DTVHINDIWomen’s Asia Cup 2024: Chamari Athapaththu gets emotional after seeing her ailing mother after historic win, watch video
Atapattu played a brilliant innings in the final match against India. Chamari Athapaththu (Image Credit- Twitter/X) After the victory of Sri Lanka’s women’s cricket team in the Women’s Asia Cup final, captain Chamari Athapaththu was seen getting emotional after seeing her ailing mother. Also, the video of this incident is rapidly going viral on social media. It is worth noting that the final match of the Women’s Asia Cup 2024 was played yesterday on 28 July between the women’s cricket teams of India and Sri Lanka (INDW vs SLW) at the Dambulla International Cricket Stadium in Rangiri. So in this match, Sri Lanka won against India by 8 wickets, achieving a historic victory under the captaincy of Chamari Athapaththu. But when Chamari reached the Sri Lankan dressing room after winning the tournament, she became emotional after seeing her mother. She was also seen kissing her mother. So, this video has been shared by the female cricketer on her official x account. Watch this emotional video Emotional scenes ♥️🥹 Soon after the press conference, Chamari with a trophy in her hand rushed to her mom and hugged her 🫶 Chamari’s mom has been battling health issues and was at the stadium after 13 years when her daughter scored a ton a few days ago. #CricketTwitter pic.twitter.com/YQR7gkfs04 — Female Cricket (@imfemalecricket) July 28, 2024 Chamari Athapaththu played the captaincy innings in the final If we give you information about the Women’s Asia Cup final match, then the Indian women’s team batted first and scored 165 runs for the loss of 6 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. For Team India, Smriti Mandhana scored 60 runs in 47 balls, while Jemima Rodrigues scored 29 and Richa Ghosh scored 30 runs. On the other hand, when Sri Lanka came out to chase the target of 166 runs given by India, it easily achieved this target by losing 2 wickets in 18.4 overs. For the Lankan team, opener Chamari Atapattu played a brilliant innings of 61 runs with the help of 9 fours and 2 sixes in 43 balls. Apart from this, Harshita Samarawickrama remained unbeaten by scoring 69* and Kavisha Dilhari remained unbeaten by scoring 30* and returned after winning the match for her team.
