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born 1999 South Africa
Saarah Smith (born 30 March 1999) is a South African cricketer.In August 2018, she was named in the South Africa Women's squad for their series against the West Indies Women.She made her Women's Twenty20 International cricket (WT20I) debut for South Africa against West Indies Women on 24 September 2018.
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The fact that he is a brilliant cricketer is just the cherry on top.
Every lesson that I learn I take it into life because life is the biggest challenge anyone can face.
To believe in yourself and to have patience in what the Almighty has planned is one of the best lessons you’ll receive.
AB de Villiers and Virat Kholi are two cricketers where I admire their confidence and fearlessness when they go into bat.
There are definitely many lessons that I have learnt and still learning but the biggest lessons was patience and self-confidence.
But I guess these things happen and I just have to work harder and little bit smarter next time around.
My family is definitely on top of the list, especially my parents who have been pushing me to get the best out of me.
Saadiek Davids who is my private coach and most importantly my mentor has been my rock through my entire cricket career.
And last but not least my teammates, they know who they are, I couldn’t have done these performances without them (literally).
Every time I was recovering from an injury and starting to get fit again another injury would flare up and it became extremely frustrating and even depressing at one point.
Every shot is played with ease and it is amazing to watch. Hashim Amla has always been one of my idols, and I wish I could have met him.
I would like to see myself as an international cricket player, if not for the Proteas then definitely overseas. I would love to play for my country again and travel the world.
Kevin Heuvel from MK Handcrafted is a very good friend of mine and we have had many chats that have kept me to consistently in a good space.
I think definitely more super league cricket and for the pipeline to be stronger, and for us women to get paid as well as what men get paid.
Mentally, I was in a very good space and I knew from the first match that this was going to be a good few days of cricket for myself and my team.
It has definitely given me a boost to work even harder because those performances were definitely not my best which makes things even more exciting for the future.
Achieving these stats felt good but I know that I could’ve achieved more in all three matches, every time that I went out I was very disappointed in myself because I knew I could’ve done better.
Amla was a cricketer I looked up to because of who he was, he was a Muslim first and cricketer second, and I admire that so much.
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