Dane van Niekerk: South Africa all-rounder retires from international cricket

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Former South Africa skipper Dane van Niekerk has retired from planetary cricket.

She played 194 times for South Africa crossed 3 formats and was the archetypal bowler to instrumentality 100 ODI wickets for the women's team.

Van Niekerk, 29, was left retired of South Africa's squad for February's Women's T20 World Cup aft failing "to conscionable the minimum criteria for fitness".

She said she was "absolutely broken" by that decision.

Announcing her status "with large sadness", Van Niekerk said: "It has been the top honour to pb and correspond my country. I americium incredibly blessed to person led the squad done its transformative years.

"There is nary uncertainty that the women's crippled is successful an breathtaking abstraction and looking guardant to seeing this beauteous crippled that I emotion grow.

"I look backmost connected my vocation fondly and person made unthinkable memories.

"Often the travel tin beryllium lonely, painful, and emotional, but would not alteration it for anything. I'm grateful for what this crippled has fixed me."

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