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Back-to-back World Cup finals are my career highs, says Nadine de Klerk.

PROTEAS Women's all-rounder, Nadine de Klerk, has described the eight years playing for South Africa as a rollercoaster ride, filled with many lows and highs along the road. De Klerk, 25, made her international debut in 2017, at the tender age of 17, and has mostly been playing international cricket since then. In those eight years, De Klerk has described being dropped from the team as the lowest point in her career. However, having played in two consecutive ICC Women's T20 World Cup finals in the last two years, De Klerk told Independent Media that those two games are the highest highs of her career and that they overshadow all the negatives in her career. "It's crazy to think that it's been eight years; it doesn't even feel that long, but I think it has been a massive rollercoaster. I think I was lucky that I started off quite young and had a bit of time to find my feet and stuff like that. So, there's probably been more lows than highs to be honest," De Klerk told exclusively. "But, I think probably the biggest highlights of my career would be the back-to-back World Cup finals. I think it was just great to be a part of it. I think it's always nice when you're in the team and you kind of contribute and you make a World Cup final. "So I would definitely say that has to be the two highlights of my career are being part of two World Cup finals. "I think probably that not a lot of people expected us to make it to the final, which was even sweeter. There's been plenty of lows, from getting dropped from the side and losing your contract and not performing and all of that. "Everybody kind of goes through that at some stage in their career. So I would say that probably has to be the lowest of the lowest. But I think the positives and the highs probably overshadow all the negatives and all the things that kind of went wrong and the failures along the way. "So, it's been a great eight years, and I hope to be a part of the team for many years to come as well."