Chamari credits her heroic innings to coach and Falcons team management

Sri Lanka's women's cricket captain Chamari Athapaththu hopes to continue her current cricket form, after she won the Player of the Match award at the FairBreak Invitational Tournament in Hong Kong on Tuesday.

The 31-year-old batting all-rounder is playing for the Falcons Women team and against Sapphires Women, she opened the batting and scored 75 in 44 balls.

Her aggressive batting included 13 boundaries (7 fours and 6 sixes) and it helped her team win with 6.3 overs to spare.

"Actually, I am very happy about my performance. Today's game was like a must-win game for us. With the coach Joanne Broadbent and team management including captain Suzie Bates we had decided a specific game plan and we executed in the same way. I played my natural game today. I started with the slow batting but then I continued with aggressiveness and ultimately we won the match and I am happy for it,” she said.

"As a Falcon member I was very happy to get support from all our team members including Danni Wyatt also and hope to continue with our winning streak for the next two games also and win the Champions Trophy. Last year, we were the runners-up team but this year, we hope to win this for our team,” she added further. By Bipin Dani