Record! Athapaththu creates history; becomes first Lankan woman to achieve this rare feat

Sri Lankan skipper Chamari Athapaththu achieved a historical milestone by becoming the archetypal Sri Lankan pistillate cricketer to scope 4,000 ODI runs during her 46-run innings against Bangladesh successful the Women's World Cup 2025.The lucifer took spot astatine DY Patil Sports Academy successful Navi Mumbai wherever Athapaththu chose to bat archetypal aft winning the toss. She opened the innings but was dismissed by Rabeya Khan aft scoring 46 runs disconnected 43 balls.Despite not reaching a half-century, the 35-year-old reached the important 4,000-run people successful ODIs. The adjacent highest run-scorer from Sri Lanka is Shashikala Siriwardene with 2,029 runs, demonstrating Athapaththu's dominance successful women's cricket.Athapaththu needed conscionable 1 tally earlier the Bangladesh lucifer to execute this milestone. She present joins an elite radical arsenic the 4th Asian and 20th pistillate batter wide to people 4,000 runs successful Women's ODIs."HISTORY MADE! A monolithic congratulations to our trailblazer, Chamari Athapaththu, connected becoming the archetypal Sri Lankan and lone the 4th Asian batter to transverse the 4000 tally people successful ODIs! She besides present holds the grounds for the astir ODI caps for Sri Lanka!"The lucifer against Bangladesh is important for Sri Lanka's World Cup campaign.

They indispensable triumph to enactment successful contention for the semi-finals.Three teams person already secured their semi-final spots - Australia, South Africa, and England. Five teams are competing for the remaining position: India, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, Bangladesh, and Pakistan.A decision against Bangladesh would destruct Sri Lanka from the tournament.