Match Details

NZW vs SLW 3rd ODI, NZW vs SLW 2023

SLW

196-226.5

Sri Lanka Women won by 8 wickets (DLS METHOD)

NZW

31.0127-2

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Player of the Match

Chamari Athapaththu

Sri Lanka Women

140(80)

SLW - 2nd Innings

Session	Open	PASS
5 Over	25	7
10 Over	41	61
15 Over	92	98
20 Over	137	129
25 Over	168	177

NZW - 1st Innings

Session	Open	PASS
10 Over	48	26
15 Over	47	46
20 Over	74	69
25 Over	97	96
30 Over	122	122

Commentary

That's it from a historic series as Sri Lanak wrap it up against the odds winning 2-1! Ninaad Dixit here signing off on behalf of my co-commentator Ayan Chatterjee and scorers Dushyant Kumar & Bishal Mandal. Stay tuned for more cricketing action from around the world.

Chamari Athapaththu (Sri Lanka Captain): "I am really happy about my performance and the team performance. I can mention my teammates and coaching staff, they really helped me a lot.

We are playing to our potential and are playing our natural game. Especially Nilakshi, she's one of the good players and now a senior player of our team. She helped me a lot as we build that partnership. We won, that's good.

I don't care about my records. I just care about my team performance and about my country.

Another format, different conditions. I know that Kiwis are a very good team. They have a very good batting line up especially 4-5 players playing franchise cricket so they know how to play T20 cricket. But we have plans which we will stick to and will try to continue this performance in T20 tournament as well."

Sophie Devine (New Zealand Women Captain): "I think Sri Lanka showed us how we should play here. We were disappointing. Chamari showed us the way and we need to look at the mirror and back in the drawing board. We need to train hard and field better. We have dropped catches and look at ourselves hard. I think Sri Lanka deserved the win and congratulations to them. Thank you very much."

Chamari Athapaththu is the player of the series as well!

Chamari Athapaththu is the player of the match!

5:19 PM: A famous win for Sri Lanka as they chase a tough DLS adjusted score to win by 8 wickets and also win the ODI series against New Zealand by 2-1. Heavy showers during the Kiwi innings halted the game for a long long time with the first innings score being 127/2 with Suzie Bates scoring an unbeaten 63 in 87 balls.

Chasing a steep total, opener Vishmi Gunaratne was dismissed in the very first over by Lea Tahuhu (1/29) and Sri Lanka lost Harshitha Madavi soon afterwards tottering at 6/2 in the fourth over.

Sri Lanka's skipper and savior Chamari Athapaththu then stepped up and smashed all the bowlers throughout the ground hitting 13 fours and nine maximums to bring up her quickest ODI century pushing SL over the line as they win their first ever series against the opponent.

Athapaththu registered her second highest ODI score and also surpassed Mithali Raj as the Asian batters with most number of international tons registering her 9th ton and 8th in the 50-over format.

Athapaththu was supported well by Nilakshi de Silva who stayed till the end and allowed the skipper to take the aggressor's role slowly trudging to 48 not out, her highest ODI score. After seeing off Lea Tahuhu and skipper Sophie Devine's spell, the batters went all in and smashed all the other bowlers including the spinners to all parts.

With this win, Sri Lanka have attained 10 points in the ICC Women's Championship and is only second to India who have one extra win and have 12 points winning all their six games. Sri Lanka has managed to win 4 in 10 matches with couple of games being abandoned due to bad weather.

26.5 A Kerr to Silva

2 Full on the middle stump, Nilakshi shuffles across and pulls behind square in the leg side. Deep fine leg moves to her right and dives to stop the ball.

26.4 A Kerr to C Athapaththu

1 Full toss outside off around the waist. Swung across the line to Maddy Green at deep midwicket.

26.3 A Kerr to C Athapaththu

2 Full and outside the off stump. Gets down on a knee and goes for a big hit across the line to the left of long on. Couple of runs taken.

26.2 A Kerr to Silva

1 Full toss on the off stump. Smashes across the line but straight to deep midwicket.

26.1 A Kerr to Silva

2 Over the wicket, length ball around the off stump. Nilakshi forces a slog sweep and mistimes the hoick behind square in the leg side. The ball spins further away from Molly Penfold running in from deep backward square.

OVER 26

Sri Lanka Women

188/2

Chamari Athapaththu

137(78)

Nilakshi de Silva

43(65)

Sophie Devine

1-32(5.0)

25.6 S Devine to C Athapaththu

6 SIX!! Short and just outside the off stump. Athapaththu swings across and makes good connection this time!! Slaps it right off the middle of the bat and smashes it beyond the midwicket fence!

25.5 S Devine to C Athapaththu

0 Full and wide outside off. Goes for the one handed drive without footwork and misses again.

25.4 S Devine to C Athapaththu

0 Length ball going across the left hander. Athapaththu throws her hands at it and misses. No signal from the umpire.

25.3 S Devine to C Athapaththu

0 Short and wide outside off. Big swing and a miss! Hard length from Sophie Devine!

25.2 S Devine to C Athapaththu

4 FOUR RUNS!! Length ball wide outside the off stump. Athapaththu watches the width on offer and smacks a cross batted stroke on the front foot playing away from the body. Finds the big vacant backward point region to her name.