Marizanne Kapp is the first South African cricketer to take a hat-trick in a Women’s Twenty20 International match. |
In 2023, Delhi Capitals picked her for the Women’s Premier League. |
She was born into a fitness-oriented family and played various sports at school, focusing on her fitness routine. |
Kapp enjoyed playing rugby, soccer, and cricket as a child, with cricket becoming her favorite sport. |
Representing Eastern Province, she excelled in multiple sports. |
She scored 106 runs against Western Province in the CSA Women’s Provincial League while playing for the Northern women’s team in 2012. |
Kapp was included in the ICC Women’s ODI Team in December 2017. |
She received a national contract from Cricket South Africa for the 2018–19 season. |
Kapp achieved her 100th wicket during a WODI against West Indies in September 2018. |
She was South Africa’s leading run-scorer during the 2018 ICC Women’s World Twenty20 tournament. |
Kapp joined the Sydney Sixers for the 2018–19 Women’s Big Bash League season. |
In 2019, she played her 100th WODI match against Pakistan. |
She participated in the Women’s T20 Super League in South Africa in 2019. |
Kapp was part of South Africa’s squad for the 2020 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup. |
She played for Oval Invincibles in The Hundred tournament in 2021 and 2022, receiving the Player of the Match award. |
Kapp represented South Africa in the 2022 Women’s Cricket World Cup. |
In May 2022, she excelled in the FairBreak Invitational T20 in Dubai. |
Kapp achieved her first century in test cricket against England in June 2022. |
She was selected for the Commonwealth Games but had to withdraw due to family reasons in July 2022. |
Kapp took compassionate leave from the T20 squad to support her wife in February 2023. |
She was signed by Delhi Capitals for Rs. 1.5 crore in the Women’s Premier League. |
Kapp and her wife made history by being the first married couple to bat together in a major ICC tournament. |
In 2022, she won the ICC player of the month award and expressed her gratitude during an interview. |
Kapp shared that she practices by batting or bowling 3000 balls before a match. |
She battled Covid-19 four times during the pandemic. |
Kapp credits her parents for instilling a strong work ethic in her. |
She values keeping her family united due to her parents' separation in her youth. |
Kapp has been known to share pictures of herself enjoying alcoholic beverages on social media. |