Shania-Lee is in top form watch out SA

It could just be a record, Shania-Lee’s 160* in 86 balls could just be a milestone set for future cricketers to strive to achieve.

During the National Week Shania-Lee kicked up quite a storm by being the top run scorer for the week, she walloped a whopping 640 runs in the eight games, including the SA game and claimed over 15 wickets.

Shania-Lee alongside her dad Baltus during her Super Sport interview held at the Mpumalanga Titans Club.

In her 50 over match against South West District she scored 289 runs from 182 balls hitting forty-four 4’s and seven 6’s. To add to that in her T20 match against Eastern Gauteng she scored 160* (not out) off 86 balls hitting eighteen 4’s and twelve 6’s.

“I opted to rotate the strike at the end of each over so I would be facing most of the balls,” she said – a clever strategy used to hold down a wicket.

2016 was definitely a good year for her in that she was selected to play for the u.19 SA cricket schools team among other great achievements.

“She also plays for the Mpumalanga Ladies Cricket team and has been the captain for three years now. I think she is a good leader and she showed her team to never give up,” said her mom, Mina Swart.

On January 10 she was interviewed by Super Sport presenter Fiso Mazimbuko and his crew at the Titans Cricket Club.
She explains how she has a love for sports and played provincially in hockey and went to SA’s for athletics.

“My dad did a lot of sport so it’s always been in the family, my brothers also play,” she said.

Her dad, Baltus used to play club cricket for South African Coal Estates and had two Vamp Cricket bats which saw many runs, fours and sixes, and since has passed the bats down to his daughter.

“She uses one to practice with and the other for matches, the bats are over 25-years-old,” said Baltus.

Shania-Lee went on to explain that her love for cricket started when she played it with her brothers, it all started in the back yard,

“We always had fun and there was little friction between us, although we are all competitive,” she said.

And it didn’t stop there as she took to the sports fields of her primary and secondary schools, Laerskool Kragbron and Hoër Tegniese Skool – breaking records and setting a new standard in just about every sport.

Shania-Lee aims to be a genuine all rounder in her sports and has yet to decide if her calling is the cricket bat or that of the hockey stick

“I want to play one of the two sports for South Africa,” she said proudly as the interview concluded.