Minki is the ultimate date
2006-11-01 21:55
Johannesburg - Cricket fans have named their favourite dream woman - and it's South Africa's own Minki van der Westhuizen.
The well-known model split up recently with SA cricket captain Graeme Smith.
Online cricket game site, Stick Cricket, had a competition for users to find the world's top cricket cuties.
Minki van der Westhuizen beat the opposition with more than one in three Stick Cricket users (30.45%) naming her the world's fittest pavilion pin-up.
Smith 'n' Minki were apparently South Africa's and cricket's answer to Posh 'n' Becks.
"Minki is a cricket fan's dream woman," explains director of Stick Sports, Chris Berry.
"She's sleek, sexy and with a successful career to boot.
"Cricketers attract a finer class of WAG (wives and girlfriends)- (it) is a game for gentlemen going out with goddesses."
Minki van der Westhuizen shot to fame when she started dating Smith.
Her talents and celeb status have seen her grace the covers of FHM and Cosmo, feature in the swimwear edition of Sports Illustrated and land the job of Guess jeans girl.
In second place came Madhi Muralitharan, firmly establishing her as the Indian subcontinent's leading lady.
Kevin Pietersen's girlfriend, Jessica Taylor, the star of pop group Liberty X, was voted the world's fourth fittest cricket cutie.
Girls who were run out of the top five include Georgie Willis (Mrs Simon Katich), Rachel Flintoff (Mrs Andrew Flintoff), Natasha Berridge (Mrs Chris Gayle) and Thandeki Ntini (Mrs Makhaya Ntini).
- News24