The Owner of GO FOR GOLD Website together with the rest of the Gold team takes this opportunity to express his heartfelt congratulations and best wishes to Sri Lanka Women’s Captain Chamari Athapaththu for her historic milestone of becoming the first and only Sri Lankan female cricketer to achieve 4000 ODI runs as well as the fourth Asian and 20th female batter overall to do so in Sri Lanka’s ICC Women’s World Cup triumph against Bangladesh by 7 runs at the DY Patil Sports by Academy in Navi Mumbai on Monday when she scored 46 off 43 balls inclusive of 6 fours and 2 sixes.
“Indeed, I am really moved by this rare first by a Sri Lankan women’s cricketer Chamari Athapaththu who has been by her own right literally the Queen of Sri Lankan women’s cricket.
The mannerism of her stroke play has stood her out as a goliath trailblazer with the bat, an extraordinary product in the game for Sri Lanka which makes all of us so proud of,” said Lakith Peiris of her great feat
Sri Lanka won the match by 7 runs scoring 202 off 48 4 overs with one drop Hasini Perera top scoring with a compelling Player of the Match 85 off 99 balls lit up by 13 boundaries and a six while the Lankan captain’s innings contained 2 over the ropes and 6 to the ropes as Bangladesh was checkmated by the Lankans for 195 for 9 wickets off 50 overs.