The Sri Lanka women’s cricket team led by Chamari Athapattu, who won the silver medal in the women’s cricket event at the Asian Games, is scheduled to return to Sri Lanka tonight (28).
Sri Lanka won an Asian Games medal after 9 years.
This is the third medal won in the cricket event at this sports festival.
Earlier in 2014, the Sri Lanka men’s cricket team won the gold medal and the women’s team won the bronze medal.
Meanwhile, commencing the men’s cricket matches yesterday, the Nepali team managed to set a cricket record in the match held against Mongolia.
Nepali batters shattered three world records in the Asian Games 2023 match against Mongolia en route to becoming the first team to amass a 300-plus total in T20Is on Wednesday.
Kushal Malla, a 19-year-old left-handed batter, broke David Miller and Rohit Sharma’s joint record to register the fastest-ever T20I hundred in 34 balls.
By the end of the innings, Malla had scored 137 not out off 50 balls with 8 fours and 12 sixes.
The previous record for the highest innings total in a T20I was held by Afghanistan, who had amassed 278 for 3 against Ireland on February 23, 2019.
Dipendra Singh Airee blasted a nine-ball fifty that bettered Yuvraj Singh’s 16-year-old record by scoring 50 runs in 9 balls.
Captain Rohit Paudel scored 61 runs off 27 balls, and he and Malla built a partnership of 193 runs for the third wicket in 63 balls.
It went down in the records as the best partnership for the third wicket in a Twenty20 match.
The Nepali team hit 26 sixes in this innings and also held the record for most sixes in a T20I innings. With that, Afghanistan’s record of 22 sixes in an innings was broken.
The Mongolian team, who played the reply innings, were bowled out for 41 runs in 13.1 overs. Only one Mongolian batter reached a double-digit score, 10 in 23 by Davaasuren Jamyansuren.
