Apart from the bat and ball, this star player of the Sri Lanka Women’s Cricket Team also made a tremendous contribution to the fielding and got the team off to a great start by running out a batsman.
The ODI series between Pakistan and Sri Lanka is over. In the three-match series, Pakistan’s women’s team captured the first two matches with a resounding victory. In such a situation, in the last match, Sri Lanka had to play only for its honor, so that the series could be avoided from getting cleaned up. The Sri Lankan team also got success in this and it happened on the basis of that one player, who after playing a tremendous innings showed his skills in bowling and gave a big victory to the team while giving a blow to Pakistan. This player is none other than Chamari Atapattu, Sri Lanka’s best cricketer.
The tour of Pakistan was not good for Sri Lanka and the team had to face defeat in the first two matches, but the team ended the tour in a spectacular manner and defeated Pakistan by a huge margin of 93 runs. Veteran batsman and captain Chamari Atapattu was the star of this team’s victory. Batting first, Sri Lanka scored a strong score of 260 runs on the basis of his century.
In the last ODI match held in Karachi on Sunday, June 5, Sri Lanka batted first and two wickets fell for just 4 runs. In such a situation, Captain Atapattu took the responsibility and pulled the team out of the difficult situation. During this, he completed his sixth century in just 82 balls with the help of 13 fours and 1 six. She got out in the 31st over and scored 101 runs in 85 balls. Apart from him, no batsman has been able to score a century for Sri Lanka till date. In this innings, apart from Atapattu, Harshita Madvi also played an important innings of 75 runs and added 152 runs together.
After showing amazing with the bat, the Sri Lankan captain also took responsibility with the ball. Atapattu gave the biggest blow to Pakistan with his off-spin bowling. Sidra Amin, who scored a tremendous century in the last match, became the first victim of Atapattu. After this, he returned Pakistan’s most experienced player, star all-rounder Nida Dar to the pavilion. These shocks did not give Pakistan a chance to recover and the entire team was bundled out for just 167 runs. Atapattu spent only 20 runs in 6 overs and took 2 wickets. He also did a run out as well.
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