Women’s League exhibition matches Chamari Athapaththu to play in Pakistan

BY Bipin Dani 

Sri Lanka’s women’s team captain  Chamari Athapaththu, or any of Sri Lanka’s women’s players for that matter,  could not get a chance to play in the Indian Women’s Premier League, but Athapaththu has been invited to play the Women’s League Exhibition matches in Pakistan. This was revealed by Head of Women’s Cricket, Tania Mallick. 

She said, “Chamari Athapaththu  is one of the foreign participants to play these matches here.” 

“We are in the process of  hosting the Women’s Premier League in Pakistan and look out the window for it. These exhibition matches are the rehearsals.” 

The 35-year-old batting all rounder  Chamari reached Pakistan on Sunday night. 

“After a long journey from  Colombo to Islamabad, she reached here late night on Sunday and is not a part  of the training session on Monday but will be practicing from Tuesday.” 
“We have three matches to be  played on 8th, 10th and 12th March,” Mallick added. 

“A total of 10 foreign players  from seven Test playing countries (England, Australia, South Africa,  Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Ireland and New Zealand) are participating. Chamari is  a part of the Super Women team. The only other Asian player Jahanara Alam  (Bangladesh) is also in the same team playing against Amazons team.” she  added. 

“In these exhibition matches  only two teams are participating but there will be more in the Women’s  Premier League,”another PCB spokesperson hoped.