As Sri Lanka upset South Africa with a record run-chase in Potchefstroom to tie the three-match ICC Women's Championship ODI series and close a very successful bilateral trip to the Rainbow Nation, Chamari Athapaththu was at her savage best.
Athapaththu led Sri Lanka's fightback with a magnificent hundred and stayed undefeated on 195, the third-highest total in women's ODIs, as the visitors overcame the goal with 33 balls to spare. Chasing 302 to win.
Slightly behind the extraordinary 201* Glenn Maxwell put together for Australia against Afghanistan at last year's ICC Men's Cricket World Cup, Athapaththu's innings was also the second highest individual score in a successful run chase in ODI cricket - both men's and women's.
Laura Wolvaardt earlier kept up her outstanding performance in the bilateral series against Sri Lanka with a second ODI hundred as many games. In the third and last ODI of the series, the opener wrecked an undefeated 184 to propel South Africa to 301.
Going surpassing Athapaththu's 178* against Australia in 2017, Wolvaardt's innings is the greatest score by a South African in women's ODIs and was also briefly the fourth-highest.
Highest individual scores in women's ODIs
| Player |
Score |
Opposition and Year |
| Amelia Kerr |
232* |
Ireland, 2018 |
| Belinda Clark |
229* |
Denmark, 1997 |
| Chamari Athapaththu |
195* |
South Africa, 2024 |
| Deepti Sharma |
188 |
Ireland, 2017 |
| Laura Wolvaardt |
184* |
Sri Lanka, 2024 |
Having struck a hundred in the T20I part of the trip, Wolvaardt again hammered a century in the second ODI at Kimberley on Saturday. She added even another ton on Wednesday with a remarkable knock.
But her brilliance was overshadowed by her opposite number, Athapaththu, who grabbed the attention with a spectacular hundred to complete the first-ever successful run-chase of over 300 in women’s ODIs.
Australia had held the record for the highest run-chase in women’s ODIs for more than a decade. In 2012, Australia chased down a target of 289 against New Zealand. They also ran down 283 against India at the Wankhede last year.
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As Sri Lanka upset South Africa with a record run-chase in Potchefstroom to tie the three-match ICC Women's Championship ODI series and close a very successful bilateral trip to the Rainbow Nation, Chamari Athapaththu was at her savage best.
Athapaththu led Sri Lanka's fightback with a magnificent hundred and stayed undefeated on 195, the third-highest total in women's ODIs, as the visitors overcame the goal with 33 balls to spare. Chasing 302 to win.
Slightly behind the extraordinary 201* Glenn Maxwell put together for Australia against Afghanistan at last year's ICC Men's Cricket World Cup, Athapaththu's innings was also the second highest individual score in a successful run chase in ODI cricket - both men's and women's.
Laura Wolvaardt earlier kept up her outstanding performance in the bilateral series against Sri Lanka with a second ODI hundred as many games. In the third and last ODI of the series, the opener wrecked an undefeated 184 to propel South Africa to 301.
Going surpassing Athapaththu's 178* against Australia in 2017, Wolvaardt's innings is the greatest score by a South African in women's ODIs and was also briefly the fourth-highest.
Highest individual scores in women's ODIs
Having struck a hundred in the T20I part of the trip, Wolvaardt again hammered a century in the second ODI at Kimberley on Saturday. She added even another ton on Wednesday with a remarkable knock.
But her brilliance was overshadowed by her opposite number, Athapaththu, who grabbed the attention with a spectacular hundred to complete the first-ever successful run-chase of over 300 in women’s ODIs.
Australia had held the record for the highest run-chase in women’s ODIs for more than a decade. In 2012, Australia chased down a target of 289 against New Zealand. They also ran down 283 against India at the Wankhede last year.