Do you love the pressure and the intenseness that it brings? Um, when you were first appointed to be captain, walk us through the emotion of that for you

youUm, I remember when it first happened, I- it was kind of sudden.

Um, it wa- it was something that I thought I'd maybe do one day, um, but it was a little earlier than I expected in my career.

Um, so I had to think about it a little bit if I was sort of ready for the opportunity.

Um, but yeah, then I ended up taking it and had a lot to learn at first, um, 'cause I was just ...

I've always just been a batter growing up and didn't have much captaincy experience, and now I've sort of got the, got to tell the bowlers what I think they should do, and that was, yeah, that was a lot of learning, um, 'cause I've never bowled really in my life.

So that was, that was hard.

Even though you didn't win the trophy, what did that tournament teach you about resilience?

Mm.

So growing up, sort of didn't really know that it existed.

Um, a lot of my friends were boys at school, and they played cricket, so I just played along with them.

I'd no idea we had a Proteas team or that there was any kind of, or other girls that played cricket.

So yeah, the day when I found out there were other girls, I was like, "Whoa." It was like a revelation sort of to see that other girls playing cricket.

Um, and yeah, obviously made my debut pretty young for the Proteas.

There wasn't really, like, a, a pipeline in place like there is now.

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