Chamari Atapattu

Atapattu Mudiyanselage Chamari Jayangani (born 9 February 1990) is a Sri Lankan cricketer and the current captain of the women's Twenty20 International 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]

Chamari Atapattu
Atapattu batting for Sri Lanka during the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup
Personal information
Full nameAtapattu Mudiyanselage Chamari Jayangani
Born (1990-02-09) 9 February 1990
Gokarella, Kurunegala, Sri Lanka
BattingLeft-handed
BowlingRight-arm medium
RoleBatter
International information
National side
ODI debut (cap 44)18 April 2010 v West Indies
Last ODI9 October 2019 v Australia
T20I debut (cap 12)15 June 2009 v India
Last T20I2 March 2020 v Bangladesh
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 1/1
Top score 178* 113
Balls bowled 697 193
Wickets 13 8
Bowling average 47.00 37.40
5 wickets in innings 0 -
10 wickets in match 0 0
Best bowling 3/31 2/24
Catches/stumpings 19/- 10/-
Source: Cricinfo, 2 March 2020

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 captaincy, 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 bowling for Sri Lanka during the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup

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] Ahead of the tournament, she was named as one of the players to watch.[19] She was the leading run-scorer for Sri Lanka in the tournament, with 59 runs in three matches.[20]

On 29 September 2019, in the first WT20I match against Australia, Atapattu scored her first century in WT20I cricket.[21][22] In January 2020, she was named as the captain of Sri Lanka's squad for the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup in Australia.[23] She was the leading run-scorer for Sri Lanka in the tournament, with 154 runs in four matches.[24]

Achievements and accolades
  • ODI Batswoman of the year 2015-16.[25]
  • T20I Batswoman of the year 2016-17.
  • ODI Batswoman of the year 2016-17.
  • Dialog Women's Cricketer of the Year 2016-17.[26]

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. "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. "Players to watch in ICC Women's World T20 2018". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
  20. "ICC Women's World T20, 2018/19 - Sri Lanka Women: Batting and bowling averages". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
  21. "Mooney 113 cornerstone of Australia's win; Atapattu's record ton in vain". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
  22. "Beth Mooney's century trumps Chamari Atapattu's masterclass as Australia go one-up". Women's Criczone. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
  23. "Sri Lanka squad for ICC Women's T20I World Cup 2020". Sri Lanka Cricket. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  24. "ICC Women's T20 World Cup, 2019/20 - Sri Lanka Women: Batting and bowling averages". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
  25. "Dialog Cricket Awards 2016: List of award winners". Cricket Machan. 1 December 2016.
  26. "Herath and Gunaratne triumph Dialog Cricket Awards 2017". cricinfo. 1 November 2017.

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