Chamari Athapaththu turns into first Sri Lankan to prime girls’s ODI rankings
Sri Lanka captain Chamari Athapaththu shot as much as the highest of the ladies’s ODI rankings for batters after her two unbeaten centuries within the sequence in opposition to New Zealand. She has thus change into the primary lady from Sri Lanka to prime the ODI rankings.
Athapaththu climbed six locations to displace Australia’s Beth Mooney because the top-ranked batter within the format. She scored 108 not out in the first ODI in opposition to New Zealand to assist Sri Lanka chase down 172 in a rain-affected sport. After being out for a duck within the second match, which New Zealand went on to win, she blasted a shocking 140 off simply 80 deliveries to assist her workforce seal another rain-hit fixture and the sequence.
The left-hand batter now has eight centuries to go together with her 15 half-centuries in ODIs.
Mooney, Laura Wolvaardt, Nat Sciver-Brunt, Meg Lanning, Harmanpreet Kaur and Smriti Mandhana all dropped one spot every as Athapaththu moved up from seventh place within the rankings.
Athapaththu has now emulated one other left-handed opener, Sanath Jayasuriya, who’s the one Sri Lankan man to prime the ODI batting charts.
During her whirlwind knock within the third ODI, Athapaththu placed on 190 runs for the third wicket with Nilakshi de Silva, which is the very best partnership for Sri Lanka in girls’s ODIs. Her heroics helped Sri Lanka win their first bilateral sequence in opposition to New Zealand.