Defending champions Sri Lanka moved to the highest of Group B within the Ladies’s Asia Cup after beating Indonesia by 75 runs in Dubai on Thursday, because of captain Chamari Athapaththu’s document seven-wicket haul and Nilakshika Silva’s half-century.Sri Lanka had been defending a modest goal of 125 on a slow-paced pitch, however Athapaththu turned the match round with among the finest bowling performances in ladies’s T20 internationals.She got here on to bowl within the fourth over and struck along with her fourth, seventh and eighth deliveries. Though she missed out on a hat-trick in that over, she accomplished it later by taking three wickets in three balls throughout two overs.Athapaththu completed with 7/5 in 21 balls, changing into the primary bowler from a Full Member nation to take seven wickets in a ladies’s T20I. The earlier finest figures in ladies’s T20Is belonged to Zimbabwe’s Esther Mbofana, who took 6/11 in opposition to Eswatini in 2021.Indonesia had been bowled out for 49. Rahmawati Pangestuti scored 10, whereas Ni Made Putri Suwandewi remained unbeaten on 12. No different Indonesian batter reached double figures.Earlier, Sri Lanka had been in hassle at 62/6 earlier than Nilakshika Silva scored 50 off 35 balls to raise them to 124/7.For Indonesia, Ni Luh Dewi was the choose of the bowlers with 3/32.The win took Sri Lanka to the highest of Group B within the Ladies’s Asia Cup.In Group A, India stay on prime of the standings, with Pakistan in second place.In the meantime, India’s vice-captain Smriti Mandhana additionally made historical past throughout India’s Group A match in opposition to Hong Kong in Dubai. The 30-year-old went previous Mithali Raj to develop into the best run-scorer in ladies’s worldwide cricket throughout all codecs.
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