South Africa Women’s World Cup cricketer dies in double tragedy

All-rounder Theunissen-Fourie, 25, represented South Africa in 4 internationals — 3 ODIs and one Twenty20 — and was partial of a 2013 World Cup squad.

South Africa Women's World Cup cricketer dies in double tragedy

Former South Africa Women’s World Cup cricketer Elriesa Theunissen-Fourie and her child were killed in a automobile pile-up this weekend, military confirmed.

The deadly collision occurred in a northwestern mining city of Stilfontein, a military orator told AFP.

All-rounder Theunissen-Fourie, 25, represented South Africa in 4 internationals — 3 ODIs and one Twenty20 — and was partial of a 2013 World Cup squad.

“This is a awful tragedy in a loyal clarity of that word,” pronounced Cricket South Africa (CSA) arch executive Thabang Moroe.

“This is harmful news for all of us.

“Elriesa did so most for a village in that she lived and gave glorious use both as a inhabitant actor and in a work she did during a grassroots level.

“On interest of a CSA family, we extend a deepest magnetism to her husband, her family, friends and all her cricketing colleagues.

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