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Marizanne Kapp
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“It's obviously good to up my team into the finals. It's always nice contributing and taking wickets with the new ball.”
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“I feel like it's so important in the T20 format, especially in these leagues, because the top order is so heavy with internationals, especially, and big hits.”
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“So I feel like something that's needed in T20 cricket is wickets, early wickets.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“It was more a mindset change knowing that I've put in the work even though it's not as much as it used to be when I was younger because, like I said, now it's more important for me to be fresh knowing I've done that work, not only now but for the last 15 years.”
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“Yes and no. I feel every single wicket we've played on has been so different. Even today, I still don't know if it's better when you win the toss you bowl first or bat first because the wickets have really been so different.”
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“The last game, there was probably a little bit more bounce and movement, yes, but I still felt like it was slow.”
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“And the other day, it was extremely flat and nothing in it for pace bowlers or even spinners. You don't know what to expect.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“But if they do those things and I stick to what I do best, usually it works out.”
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“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.”
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“I feel like it's again a little difficult being an allrounder because it seems when the batting picks up, you lose a bit of the bowling, and vice versa.”
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“So I felt like I was probably just leaning back a little bit in the crease while I was bowling the last couple of months and I started slinging a bit more and bowling from lower down.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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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.”
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“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.”
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“It's more little things but in general the girls are quite good with their plans and what they want to do out in the middle.”
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“When I started my career, I batted higher up for South Africa in any case. So that's something that comes to me a little bit easier.”
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“In the last couple of years, I've just tried to work on finishing games or being there at the back end.”
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“So I don't think it changes too much whether you're batting a bit higher up or lower down.”
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“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”
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“If you look at my stats and where I've probably batted, when I played most of those matches… me, personally, I don't look too much into those stats because if you look at the amount of T20s I've played for South Africa in the last five years, it's actually not been a lot.”
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“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.”
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“If you look at the leagues and South Africa the last two years, I feel like my strike rate is even higher than 120.”
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“I feel it's me as a player being a little bit older now, playing more in these leagues and understanding what is needed.”
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“I feel like I've always had the shots and the power, it's just believing in my skill a little bit more.”
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“I've said it previously, especially when it comes to her being a [former South Africa] captain as well.”
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“What fields I would want or a lot of times I'll ask her, 'what field do you think I need for this batter or if they do this, what do I do then, where do I look to score?' Yeah, that really helps a lot because obviously Dane has a massive knowledge about cricket and she understands the game so well.”
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“Again, in saying that, sometimes as well when I enter the room, I just don't want to speak about cricket. So every now and then I have to tell her, 'okay, enough today'.”
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“For me personally, it's just the amount of years I've spent in international cricket and the leagues I've played in.”
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“For me, it's more about the confidence I have in my own skill, what I want to do and obviously I love representing my country and doing well and helping them win.”
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“So that has always been my main goal and my main focus.”
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“I think if you not only look at the South African coaching set-up but you get different coaches in all these leagues and everyone gives their input and you see how they do things… as a player, there's a fine line [when it comes to] allowing people to just change things in your game, but I feel like there's definitely value in working with different coaches and seeing how they do things.”
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“I always say that you have to use the leagues and coaches as you use what you think will work for you; and things that you feel is not going to work, or won't make an impact, you just push to one side, because I feel like as an international cricketer and especially in the women's game, there's a lot of info coming in and you can't always take everything on board.”
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“So you have to be very careful with who and what you listen to and what you try and implement in your own game.”
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Recorded in: Marizanne Kapp: 'I try to keep it simple. If I stick to what I do best, usually it works out',March 2024, Cricinfo by Vishal Dikshit