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Women's T20 Asia Cup 2024 is being played in Sri Lanka. The 7th match of this tournament was quite historic. This match was played between Sri Lanka and Malaysia. Sri Lanka won this match by a big margin. But the thing that was most discussed was the first century of the T20 Women's Asia Cup, which was scored by Sri Lankan player Chamari Atapattu.
Atapattu scored her first century in Women's T20 Asia Cup
Chamari Atapattu played a brilliant innings against Malaysia at the Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium. Batting first, the Sri Lankan team suffered an early setback with the early dismissal of Vishmi Gunaratne. After this, captain Atapattu came to the field and shared a 64-run partnership with Harshita Samarawickrama. Later, she shared a brilliant partnership of 115 runs with Anushka Sanjeev.
Chamari Atapattu completed her half-century in 35 balls and paved the way for her team to post a strong score. After the 18th over, she batted aggressively, especially hitting a four and two sixes off Aina Hamiza Hashim. After this, she started the 19th over with a four and then hit two sixes to dismiss Ayesha Alisa.
Chamari Atapattu scored a century
In the last over, Chamari Atapattu completed her century in 63 balls. She made a historic moment by hitting a long six off Winfred Duraisingam. Due to her brilliant innings, Sri Lanka scored a strong score of 184/4 in 20 overs.
Atapattu has three international centuries to his name
Against Malaysia, Chamari Atapattu scored an unbeaten 119 off 69 balls at a strike rate of 172.46, which included 14 fours and 7 sixes. This is Atapattu's third T20 International century. She has so far scored 3153 runs in 136 matches at an average of 24.44. Her last two centuries came against Australia and Scotland. Atapattu is currently seventh in the list of highest run-scorers in women's T20 Internationals after Suzie Bates, Harmanpreet Kaur, Meg Lanning, Smriti Mandhana, Stephanie Taylor and Sophie Devine.