Mpedi's right arm sends her to the top

Friday, November 13, 2020

The future: Mpedi wants to to see herself playing in India PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE

Botsogo Mpedi’s name is often missing when the roll call for the country’s most eminent sport sons and daughters is made. But while the spotlight has shone away from her budding cricket career, Mpedi’s name is etched on the board of cricket’s all-time best bowling in a T20 match. But at just 17, she is still hungry for more, writes MQONDISI DUBE

Her captain, Laura Mophakedi calls her ‘Long Legs’, because of Botsogo Mpedi’s gangly frame.

It is the long legs, together with her devastating right arm that propelled the Mochudi-born Mpedi to the top three of the world’s best bowling figures in a T20 match.

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