Chamari Athapaththu didn’t fairly seem like a girl who has needed to oversee crushing defeats in back-to-back-T20Is. She smiled continuously as she spoke of the horrors at Visakhapatnam and the determined have to bounce again in Friday’s third T20I in Thiruvananthapuram in opposition to a robust Indian facet.
“I really feel we have to enhance our batting just a little bit, particularly in our center order and the way we end the sport as a batting unit,” stated the Sri Lankan captain. “Our energy sport is just not ok for this format.”
She was all reward for her counterpart Harmanpreet Kaur. “We’re good associates,” Athapaththu stated. “We speak about cricket and different issues as nicely. As a cricket I do know she is likely one of the finest leaders as a result of she is the woman who modified Indian cricket. As an Asian, I’m actually happy with her.”
She recalled taking part in the Ladies’s T20 Problem (the precursor to the WPL). “We shared the identical dressing room once we performed for Supernovas,” she stated. “So, I understand how she dealt with conditions and the way she managed folks within the dressing room.”
Printed on Dec 25, 2025