Batting style Right-handed National side Sri Lanka | Name Chamari Atapattu Role Cricket Player | |
Full name Atapattu Mudiyanselage Chamari Jayangani Born 9 February 1990 (age 34) ( 1990-02-09 ) Gokarella, Sri Lanka ODI debut 18 April 2010 v West Indies Women Last ODI 13 January 2015 v Pakistan Women T20I debut 15 June 2009 v India Women | ||
Chamari Atapattu's 115 vs India Womens at Katunayake, 3rd ODI
Atapattu Mudiyanselage Chamari Jayangani (born 9 February 1990) is a Sri Lankan cricketer and the current vice-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 10th captain for Sri Lanka women's national cricket team and only managed to win only an ODI and with 13 losses.
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.
She is also the only Sri Lankan woman cricketer to score an ODI century, doing this three 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. She also holds the record for the highest WODI score for Sri Lanka, with 178 not out. She has the highest ODI average for Sri Lanka in Women's Cricket.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.
Atapattu's 178 not out is the highest Women's ODI score when batting at number three position for Sri Lanka.Chamari Atapattu is the first and only Sri Lankan woman cricketer to score a century in Women's Cricket World Cup history
On 1 December 2016, she won the Sri Lanka Cricket award for the Women's ODI Batsman of the Year, 2016.
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.
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. 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. It was also the record for scoring the highest individual score in an innings of a WODI in a losing cause.
