"In provincial cricket back home I had to pick a shirt number and I needed to be fast with it. I first wanted seven because I think I saw Kappie wearing it and she was my hero," Dercksen told this daily before the World Cup.
"They said no sorry seven is taken and then I wanted 17 because of AB de Villiers and then they said no sorry 17 is taken. I continued like that for a while but like all the shirts I wanted were taken and then I was like 77 can work and that one was available." So much was the admiration for Kapp that she looks at her jersey number as a double tribute to Kapp.
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