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\nMarizanne, who happens to be a regular feature and across formats for her side seems to be going this way
\nIt\u2019s the years ahead and what one manages to achieve therein that helps provide an emulsion to the coating of a rich colour with which one paints the cricketing canvas.
\nMarizanne Kapp brings more passion to her team and provides an induced spark that further ignites the Proteas fire.
\nIt is evident in greenish flames she exudes each time a timber is crushed, a wicket is sent flying, a keeper is given some effort behind the stump in sending the opposing batswoman on the long way back.
\nAnd each time Marizanne Kapp continues in undulating rhythm in that hoppy, rhythmic run-up to the popping crease, she signals the intent that she\u2019s has a tussle to engage over the batswomen with. It\u2019s both a challenge she finds herself proud to be a part of and a matter of responsibility for her South Africa.<\/p>\n
No theatrics; pure passion<\/h2>\n
But for a team like South Africa that\u2019s finely balanced between the guile of its spinners and the promise of pacers, including Shabnim, the outfit seems differently structured vis-\u00e0-vis a spin-reliant India where apart from Jhulan, the offies and leggie\u2019 are sharing the burden whilst the younger generation of Vastrakar and Mansi get first the experience. By March 2019, Marizanne Kapp would have completed a full decade of playing international cricket. Interestingly, she would, by then, have turned only 29. Now 29 seems an interesting number actually. Another year and you\u2019re into your 30s It may not be wrong to suggest that when one approaches 30, it seems one\u2019s nearer to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,818,284],"tags":[1362,699,1363,1364],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Marizanne-Kapp-KAPP-1.jpg\")
\nThere may be signs of aggression; of that dismal look on the face; but even in events such as missed opportunity or whether the ball only fractionally misses the stump, it goes on to accentuate the emotion that Kapp brings to her South African unit.
\nIt\u2019s more than a team. It\u2019s a close-knit unit that functions as a tricky clique of multi-faceted cricketers whose job is to compete relentlessly and eschew the wayward questions that they don\u2019t feel the need for entertaining: \u201cwhy is the Women\u2019s game not yet as popular as the men\u2019s version or who is the superstar of the South African unit or the most popular player?\u201d
\nFor a nation that prides itself on representing the rainbow colours, each colour brings a fascinating strength, each shade empowers the Protean collective.<\/p>\nHer record-breaking spree<\/h2>\n
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\nThis feeling of being one among a core team is a sight that\u2019s implicit in the right-arm medium pacer\u2019s craft. It personifies the trials and tribulations of being Marizanne Kapp, the woman who has against her name the feat of bowling 80 maidens and 2 for-fours.
\nWhen Marizanne contests, she doesn\u2019t contest alone; she brings a variety of feelings that, once seen from the Protean Kaleidoscope, signify the importance of fast bowling to her and in turn, of her passion to contribute.
\nIt was evident back then when as a newbie, she went for 8 an over from 3 against a cruel-looking Australia back in 2009. She wasn\u2019t the happiest soul that day. She took every single step with precision, focus and balance at their marriageable best as she went on to take South Africa to a win in the first ODI itself against the West Indies at Barbados, just hours ago.
\nThere wasn\u2019t an unhappy soul that day at Bridgetown as this earnest contestant leapfrogged a long mile and crossed the 100-wicket mark, stopping that day at 102.
\nHaving proved her presence is of paramount importance to the Proteas Women; being among the two leading strike bowlers who happen to share the new white-ball, one cannot imagine Marizanne today minus the ball in her hand in the Green camp.
\nHer’s\u00a0are the tiny mutant sparks at times when the flow of fire on the 22 yards isn\u2019t voluminous by her usual high standards.<\/p>\nAnd here\u2019s the best part about Marizanne Kapp<\/h2>\n
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\nWith 9 years of playing constant cricket, the right-armer, who hails from Port Elizabeth proves that neither her penchant for maintaining keen fitness has left her, nor has the pace bereft her zingy action.
\nGoing at around late 120s and early 130s is usual for the medium pacer who cherishes a feisty contest with the world\u2019s best. Truth be told, between Marizanne Kapp, the batswoman and the ball, it\u2019s often the latter two that appear flustered.
\nThis doesn\u2019t imply she doesn\u2019t go for runs. 2017 World Cup may not have been the most ideal by her standards. She was part of a Proteas line-up that was hammered by India earlier this year.
\nBut not the one to relent under pressure, neither the one who cherishes the needless dependence on verbatim, Kapp bounced back nicely during the one-dayers against Bangladesh and during the tour to England.<\/p>\nMarizanne Kapp’s importance to the current unit<\/h2>\n
\nSouth Africa can be both difficult to tackle when the likes of Ayabonga Khaka get the ball to do the talking. And also when the likes of Niekerk and Luus turn things around.
\nAnd in between these two divergent powers rests the responsibility of Marizanne Kapp, whose ODI economy is an enviable 3.6. Just who does that nowadays in an age where free-hits and switch-hits having made sweeps and square cuts outdated?
\nMost cricketers fail to last over 5 years given the rigours involved in the contemporary structure of the sport. Some depart within the fighting distance of 10 years.
\nKapp seems plum as a newborn green apple, waiting to be relished. When she takes a scalp, cricket goes on to prove that it\u2019s as much a bowlers\u2019 game as it is that of the batswomen.
\nAnd in this incredible tension and constant juggling between different formats and an unabashed string of non-stop action rests the next adventure for Kapp.
\nMay she prolong as the constant breeze flowing over the Algoa Bay in her native Port Elizabeth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"