Proteas Women's captain Laura Wolvaardt is thrilled to welcome back retired legends Shabnim Ismail and Dané van Niekerk ahead of the ICC T20 World Cup in the UK. Photo: Backpagepix
Proteas Women’s captain Laura Wolvaardt believes her team has just the right amount of youth and experience to go all the way at next month’s ICC T20 Women’s World Cup in the UK.
Veteran fast bowler Shabnim Ismail and former captain Dané van Niekerk have both come out of retirement recently and will join a squad that has reached the last three major ICC tournament finals – including successive ICC T20 Women’s World Cup finals.
After spending some time in the wild getting reacquainted, Wolvaardt is hoping that the duo’s combined experience of 204 T20 Internationals, along with the exuberance of youngsters Kayla Reyneke and Karabo Meso, will be the formula to take the Proteas to the promised land at the third attempt.
Team Bonding With A Wild Side! 🦁🌿#TheProteas swapped the cricket field for the bush as the team enjoyed a game drive experience together. 🇿🇦🙌
