Chamari Atapattu

Chamari Atapattu
Personal information
Full name Atapattu Mudiyanselage Chamari Jayangani
Born (1990-02-09) 9 February 1990
Gokarella, Sri Lanka
Batting Left-handed
Bowling Right-arm medium
Role Batter
International information
National side
ODI debut (cap 44) 18 April 2010 v West Indies
Last ODI 16 September 2018 v India
T20I debut (cap 12) 15 June 2009 v India
Last T20I 25 September 2018 v India
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2009– Kurunegala Youth Cricket Club Women
Career statistics
Competition WODI WT20I
Matches 66 58
Runs scored 1986 1001
Batting average 30.55 18.20
100s/50s 4/12 0/1
Top score 178* 52
Balls bowled 697 193
Wickets 13 8
Bowling average 47.00 37.40
5 wickets in innings 0 -
10 wickets in match 0 n/a
Best bowling 3/31 2/24
Catches/stumpings 19/- 10/-
Source: ESPNCricinfo, 25 September 2018

Atapattu Mudiyanselage Chamari Jayangani (born 9 February 1990) is a Sri Lankan cricketer and the current captain of the women's team of Sri Lanka. She had a short stint as the captain of the Sri Lanka women's team, and was succeeded by the previous captain Shashikala Siriwardene. Chamari was the tenth captain for Sri Lanka women's national cricket team, winning only one ODI, with 13 losses.[1] In November 2017, she was named the Women's Cricketer of the Year for the 2016–17 season at Sri Lanka Cricket's annual awards.[2]

International career

She is known for aggressive batting in the top order. In the 2013 Women's Cricket World Cup, Atapattu hit a quick fifty against England women, where the Sri Lanka women won the match. Under her capataincy, Sri Lanka women won the T20I series against Pakistan Women.[3][4]

She is also the only Sri Lankan woman cricketer to score an ODI century, doing this four times in her career. She holds the record for scoring the most number of ODI centuries and fifties for Sri Lanka in Women's cricket history.[5][6] She also holds the record for the highest WODI score for Sri Lanka, with 178 not out.[7] She has the highest ODI average for Sri Lanka in Women's Cricket.[8]She is also the only Sri Lankan woman cricketer to score an ODI hundred as well as having scored most runs in an innings at a strike rate of over 100.She was the third woman cricketer in the world to be dismissed for 99 in an ODI innings.[9]

Atapattu's 178 not out is the highest Women's ODI score when batting at number three position for Sri Lanka.[10]Chamari Atapattu is the first and only Sri Lankan woman cricketer to score a century in Women's Cricket World Cup history[11][12]

Atapattu is the first Sri Lankan batswoman to pass 1,000 runs in T20Is and she is also the leading runscorer for Sri Lanka in both ODIs and T20Is.[13][14]

At the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup, during Sri Lanka's match against Australia, she scored the third-highest individual total in a WODI and the second-highest total in a Women's World Cup match, with 178 not out.[15] She also scored the highest percentage of runs in a completed innings in a WODI (69.26%) and the most runs in boundaries in a WODI, with 124.[15][16] It was also the record for scoring the highest individual score in an innings of a WODI in a losing cause.[17]

In October 2018, she was named as captain of Sri Lanka's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies.[18]

Achievements and accolades

  • ODI Batswoman of the year 2015-16.[19]
  • T20I Batswoman of the year 2016-17.
  • ODI Batswoman of the year 2016-17.
  • Dialog Women’s Cricketer of the Year 2016-17.[20]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Cricket Records | Records | Sri Lanka Women | Women's One-Day Internationals | List of captains | ESPN Cricinfo". Cricinfo. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  2. ↑ "Gunaratne wins big at SLC's annual awards". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
  3. ↑ "Chamari Atapattu". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
  4. ↑ "Atapattu leads SL to series win". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  5. ↑ "Cricket Records | Records | Sri Lanka Women | Women's One-Day Internationals | Most hundreds | ESPN Cricinfo". Cricinfo. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  6. ↑ "Cricket Records | Records | Sri Lanka Women | Women's One-Day Internationals | Most fifties (and over) | ESPN Cricinfo". Cricinfo. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  7. ↑ "Cricket Records | Records | Sri Lanka Women | Women's One-Day Internationals | High scores | ESPN Cricinfo". Cricinfo. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  8. ↑ "Cricket Records | Records | Sri Lanka Women | Women's One-Day Internationals | Highest averages | ESPN Cricinfo". Cricinfo. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  9. ↑ "Records | Women's One-Day Internationals | Batting records | Dismissed for 99 (and 199, 299 etc) | ESPN Cricinfo". Cricinfo. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
  10. ↑ "The Home of CricketArchive". cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
  11. ↑ "Cricket Records | Records | Women's World Cup - Sri Lanka Women | List of hundreds | ESPN Cricinfo". Cricinfo. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  12. ↑ "Cricket Records | Records | Women's World Cup - Sri Lanka Women | High scores | ESPN Cricinfo". Cricinfo. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  13. ↑ "Cricket Records | Records | Sri Lanka Women | Women's One-Day Internationals | Most runs | ESPN Cricinfo". Cricinfo. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
  14. ↑ "Cricket Records | Records | Sri Lanka Women | Women's Twenty20 Internationals | Most runs | ESPN Cricinfo". Cricinfo. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
  15. 1 2 "Chamari Atapattu's one-woman effort". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
  16. ↑ "Records | Women's One-Day Internationals | Batting records | Highest percentage of runs in a completed innings | ESPN Cricinfo". Cricinfo. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
  17. ↑ "Records | Women's One-Day Internationals | Batting records | Most runs in a match on the losing side | ESPN Cricinfo". Cricinfo. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
  18. ↑ "Squads confirmed for ICC Women's World T20 2018". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  19. ↑ "Dialog Cricket Awards 2016: List of award winners". Cricket Machan. 1 December 2016.
  20. ↑ "Herath and Gunaratne triumph Dialog Cricket Awards 2017". cricinfo. 1 November 2017.
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