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Full name | Masabata Marie Klaas | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Botshabelo, Free State, South Africa | 3 February 1991|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Bowler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Only Test(cap 69) | 15 February 2024 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI debut(cap 58) | 6 October 2010 v Sri Lanka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | 8 September 2023 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI shirt no. | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
T20I debut(cap 25) | 14 October 2010 v Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last T20I | 1 September 2023 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2006/07–2016/17 | Free State | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2017/18–2022/23 | North West | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2023/24–present | Northerns | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:ESPNcricinfo,25 January 2023 |
Masabata Marie Klaas (alternatively Mazabatha Klaas,born 3 February 1991) is a South African cricketer who plays as a right-arm medium bowler. She made her debut for South Africa in 2010. [1] [2]
In March 2018,she was one of fourteen players to be awarded a national contract by Cricket South Africa ahead of the 2018–19 season. [3] In October 2018,she was named in South Africa's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies. [4] [5]
In May 2019,in the second WODI against Pakistan,Klass became the tenth bowler to take a hat-trick in a WODI match. [6]
In September 2019,she was named in the Terblanche XI squad for the inaugural edition of the Women's T20 Super League in South Africa. [7] [8] In January 2020,she was named in South Africa's squad for the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup in Australia. [9] On 23 July 2020,Klaas was named in South Africa's 24-woman squad to begin training in Pretoria,ahead of their tour to England. [10]
In February 2022,she was named in South Africa's team for the 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand. [11] In July 2022,she was named in South Africa's team for the cricket tournament at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham,England. [12]
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