Chamari Atapattu created a record
Womens Asia Cup T20 2024 Chamari Atapattu: Currently, the Women’s Asia Cup is being played in Sri Lanka. A total of 8 teams are participating in it. Under the captaincy of Harmanpreet Kaur, the Indian women’s team has won two matches so far and is leading in its group. The team’s entry into the semi-finals seems certain. Meanwhile, Sri Lanka’s captain Chamari Atapattu has created a new record in the Asia Cup. What had not been done in this tournament till now, Chamari has done it. Sri Lanka is playing against Malaysia today, in which Atapattu has done this feat.
Sri Lankan captain Chamari Atapattu hit 7 sixes in the innings
Sri Lankan women’s team captain Chamari Atapattu hit 7 sixes during her innings against Malaysia in the Asia Cup 2024 today. Earlier, no female player had hit so many sixes in an Asia Cup match. Talking about the past, a maximum of 3 sixes have been hit in an innings of this tournament. India’s Shefali Verma hit 3 sixes against Malaysia in the 2022 Asia Cup. India’s Richa Ghosh hit three sixes against Pakistan in the 2022 Asia Cup. Pakistan’s Alia Riaz hit three sixes against UAE in the 2022 Asia Cup. India’s Smriti Mandhana also managed to hit three sixes against Sri Lanka in the 2022 Asia Cup. But now leaving everyone behind, Chamari Atapattu has hit 7 sixes, that is, one more than twice the other players.
She became the first player to score a century in Women’s T20 Asia Cup
Not only this, Chamari Atapattu has become the first player in the world to score a century in the Asia Cup played in T20 format. Before this, no female player had scored a century in the T20 Asia Cup. Atapattu played an innings of 119 runs in 69 balls. In this, she hit 14 fours and 7 sky-high sixes. Her strike rate was 172.46. The interesting thing is that while Chamari scored a century, no other batsman of the team could even score a half-century. The second highest score was 31 runs, which was made by wicketkeeper batsman Anushka Sanjeevani. It was only due to Chamari’s innings that Sri Lanka scored 184 runs for the loss of 4 wickets in 20 overs against Malaysia.
Asia Cup 2024 Points Table
If we talk about the points table of Asia Cup 2024, then the Indian team is leading by winning two consecutive matches and taking four points. At the same time, Pakistan and Nepal have won one match each. Pakistan is at second place and Nepal is at third place. At the same time, Thailand’s team is at the top in Group B with two points. Sri Lanka has also won two points by winning one match. If the Sri Lankan team wins today’s match as well, then it will have four points and the team will be able to reach the top in its group.
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