICC Women’s ODI Team.

• In March 2018, she became one of the fourteen players who received their national contract from Cricket South Africa for the 2018–19 season.

• In September 2018, she played the WODI against West Indies and took her 100th wicket in the tournament.

• In October 2018, she was included in South Africa’s squad for the 2018 ICC Women’s World Twenty20 tournament in West Indies. In the tournament, she scored 98 runs in four matches becoming the leading run-scorer for South Africa.

  

• In November 2018, she became part of the Sydney Sixers’ squad for the 2018–19 Women’s Big Bash League season.

  

• In May 2019, she became the third player from South Africa to play the 100th WODI match against Pakistan.

  

• In September 2019, she became part of the inaugural edition of the Women’s T20 Super League in South Africa for the team Duchesses, previously known as M van der Merwe XI.

• In January 2020, she was included in South Africa’s squad for the 2020 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup in Australia.

  

• On 23 July 2020, she received a call for training in Pretoria, along with 24 other women, before the England tour.

• She played in the inaugural season of The Hundred tournament for Oval Invincibles in 2021. In April 2022, she again played for the Oval Invincibles for the 2022 season of The Hundred in England where she was named Player of the Match in the final innings.

  

• In February 2022, she was chosen as a part of South Africa’s team for the 2022 Women’s Cricket World Cup in New Zealand.

  

• On March 2022, took her first five-wicket in a match against England in the World Cup.

• In May 2022, she played the FairBreak Invitational T20 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates for the Falcons team. In the final between of the tournament with the Tornadoes team, she scored 67 runs which included six fours and two sixes. She became the player of the match in the tournament, but they could not win the match.

  

• In June 2022, she scored her first century with 150 runs in test cricket against England. Her score also became the highest individual score for South Africa in a women’s Test match.

• In July 2022, she was picked for the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England as a part of the South Africa team, but had to leave the team because her brother-in-law met with an accident and her nephews fell ill.

• In February 2023, she took compassionate leave from South Africa’s T20 squad for the T20 tri-series against India because her wife Dane van Niekerk could not join the team. Dane was unable to clear the fitness test and she was left out of the squad. Kapp took to Twitter to thank Cricket South Africa and said,
  

  Emotional couple of days, I am a wife FIRST and then a cricketer. Thank you CSA for affording me the opportunity to be home to support my wife and see the family, as I mentally refresh and prepare for the T20 World Cup. It has always been my biggest honour to represent my country.”

• In February 2023, she was bought by Delhi Capitals for Rs. 1.5 crore in the Women’s Premier League.

• In 2018, Kapp and her wife became the first married couple to bat together in a major ICC tournament with a partnership of 67 runs.

• In 2022, when she won the ICC player of the month award, she said,
  

  It really means a lot for me to win the ICC Women’s Player of the Month award, especially being up against two absolutely brilliant players in Shabnim Ismail and Nat Sciver. What made my first Test century so special was that number one, our first Test match (in 2014) was an absolute nightmare. Then having to play another one after eight years where I had minimum preparation for the Test match because I was unwell and then finding my team in the position we were in at 45 for four, it is something that will stay with me throughout my career.”

• In an interview, she said that she bats 3000 balls or bowls 3000 balls before playing any match.

• During the Covid-19 pandemic, she caught the virus four times.

• In an interview, she said that she learned a lot from her parents who always motivated her to work hard otherwise she would have given up on cricket and chosen another career.

• When she was young, her parents split up so she always wanted to keep the family together because she did not want any fights in the family.

• She often posts pictures of herself drinking alcohol on social media.