Tazmin Brits’ life has had some strange turns. Stranger than most people’s lives. She won the javelin gold at the 2007 World Youth Championships in Athletics and went on to establish herself as one of the world’s most promising throwers. Her eyes were set on the London Olympics of 2012. A terrible car crash dashed those dreams. She was lucky to survive. But she fought back. With more grit than most people.

Cricket gave Brits a second innings in life, even if she could not quite cement her position in the South African team for years. She contemplated quitting. But, early this month, the 34-year-old became the first woman in history to hit five ODI hundreds in a calendar year. That fifth hundred came in the ongoing World Cup, in which South Africa has advanced to the semifinals. Excerpts f

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