Kapp warns Heat Sixers have lots of weapons
Ellyse Perry and Alyssa Healy deserve all the accolades they are getting but Sydney Sixers strike bowler Marizanne Kapp has reminded the Brisbane Heat there are plenty more weapons in the team
Ellyse Perry and Alyssa Healy may be the most dominant players in the WBBL this season but there’s a lot more to the Sydney Sixers than their two World Cup superstars.
That’s the warning for the Brisbane Heat ahead of Saturday’s WBBL grand final, from Marizanne Kapp, the Sixers’ main strike bowler.
The South African has captured 19 wickets this season and while she agrees Perry and Healy deserve all the accolades they’re receiving, Kapp says the real strength of the Sixers is that they have so many potential match winners.
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“The team wouldn’t have come this far if we were just one or two players, it’s a team effort,” Kapp told The Daily Telegraph.
“You always need someone to bat with you or field for you when you’re bowling so it’s a complete team effort and that’s why over the past few years we’ve been so successful because we’ve always had 14,15 players and the management putting so much into this team.”
Perry has been in phenomenal form this season, scoring 744 runs, while Healy has belted 427 runs and has the most dismissals by a wicketkeeper (17) but there have been plenty of other big performers.
Ashleigh Gardner has clubbed 15 sixes, Dane Van Niekerk has bagged 17 wickets and Kapp has the best economy rate of any bowler in the competition (5.86).
“I know people say a lot of times that only a few people score or these people take wickets but it’s not other players’ faults that someone scores every single games or someone takes wickets every single game,” Kapp said.
“You back them and if you’re not doing anything on the day, you’re still going to back the person next to you. It actually just makes your job a bit easier.”
Kapp said there was better illustration of the Sixers’ all-round talents than with the amazing last ball run out in last weekend’s semi-final win over the Melbourne Renegades that has become the defining moment of the whole season.
Erin Burns, Sarah Aley and Healy each produced a magical piece of fielding to complete the run out which has been trending on social media all week, to trigger the super over which the Sixers won to qualify for the final for the fourth season in a row,
“The reaction to that has been amazing but it puts a bit of pressure on you because everyone’s watching and expecting the same this weekend,” Kapp said.
“There’s a lot more people coming out to watch us and that’s how we grow the game.”
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