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born 1990 South Africa
Marizanne Kapp (/mɑːriːˈzɑːn ˈkæp/ mah-ree-ZAHN KAP, Afrikaans pronunciation: [mɑːriˈzɑːn_ˈkæp]; born 4 January 1990) is a South African international cricketer who plays for South Africa national women's cricket team. She was the first female cricketer to take a hat-trick in a T20 match for South Africa.
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They sometimes ask if they should have bowled this ball or should have had this field and, usually, I would just tell them what I think.
For me, my biggest weapon is trying to land the ball on the seam and usually when I'm at my best, if I do that, the ball either nips in or out.
I just went back and looked at some footage of me in the past and tried to be a bit more upright from the crease and the momentum going forward.
Most of my games have been prior to that and that's probably when I wasn't batting as well and batting a lot lower down and not feeling confident about my batting.
When I thought they would maybe try and lap or they were going to run at me or step across the line and I try something different, that's usually when I go for runs.
I feel in T20 cricket you sometimes get away with bad technique or bad bowling, whereas in ODI cricket you have to be good at your skills for so much longer
It took a lot of mental work because I'm someone that needs to bowl a certain amount of balls and need to spend a certain amount of time in the nets [batting], otherwise I don't feel confident.
For me, it's actually been downscaling, because I used to train so hard and especially worked so hard on my skills that when there was game day, I was just too tired to actually play.
I've found if I just stick to what I do best I usually end up with the wickets or being quite economical. There were some games where I went for a bit of runs when I changed what I do well.
Or I would tell them to first stick to bowling their line and length for as long as possible before they go to their death bowling or, on a wicket where it's a bit slower and there's a bigger boundary, bowling it into the wicket rather than going full and straight at the stumps.
So I just try and keep it simple, hit my hard back of a length, bowl line and length, and try and bowl as many dot balls as possible.