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I just want the batters to hit me, says Mlaba

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March 25, 2025

SCROLLING through Proteas Women's star Nonkululeko Mlaba's social media pages locating a cricket post is like finding a needle in a haystack.

- ZAAHIER ADAMS

I just want the batters to hit me, says Mlaba

Instead, it looks more like an influencer’s Instagram with Mlaba posing in urban hip fashionable attire for the most part. And if it’s not that, she’s showing off her technical sponsor in some new gym kit.

It’s therefore no surprise that Mlaba loved the last ICC T20 World Cup in the UAE where she could spend hours in the mega malls of Dubai - the global capital of fashion and designer labels.

“I loved Dubai ... I was doing my things,” Mlaba exclusively told Independent Media.

“I think maybe it was the environment. Or maybe because I was in Dubai. You know, in Dubai I get to meet my friends.

“So, I was training for hours and then I would just go to the mall, you know.

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