Delhi: In the 21st match of the ICC Women’s ODI World Cup 2025, Sri Lanka women’s cricket team defeated Bangladesh women’s team by 7 runs and registered its first win in the tournament. In this match played in Navi Mumbai, Sri Lanka, batting first, scored 202 runs after losing all the wickets in 44.4 overs.

Hasini Perera’s brilliant innings

For Sri Lanka, Hasini Perera batted brilliantly and scored 85 runs in 99 balls, which included 13 fours and 1 six. This was the best score of his ODI career. During this innings, Perera completed 1,000 runs in women’s ODI cricket. So far, he has scored 1,036 runs in 59 matches at an average of 19.18 and this was his first half-century in ODIs. For this performance he was awarded the title of Player of the Match.

Captain Atapattu’s new record

Captain Chamari Atapattu played a useful inning of 46 runs and with this he completed 4,000 runs in his ODI career. This was his 120th ODI match. Atapattu is scoring runs at an average of more than 35, which includes 9 centuries and 20 half-centuries. Till now he has hit more than 500 fours and 60 sixes.

Atapattu has become the 20th batsman in the world and the first Sri Lankan batsman to complete 4,000 runs in women’s ODI cricket. She has also become the fourth Asian batsman to achieve this feat. Before her, India’s Mithali Raj, Smriti Mandhana and Harmanpreet Kaur have touched this milestone.

Bangladesh’s stumbling innings after a good start

In reply, Bangladesh women’s team could score only 195 runs for 9 wickets in the stipulated 50 overs and lost the match by 7 runs. Nigar Sultana and Sharmin Akhtar scored half-centuries, but could not lead the team to victory. After the initial shocks, both of them handled the innings. But in the end Bangladesh’s batting again fell apart.

At the same time, after Vishami Gunaratne was out on 0, Atapattu and Perera gave stability to the team. Neelakshi de Silva also contributed 37 runs. The bowlers also performed disciplinedly and kept Bangladesh away from the target and gave the team its first win in the tournament. Captain Chamari Atapattu contributed significantly to his team’s victory by taking 4 important wickets.