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Full name | Atapattu Mudiyanselage Chamari Jayangani | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Gokarella, Sri Lanka |
9 February 1990 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting style | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling style | Right-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Batter | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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National side | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI debut | 18 April 2010 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | 25 September 2016 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
T20I debut | 15 June 2009 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last T20I | 27 September 2016 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2009– | Kurunegala Youth Cricket Club Women | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 21 February 2017
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Women's Cricket | ||
Representing ![]() |
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Asian Games
Bronze medal |
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2014 Incheon | Team |
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 twice 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 111. 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 111 is the highest Women's ODI score when batting at number 3 position for Sri Lanka.
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.
Bronze medal