My ultimate goal is to win the World Cup for South Africa: Marizanne Kapp
India Today
Marizanne Kapp has played 22 matches for South Africa in the Women's World Cup since her debut in 2009, scoring 451 runs and picking up 32 wickets.
South Africa’s Marizanne Kapp said that her ultimate goal is to help her team win the Women’s World Cup. The 32-year-old has played 22 matches in the mega event since her debut in 2009. Even as she has picked up 32 wickets with a fifer, she has scored 451 runs at an average of 28.18 with a top score of 102* against Pakistan back in 2013.
In the previous edition of the World Cup in New Zealand, Kapp scored 203 runs from eight games at an average of 40.60 and picked up 12 wickets at an excellent economy rate of 4.73. But after finishing second in the points table, South Africa, led by Sune Luus, faced a 137-run defeat to Heather Knight’s England in the semi-final in Christchurch.
“Ultimately, it will still be to win the World Cup. If someone can achieve that... especially the way we kind of ‘found’ it in South Africa. It wasn’t really on the map, so to be able to play for the South African team and win a World Cup. We haven’t won one at this stage, so for a women’s team to win that will be the ultimate goal for me,” Kapp was quoted as saying in an interview with Scroll.
Although she picked up a five-wicket haul against England, Kapp picked her cameo against New Zealand as her favourite moment of the tournament. Kapp scored an unbeaten 34 off 35 and helped South Africa chase down 229 and win the game by two wickets. She also got two important wickets of Brooke Halliday and Hannah Rowe in that match.
“The cameo against New Zealand was my favourite. It was a lot of pressure. I’m glad it went my way and my team’s way. It’s funny actually to put it in words because we were cruising in that game with Wolvie (Laura Wolvaardt) and Sune Luus having quite a big partnership in there and having a few wickets in hand. But again, that’s cricket and it can change with even one ball. Then, in the last ten overs, we needed about sixty runs and we took it as deep as possible.
Kapp is currently plying her trade for the Falcons Women in the inaugural edition of the Fairbreak Invitational Women’s T20 2022 in Dubai.
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