Who is Dane van Niekerk's wife? Know everything about her

Former South Africa captain Dane van Niekerk is married to her former South Africa teammate Marizanne Kapp. In July 2018, they both got married. However, Dane van Niekerk was born on 14th May 1993 in Pretoria. She played for South Africa across formats between 2009 and 2021 where she captained the team between 2016 and 2021. However, she was the first bowler for South Africa to scalp 100 wickets in ODIs as well. On 16 March 2023, she announced her retirement from international cricket also. In 2015, she featured in the inaugural season of the Australian Women’s Big Bash League where she played for the Melbourne Renegades.

Notably, in November 2018, she was named to the Sydney Sixers’ squad for the 2018–19 Women’s Big Bash League season as well. However, in 2021, she was drafted by Oval Invincibles for the inaugural season of The Hundred where she finished as the highest run-scorer in the women’s Hundred tournament with 259 runs as well. In April 2022, Oval Invincibles signed her for the 2022 season of The Hundred as well. She also featured in the inaugural season of the Women’s Premier League in 2023, where Royal Challengers Bangalore bought her for 30 Lakhs as well.

In her international career, she was included in the South Africa national women’s cricket team for the 2009 Women’s Cricket World Cup in Australia as well. She also played in the 2013 Women’s Cricket World Cup, the Women’s World Twenty20 in 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016. In January 2013, she became the first South African woman player to pick up an international hat-trick, finishing with 5/28 in an ODI match against the West Indies. In January 2014 against Pakistan, she claimed her second ODI five-wicket haul with 5/17. With this, she became the first South African woman cricketer to achieve two five-wicket hauls in ODIs as well.

However, on 21 June 2016, she was named South Africa’s captain across formats after Mignon du Preez’s decision to step down as captain as well. In February 2017, during the 2017 Women’s Cricket World Cup Qualifier, she became the only seventh player to score 1,000 runs and take 100 wickets in ODIs as well. She also became the first-ever bowler (male or female) to take four wickets in international cricket history without giving away a single run as well. However, in February 2019, she also became the only fourth player in South Africa Woman to score 2,000 runs in ODIs and also became the fourth woman to achieve the double of reaching 2,000 runs and taking 100 wickets in ODIs as well.

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Who is Dane van Niekerk’s wife?

Dane van Niekerk is married to her former South Africa teammate Marizanne Kapp. In July 2018, they both got married. They announced their wedding to everyone via an Instagram post. The ceremony was a low-key, private affair attended by a few of their fellow South African teammates, including Lizelle Lee and Chloe Tryon as well.

Does Dane van Niekerk have any children?

No, she doesn’t have any children now.

All you need to know about her wife

Dane van Niekerk is married to her former South Africa teammate Marizanne Kapp. The pair got married in July 2018. Both Kapp and Dane van Niekerk made their South Africa debuts way back in 2009 and shared the dressing room together for over a decade as well. They became close while playing and fell in love, and later on, they decided to get married in 2018 as well.