Macheke is eager to get her chance to shine

Promising 25-year-old wicket-keeper batter from the Titans, Tebogo Macheke (below), will hope to get a chance to show what she can do when the Proteas women's team take on their Indian counterparts in a five-match T20 series starting this evening.

- Jacques van der Westhuyzen

Macheke gets her chance because backup keeper Karabo Meso is out with a wrist injury.

Macheke has been part of Proteas training camps before, and also played for the SA Emerging side, but this is her first involvement in proper tier one international cricket.

Though she will serve as the backup to first-choice keeper Sinalo Jafta over the coming series, she will hope to get a game somewhere.

Macheke said this week she couldn't quite believe she had won a call-up to the Protea side.