Chamari Athapaththu Becomes First Sri Lankan Player To Collect 3000 Runs In Women's ODI

Chamari Athapaththu and Vishmi Gunaratne batted brilliantly while chasing a total, putting up 159 for the first wicket, helping their team win

Chamari Athapaththu in action.

The New Zealand women's cricket team is currently touring Sri Lanka to take part in a three-match ODI series, that a three-match T20I series will follow. (Getty)

Talking about the first ODI that got reduced to 28 over affair as Rain interrupted in between, the Blackcaps’ posted 170/5 after opting to bat. (Getty)

Sri Lankan openers Chamari Athapaththu and Vishmi Gunaratne batted brilliantly while chasing a total, putting up 159 for the first wicket, helping their team win. (Getty)

Gunaratne however got outplayed after making 74 ball 50 and Sri Lanka required 13 more runs to win to take a 1-0 lead in the series. (Getty)

Harshitha Madavi then stepped in at the 3 spot, joined her captain Athapaththu, and completed the proceedings, with an over to spare. (Getty)

Just before the game started, Sri Lanka’s skipper Chamari Athapaththu was 49 runs away of becoming the first woman in her nation to get to 3000 WODI runs. (Getty)

She scripted history in the 13th over of Sri Lanka's innings. The 33-year-old registered her seventh WODI hundred and ended up playing an unbeaten knock of 108 off just 83 balls, with the help of 11 fours and five sixes. (Getty)