Cri-Zelda Brits
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Full name | Cri-Zelda Brits | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Rustenburg, Transvaal, South Africa | 20 November 1983|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | Gris | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium-fast | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Batter | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Test debut (cap 27) | 19 March 2002 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 28 July 2007 v Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI debut (cap 31) | 7 March 2002 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | 15 February 2013 v Sri Lanka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI shirt no. | 18 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
T20I debut (cap 2) | 10 August 2007 v New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last T20I | 20 January 2013 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2003/04 | Western Province | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2004 | Kent | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2004/05 | Northerns | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2005/06–2007/08 | North West | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2007/08 | Free State | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2008/09–2015/16 | Gauteng | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 11 April 2021 |
Cri-Zelda Brits (
She is one of South Africa women's most prolific batsmen; being the first South African woman to have scored a half-century in a Twenty20 International.
Career
Early career
Born in
Four years later, Brits made her full international debut in a
England series: 2003, 2003–04
She reprised this role for South Africa during their
In the South African summer of 2003–04, England women toured South Africa, playing five ODIs. In the first match, Brits claimed three wickets as England were restricted to 151, a total South Africa passed with the last ball of the allocated 50 overs.[22] Brits went wicket-less in the next two matches, both England victories, but claimed another three wickets in the fourth match of the series. Despite her wickets, England set South Africa a total of 242 to chase, and Brits was moved up the batting order to open the innings alongside Terblanche. The tactic failed: South Africa needed to score almost five runs an over to win the match, and when Brits was dismissed in the fourteenth over for 20, the pair had only scored 38 runs, roughly two and a half runs an over. South Africa finished on 142/9, over a hundred runs short of their target.[23] For the 2004 season, Brits joined Kent women, playing in all five of their Women's County Championship matches. She finished the competition with eight wickets,[24] including a four-wicket haul against Yorkshire in her final match.[25]
Women's Cricket World Cup in South Africa: 2005
Brits was named as part of the South African squad to compete in the
Despite Brits' relative success in the tournament, the win against the West Indies women was South Africa's only victory, and they finished the group stage in seventh place, meaning that they failed to qualify for the knockout phase. A three match ODI series was hastily arranged against the West Indies women, who had also been eliminated.[30] By this stage, Brits was starting to bowl less frequently. She had opened the bowling in three of South Africa's World Cup fixtures, but did not bowl at all against England women, and was used as the fourth-change bowler against Sri Lanka women, bowling only four overs.[31] Against the West Indies women, Brits bowled two overs in the first match, being used as the first-change bowler, and has only bowled once in ODI cricket since.[32] Her good form with the bat continued against the West Indies women as she passed 50 in two of the three matches, 2004/05 though the West Indies won the series 2–1.[33]
Pakistan series, Afro-Asia Cup: 2006–07, 2007
An injury to Fritz, who had been selected as South African captain for the home series against
European tour: 2007
South Africa began their preparation for the 2008 Women's World Cup Qualifying series with a tour of Europe, beginning with a Test match and an ODI series against
Once in England, South Africa played two 50-over contests against an England Development Squad, each side taking one win apiece, Brits top-scoring in South Africa's victory with 78 runs.
World Cup Qualifying Series: 2007/08
In order to qualify for the 2009 Women's Cricket World Cup in Australia, South Africa had to compete in the qualifying series, which they hosted in Stellenbosch, the event having been postponed and then cancelled in Pakistan due to security concerns.[49] Brits was not required to bat in the first match, a ten-wicket victory over Bermuda in which eight of the Bermudans failed to score a run, and the remaining three were all dismissed for just one apiece.[50] After scoring 17 in the second match, against Papua New Guinea, Brits made her highest score in One Day International cricket in the next match, against Netherlands. Coming in at number three after opener Daleen Terblanche had been dismissed for a duck after five balls of the match, Brits batted through the remainder of the innings and finished on 107 not out.[51] Brits only managed 3 in the victory against Ireland in the semi-finals which guaranteed South Africa a place in the 2009 World Cup,[52] and was dismissed for a duck in the final as South Africa easily overcame Pakistan to win the competition.[53] Brits was named as the 2008 CSA Women's Cricketer of the Year.[54]
United Kingdom tour: 2008
Brits represented Central women during the Pro20 Women's Super4's in 2008, and finished the tournament with 103 runs, trailing only Highveld's Mignon du Preez, who scored the competition's only half-century.[55] Upon the completion of the competition, the national team flew over to Ireland to begin their tour of the United Kingdom which started with an ODI just four days later. South Africa enjoyed a comfortable ten-wicket victory in the tour opener, with Brits bowling an expensive two overs, conceding 17 runs including eight wides.[56] She had not bowled in international cricket since 2005, and has not again since. After making 13 in the Twenty20 match against the Irish,[57] Brits fell for successive ducks in a 20-over match against England Academy and the first ODI against England.[58][59] She continued to struggle with the bat in the remaining three ODIs, failing to pass 20 as England eased to a 4–0 series win.[60] She dropped down the order for the Twenty20 matches, batting at five and six, but after remaining 20 not out at the close of play in the first match,[61] she was dismissed for 2 in both the following games.
Cricket World Cup, World Twenty20: 2009
Following their successful qualifying campaign, South Africa were one of eight women's teams represented in the 2009 Women's Cricket World Cup. Prior to the tournament, it had been announced that
Brits finished the 2009 ICC Women's World Twenty20 as South Africa's top-scorer with 71 runs.[69] Her half-century against New Zealand in the second match is the highest score by a South African woman in a Twenty20 International, surpassing the record of 38 set only four days earlier by du Preez.[70] Despite her record, South Africa lost to the New Zealanders by 6 wickets, though Brits had the small consolation of being named man of the match.[71] Brits scored seven runs in each of the other matches for South Africa, both defeats, against West Indies and Australia respectively.[72][73]
West Indies series: 2009–10
South Africa and Brits had a point to prove during their 2009–10 series against the West Indies, and were keen to improve on their recent performances. Brits top-scored for the South Africans in the first of four ODIs with 48, but an unbeaten century from West Indies opener Stafanie Taylor helped the tourists to chase down the total and win with 51 balls remaining.[74] Brits made 31 in the second match as South Africa levelled the series,[75] and then scored a match-winning 60 not out in the third match to give South Africa the lead in the series.[76] During this innings, she became only the second South African woman to pass 1,000 career ODI runs.[77] Brits missed the following Twenty20 series with bronchitis.[78]
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External links
- Cri-Zelda Brits at ESPNcricinfo
- Cri-Zelda Brits at CricketArchive (subscription required)