Chamari Athapaththu struck an unbeaten 195 off 139 versus South Africa on Wednesday (April 17), nearly solitarily leading Sri Lanka to the greatest effective chase in ladies’s ODI background.
Her innings was the third-highest private rating ever in a ladies’s ODI, with just Amelia Kerr’s and Belinda Clark’s double-centuries over her. In the very first innings, Laura Wolvaardt struck an unbeaten 184, which rests 5th on the checklist behind Athapaththu and Deepti Sharma’s 188 versus Ireland in 2017. Both innings are the greatest in the style for Sri Lanka and South Africa specifically. Athapaththu is the only gamer to have actually racked up a century for Sri Lanka in a ladies’s ODI, and she currently holds the greatest 11 ratings for them in the style. Vasanthi Ratnayake is her closest opposition with 88 versus Pakistan in 2002.
Having got to 90-0 in respond to South Africa’s 301-5, Sri Lanka slid to 126-4, shedding 4 gates in less than 3 overs. At that factor, managing the very first effective chase of over 300 in a ladies’s ODI looked nearly difficult. But, Nilakshika Silva claimed a maiden ODI half century, seeing out 71 rounds together with Athapaththu in a 179-run collaboration to alleviate to the target. When Athapaththu shattered Nadine de Klerk for a 6 to tape the winning runs, there were still 33 rounds staying in the innings.
A spectacular innings from Chamari Athapaththu’s assisted Sri Lanka carry out the greatest effective chase in ladies’s ODI background last evening
Her 195 * is likewise the third-highest private rating in ladies’s ODIs#SAvSL pic.twitter.com/G2wWf2nHVS
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The previous greatest effective target chase in the style was 289 by Australia versus New Zealand in 2012. Sri Lanka’s previous greatest effective chase in the style was 257-7 versus India in 2018. Sri Lanka ended up on 305-4 which, no matter the suit outcome, is the joint greatest 2nd innings amount to in ladies’s ODIs together with South Africa’s 305-9 versus England at Bristol in 2017. South Africa wound up on the shedding side that day having actually been established 374 to chase after.
Athapaththu’s innings is her 9th century in ODI cricket and her 2nd rating of over 175. She is the only gamer to go beyond 175 greater than as soon as in a ladies’s ODI. Across both sexes, just Glenn Maxwell has a greater rating batting 2nd in an ODI with his 201 * versus Afghanistan in the 2023World Cup It’s likewise Athapaththu’s 4th century batting 2nd, just Meg Lanning and Amy Satterthwaite have much more in ladies’s ODIs. Athapaththu, nonetheless, is the only gamer with 2 ratings of 140 and above in ladies’s ODIs, having actually racked up 140 * off simply 80 rounds versus New Zealand at Galle in 2014 in an effective chase.
The innings notes the extension of an extraordinary run of type with the bat forAthapaththu She typical 69.16 in ODIs in 2014 throughout 8 innings with 2 centuries. Only Wolvaardt has actually racked up even more runs than her in the style because the start of in 2014, with Wolvaardt once more the just one to have actually struck much more centuries. With a minimum of 100 runs, no gamer has actually balanced greater than Athapaththu (96.14) in the very same duration in Women’s ODIs, with Hayley Matthews the following greatest on 74.00. Limiting to just Sri Lanka gamers in ladies’s ODIs, because the start of in 2014 Athapaththu has actually racked up 673 runs, the following greatest marker is Kavisha Dilhari, that has actually racked up 191 runs in the very same variety of suits.
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