Van Niekerk, who won the Women’s Cricketer of the Year award in 2018, has once again been nominated for the same award alongside Kapp. Both players have also been nominated for T20 International Player of the Year, ODI Player of the Year and Players' Player of the Year.
Lizelle Lee, Laura Wolvaardt and Shabnim Ismail are the other two players to have earned nominations for awards this time around. Ismail has been nominated for Women's T20 International Player of the Year, while Wolvaardt has been nominated for the Women’s ODI Player of the year. Lee, on the other hand, has been recognised in three categories: CSA Women's Cricketer of the Year, Women's ODI Player of the Year and Women's Players' Player of the Year.
The event to honour the country’s best performing players, the CSA Awards, will take place on Saturday evening, 3 August 2019, at the Sun Square Arena in Pretoria. The judging panel, consisting of Jeremy Fredericks— who acts as the convenor- Crystal Arnold, Makhaya Ntini, Clinton du Preez, Lungani Zama and Natalie Germanos with statistical input by Andrew Samson, will decide the winners.
List of nominations:
WOMEN'S T20 INTERNATIONAL CRICKETER OF THE YEARShabnim Ismail
Marizanne Kapp
Dane van Niekerk
WOMEN'S ODI CRICKETER OF THE YEARMarizanne Kapp
Lizelle Lee
Dane van Niekerk
Laura Wolvaardt
CSA WOMEN'S PLAYERS' PLAYER OF THE YEARMarizanne Kapp
Lizelle Lee
Dane van Niekerk
CSA WOMEN'S CRICKETER OF THE YEARMarizanne Kapp
Lizelle Lee
Dane van Niekerk