SL-W vs MAL-W Chamari Athapaththu Hundred: Women’s T20 Asia Cup 2024 is currently going on in Sri Lanka. The 7th match of this tournament became quite historic. This match was played between Sri Lanka and Malaysia. Sri Lanka won this match by a big margin. But what became a topic of discussion even more than this was the first century of the T20 Women’s Asia Cup, which was scored by Sri Lankan player Chamari Atapattu.
Atapattu scores the first century of T20 Women’s Asia Cup
Chamari Atapattu played a brilliant innings against Malaysia at the Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium. Coming in to bat first, the Sri Lankan team suffered an early setback when Vishmi Gunaratne was out early. After this, captain Atapattu took charge of the field and shared a 64-run partnership with Harshita Samarawickrama. Later, she shared a brilliant partnership of 115 runs with Anushka Sanjeevani.
Chamari Atapattu completed her half-century in 35 balls and paved the way for her team to post a strong score. After the 18th over, she batted aggressively, especially hitting a four and two sixes off Anna Hamiza Hashim. After this, she started the 19th over with a four and then dominated Aisha Elisa by hitting two sixes.
In the last over, Chamari Atapattu completed her century in 63 balls. She sealed the historic moment by hitting a long six off Winfried Duraisingam. Thanks to her brilliant innings, Sri Lanka posted a strong score of 184/4 in the stipulated 20 overs.
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Atapattu has three international centuries to his name
Against Malaysia, Chamari Atapattu scored an unbeaten 119 off 69 balls at a strike rate of 172.46, which included 14 fours and 7 sixes. This is Atapattu’s third T20 International century. So far, she has scored 3153 runs in 136 matches at an average of 24.44. Her last two centuries came against Australia and Scotland. Atapattu is currently at the seventh position in the list of highest run scorers in women’s T20 International after Suzie Bates, Harmanpreet Kaur, Meg Lanning, Smriti Mandhana, Stephanie Taylor and Sophie Devine.
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