By Sam Dalling

The first Nadine de Klerk’s teammates at The Blaze saw of her this summer, she was napping on a sofa in an Edgbaston changing room.
48-hours earlier, de Klerk had been on South Africa duty, almost 10,000 km away. “My visa literally came the day I had to fly,” she explains through laughter. “That was a bit of chaos.”
Chaotic? Yes. Unique? No. De Klerk’s calendar is a continually shifting matrix. Her winter included trips to Pakistan and a WPL stint with Royal Challengers Bangalore and a home international summer filled the gaps. “I haven’t unpacked my bag for the last seven o...