Tazmin Brits Explains Her Bow And Arrow Celebration Vs NZ: 'It Was For...'

South Africa’s superstar opener, Tazmin Brits, brought out a unique bow-and-arrow celebration to commemorate her seventh ODI century against New Zealand in the 2025 World Cup on Monday. After stealing an easy single on the third ball of the 31st over to reach the milestone in only 88 deliveries, she sat down and mimed bringing out an arrow from her quiver and firing it into the crowd with an imaginary bow.

This gesture has been used previously in other sports, like UFC and football, but cricket, being a celebration-shy sport, made it quite fascinating. But for Brits, celebrations like this that give a lift to the fans and the sport itself aren’t new. She’s known to do a ‘ballerina’ gesture when celebrating half-centuries as a tribute to her late

father, who passed away during the pandemic. It represents her as his “little girl”.

The bow-and-arrow one had an equally wholesome story behind it, with the idea originating from a couple of South African fans.

“Sinalo (Jafta, the team’s wicketkeeper) actually interviewed us and asked what celebrations were next, and I actually put it out to the fans. I said, ‘Give me your celebrations, because the 50 will only remain for my dad’. And then I had these two young girls, they’re 13 years old. One stays in Australia, one stays in South Africa. But they come from South Africa, and they asked me to do their celebration. So, yeah, that celebration was for them,” Brits said after South Africa sealed a six-wicket win over New Zealand, and she was awarded the Player of the Match.

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With the knock, Brits broke multiple records. One was becoming the quickest in the world (in terms of innings) to seven ODI tons, beating the legendary Meg Lanning.

“Funny enough, I’m not one for records, but when you mention Meg Lanning, I’m glad I’m above that one. As long as we are winning the games, then I’m all good,” she added at the post-match presentation ceremony.

The record is more stunning when you consider Brits didn’t even cross 50 in her first 19 innings, scoring 360 runs at an average of around 18. Since then, she has crossed over a thousand runs in 22 innings at an average of 58. This was her fourth ton in the last five innings.

“I don’t actually know, I’m just backing myself a bit more. I’m trying to be as positive as I can. We actually had a lot of batting camps, I think that definitely helped. I’m trying to expand my batting a bit more and not to be one-dimensional,” she said, before adding about the innings, “I just said I’m going to be as positive as possible, we needed this win, just get out, middle of all the balls. It’s actually funny, it was a new bat. I haven’t used it once. I think that’s going to be the lucky bat from now on.”