“I’m so blessed to have the opportunity to play cricket again. Like my sobriety, I take my cricket one day at a time,” she said on Friday.
Jafta, speaks with great clarity about her difficult past. From nearly quitting sport, now she is cajoling teammates, sharing laughs and tips with bowlers and helping them set the right fields.
She’s embraced that responsibility with enthusiasm and played a vital role in aiding South Africa to their runners-up finish at the last World Cup, and this year putting them on the cusp of the semifinals.
Though Bangladesh have struggled in the tournament, only beating first-time qualifiers Scotland so far, the Proteas will be keenly aware of the threat they pose.
South Africa have lost only two of the 14 T20 Internationals they have played against Bangladesh, but the second of those was quite recent — in Benoni last December — so even a hint of complacency should be absent.