On this day in 2017, Chamari Atapattu scored the third highest score in women’s ODIs. Chamari played the knock of a lifetime against Australia in 2017 Women’s world cup that will remain etched in the cricket record books. Her unbeaten score of 143-ball 178 comprised of 22 fours and 6 sixes.
Sri Lanka were 77-4, then 130-6, had a second highest score of 24, and somehow managed to set the best team on the planet a world-record chase of 257. Single-handed efforts don’t get any more scintillating. WISDEN cricket ranked this innings No. 3 in Women’s innings of the decade.
Chamari Atapattu’s 178 is second only to Sanath Jayasuriya’s 189 in-terms of highest runs scored by a Sri Lankan in ODIs.