The seventh match of the Women's Asia Cup 2024 was played between Sri Lanka and Malaysia. In this match, the Sri Lankan team won an easy victory. This is Sri Lanka's second win in the tournament. With this win, they have come very close to the semi-finals. A historic innings was seen from a Sri Lankan batsman in the match. This player did a feat which no batsman could do before in the history of T20 Women's Asia Cup.

34 year old player created history

Chamari Atapattu played a captaincy innings for Sri Lanka in this match and made many records. Chamari Atapattu scored an unbeaten 119 runs in 69 balls in this match. During this, she hit 14 fours and 7 sixes. With this, Chamari Atapattu also became the first batsman to score a century in the T20 Women's Asia Cup. This was the third century of her T20I career. At the same time, this was the first time in Sri Lanka when a female batsman scored a century in T20.

Chamari Atapattu also broke one of her own records with this innings. Actually, this is the biggest innings played by any batsman for Sri Lanka in T20. Earlier also this record was in her name. Chamari Atapattu had earlier made this record by playing an innings of 113 runs. But now she has broken her own record with an innings of 119 runs.

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Sri Lankan team registered an easy win

Sri Lankan captain Chamari Atapattu won the toss and decided to bat first, which proved to be correct. Sri Lanka batted first and scored 184 runs for the loss of 4 wickets in 20 overs. In response, Malaysia's batting was a complete flop. Malaysia's team was all out after scoring 40 runs in 19.5 overs. In this way, Sri Lanka won this match by 144 runs, which is their biggest win in T20.