24/07Result
12th Match, Group B (N), Women's T20 Asia Cup at Dambulla, Jul 24 2024
SL Women won by 10 wkts (51b rem)
Player of the Match
Chamari AthapaththuSri Lanka Women
24/07Result
12th Match, Group B (N), Women's T20 Asia Cup at Dambulla, Jul 24 2024
SL Women won by 10 wkts (51b rem)
Player of the Match
Chamari AthapaththuSri Lanka Women

Match Centre

Statistics

Best performances - Batsmen

AMCJK Athapaththu
49(35) 2x4 - 4x6
Control %80%
  • Productive Shot
  • on drive
  • 16 runs
  • 0x4 - 2x6
0 0 0 3 19 16 0 11
N Koncharoenkai
N Koncharoenkai
47(53) 5x4 - 0x6
Control %79%
  • Productive Shot
  • off drive
  • 13 runs
  • 2x4 - 0x6
1 9 7 5 3 7 7 8

Best performances - Bowlers

WK Dilhari
WK Dilhari
O4
M0
R13
W2
Eco3.25
RHB
OFFLEG
2W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
SIP Fernando
SIP Fernando
O3
M0
R10
W1
Eco3.33
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH

Scorer: K Vairavan | Commentator: Shashank Kishore

Thanks for joining us. Look forward to your company on Friday for the double-header day.

Athapaththu is the Player of the Match for her bristling knock and 1/15.

"Enjoying my cricket, don't want to take too much risk. Just wanna play my natural game. Approach was see-ball-hit-ball. I enjoy hitting sixes because I work hard doing power hitting in the nets, so I continue it in the middle. I didn't think of my individual landmark, was just thinking of winning the game [when asked about the bye they took to finish the game]. We wanna take it one game at a time, just be serious but at the same time not take too much pressure on my shoulders."

Putthawong: It's been a wonderful journey to get the chance to play against the big teams. We're learning a lot. It's my first experience as captain, saw how aggressive the big teams play. We've to learn from that moving forward. We'll take back wonderful memories, hopefully we'll come back and win a lot more games.

Sri Lanka cruise home in style. This has been another one-way fare. The group stages of the Women's Asia Cup has taught us that the Associates still have a long, long way to go and directly blooding them in against the big sides in a big competition from a series of camps and intra-squad games does no justice to anybody. But that debate is for another day.

Sri Lanka played near full-strength and flexed their muscle in every facet, before eventually razing down this small'ish target. They're no more the diffident team they were even until three years ago. This is a different Sri Lankan team under an inspired captain who is flying the country's flag globally.

Here's the semi-final line-up for Friday:
India v Bangladesh
Sri Lanka v Pakistan

11.3
1b
Maya to Athapaththu, 1 bye, game, set and match to Sri Lanka! They waltz into the semi-finals against Pakistan with a thumping win. Chamari's attempted cut shot misses the bat, the keeper fumbles and they run the bye. A bit of an anti-climatic finish, but no one seems particularly perturbed.
11.2
2
Maya to Athapaththu, 2 runs, milks two as she heaves this across the line towards long-on. The fielder nearly parried it to the ropes but recovered in time to stop it.
11.1
1
Maya to Gunaratne, 1 run, mistimes a heave down to long-on, will get a single

END OF OVER:
11 | 9 Runs | SL-W: 90/0 (4 runs required from 54 balls, RR: 8.18, RRR: 0.44)

  • Vishmi Gunaratne38 (33b)
  • Chamari Athapaththu47 (33b)
  • Suleeporn Laomi1-0-7-0
  • Phannita Maya1-0-14-0
10.6
1
Laomi to Gunaratne, 1 run, walks across and paddles it round the corner to fine leg
10.5
1
Laomi to Athapaththu, 1 run, takes the single to tease the crowd a bit more, the pull is mistimed over midwicket
10.4
0
Laomi to Athapaththu, no run, the crowd has to wait, Chamari beaten on the cut

Can Chamari finish it off with a six and also get past a half-century? She got to a century in the previous game with a six.