Cri-Zelda Brits

Quick Facts

Full Name	Cri-Zelda Brits
Occupation	Cricketer
Date Of Birth	Nov 20, 1983(1983-11-20)
Age	41
Birthplace	Rustenburg
Country	South Africa
Birth City	North West
Horoscope	Scorpio

Cri-Zelda Brits Biography

Cri-Zelda Brits is one of the most popular and richest Cricketer who was born on November 20, 1983 in Rustenburg, North West, South Africa. She is among South Africa women’s most prolific batsmen. She is one of the very first South African woman to have hit a half-century during the course of a Twenty20 International, and one of just six women who score a century for South Africa in a One Day International (ODI). She is the top South African run-scorer in ODI with 1622 runs.

She was a part-time player as a player for South Africa during their 2003 tour to England. In three warm-up games of 50 overs, Brits claimed four wickets and scored 33 runs playing bowling and bat in the tail. In the first Test, Brits showed her ability when she batted and scored 32 runs in the 59-run duo with her fellow of the tail Sune van Zyl. She took two wickets during England’s response, and claimed her wickets from the opener Charlotte Edwards and captain Clare Connor. In the subsequent ODIs she took three wickets, including all of them in the second match, when England took the series 1-1. In the absence of a bat in the single victory for South Africa and she was a duck in the two other games. She made a string of ducks in the first innings during the second test, and fell one leg in front of wicket (lbw) in front of eight deliveries. But, after taking the two English wickets Brits were the top scorer in the favour of South Africa in the second innings taking 61 off 67 deliveries with 13 fours. However, despite this performance, South Africa lost the game by one innings and 96 runs.

Brits was named as part of the South African squad to compete in the 2005 Women’s Cricket World Cup. Prior to the tournament, South Africa played two ODIs against England. Brits opened the innings alongside Terblanche in both matches, as she would continue to do throughout the World Cup, and made scores of 23 and 11. She enjoyed more success during the tournament itself, finishing as South Africa’s leading run-scorer with 206 runs, 92 more than her closest compatriot, Shandre Fritz. Her five wickets ranked her second among South African women behind Alicia Smith. During South Africa’s second round-robin match, against the West Indies women, Brits made both her highest score of the tournament, making 72, and her best bowling analysis, taking four wickets. She received the man of the match award for her achievement, as South Africa won the match by one run. Though she did not make any further half-centuries during the tournament, she was twice dismissed in the forties, scoring 49 against Australia women and 46 against England women.

An injury to Fritz, who had been selected as South African captain for the home series against Pakistan in 2006–07, saw Brits named as her replacement eight days before the first ODI. South Africa women won the first match of the series by 98 runs, with Brits scoring 39 runs from 42 balls, including 6 fours, in “an attractive cameo”. She top-scored for South Africa in the second and third matches with half-centuries, helping to secure the series victory. South Africa eventually won the series 4–0, and Brits was named as player of the series, having scored 183 runs and captained South Africa to their first series win since beating India women in 2002. Brits was subsequently named as captain of the African women side to compete in a Twenty20 match against an Asian women XI during the 2007 Afro-Asia Cup. The side, which contained four South Africans, lost by 60 runs. Brits was one of ten African players to be dismissed with a single-figure score, and five members of the team were dismissed for ducks.

The South African summer of 2003-04, England women toured South Africa and played five ODIs. In the opening match, Brits claimed three wickets when England were limited to 151, which was a total South Africa passed with the last ball of 50 overs. Brits did not take wickets for the following two games which were both England wins, but she took another three wickets during the fourth game during the match. Despite her wickets England gave South Africa a total of 242 for them to chase. Brits was elevated in the batting order, to start the innings along with Terblanche. The strategy failed: South Africa needed to achieve almost five runs in an innings to prevail in the game but when Brits was exiled in the fourteenth over for 20 runs, the team had scored only 38 runs, which is roughly two and a quarter runs in an over. South Africa finished on 142/9 which was more than a hundred runs less than their goal. For the season of 2004, Brits joined Kent women participating in every one of their five women’s county championship matches. Brits won the tournament with eight wickets. She also had four wickets with Yorkshire at the end of her game.

Cri-Zelda Brits Net Worth

Cri-Zelda Brits is one of the richest Cricketer from South Africa. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Cri-Zelda Brits 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Cri-Zelda BRITS (/k r in ‘ z E l d Cri-Zelda Brits (/k r i:’z ) Also known as Crizelda Brits or Cri-zelda (born on 20th November, 1983) is an South African cricketer. A right-handed batsman and a medium-fast bowler Brits was initially invited to join the South Africa national women’s cricket team as an opening bowler in 2002. She progressed into an all-rounder and has since 2005 made herself an elite batsman. She played for South Africa in 23 matches in 2007 and 2008. She was captain in 2008 and 2007 however, she was reappointed captain in 2009 to “concentrate entirely on her own performance.” She was appointed captain in 2010 for the ICC Women’s World Twenty20. From 2007 to 2011,, she was captain of South Africa a total of 36 times (1 Test and 23 One Day Internationals, and 12 Twenty20 Internationals).

Born from Rustenburg, Transvaal, Brits started her cricket career at age 11 when she started the sport in the boys teams. At 14 Brits had two appearances with the South Africa Under-21s women against the touring England team in 1998, acting as wicketkeepers in two 50-over games. In the first match, which was which was a win of eight runs in the favor of South Africa, she claimed the stumping and caught but did not have to bat. In the second game she was moved to the top of the order, moving from eight to number 5 and produced 14 runs in 13 balls. South Africa lost by 42 runs.

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. 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. 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. 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.

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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 Sunette Loubser would replace Brits as captain of the national team. Denise Reid, the convenor of selectors, stated that the change had been made in order for Brits to “concentrate entirely on her own performance” as “[South Africa] require her undivided attention at the role assigned to her”. During her time as captain, Brits had averaged 32.07 with the bat, however twelve of her sixteen matches were against Ireland, Pakistan and Netherlands women, both teams that South Africa had beaten easily in the World Cup Qualifying Series; against the more competitive England side, she had averaged a much lower 8.75 with the bat. Brits made modest totals in the two warm-up matches against India and Pakistan, but averaged 33.00 in the World Cup matches, second among the South African team behind Trisha Chetty. After scoring 7 against the West Indies in their first match, she made 36 against reigning World Champions Australia. South Africa finished the group- stage winless when they suffered a 199 run defeat to New Zealand in the final group match; chasing 250, South Africa only managed to make 51, with Brits’ score of 25 making her the only South African to make it into double figures. Brits remained 31 not out in the seventh place play-off as South Africa successfully chased down the Sri Lankan score of 75 with over 20 overs to spare.

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Four years later, Brits made her full international debut in a One Day International against India women. Brits was selected as a bowler, placed at number nine in the batting order, and opening the bowling for South Africa. The match was first shortened and then abandoned, and Brits only bowled two overs, conceding two runs, before the conclusion. Brits retained this role in the second ODI, claiming two wickets as South Africa won by 29 runs using the Duckworth–Lewis method. She claimed three further wickets in the final two ODIs of the series. In the fourth ODI, she was promoted up the batting order to number five, though she only managed to score ten runs as South Africa failed to chase down an Indian total of 160. At the conclusion of the ODI series, the two sides played a Test match, with Brits reprising her role as opening bowler. She took two wickets and conceded 91 runs (2/91) as India amassed 404/9 declared in their first-innings. Despite her move up the batting order in the shorter format of the game, Brits batted as part of the tail during the Test match, scoring nine runs at number eleven in the first-innings and then as South Africa were forced to follow-on, she made eleven runs from number ten in the second-innings.