The 34-year-old created history by scoring a century, the first time this has happened in an Asia Cup

The seventh match of the Women's Asia Cup 2024 was played between the teams of Sri Lanka and Malaysia. In this match, the Sri Lankan team achieved an easy victory. This is Sri Lanka's second win in the tournament. With this win, she moved very close to the semi-finals. A historic innings by the Sri Lankan batsmen was seen in this match. The player did a feat that no batsman in the history of T20 Women's Asia Cup has done before.

The 34-year-old made history

Chamri Atapattu played a captaincy innings for Sri Lanka in this match and set many records. Chamri Atapattu scored an unbeaten 119 off 69 balls in this match. During this he hit 14 fours and 7 sixes. Along with this, Chamri Atapattu also became the first batsman to score a century in T20 Women's Asia Cup. This was the third century of his T20 career. Apart from this, it was the first time in Sri Lanka that a woman batsman scored a century in T20.

Broke his own record

Chamri Atapattu also broke his own record with this innings. In fact, this is the highest innings by any batsman for Sri Lanka in T20s. Even before this record was in his name. Earlier Chamri Atapattu made this record by playing an innings of 113 runs. But now he has broken his own record with an innings of 119 runs.

Sri Lankan team won easily

In this match Sri Lankan captain Chamri Atapattu won the toss and decided to bat first which proved to be correct. Batting first, Sri Lanka scored 184 runs for the loss of 4 wickets in 20 overs. In response, Malaysia's batting was a complete flop. The Malaysian team was all out after scoring 40 runs in 19.5 overs. In such conditions, Sri Lanka won the match by 144 runs, which is their biggest win in T20.