Sri Lanka captain Chamari Athapaththu views her stint with the Barbados Royals within the 2024 Girls’s Caribbean Premier League (WCPL) as a beneficial alternative to fine-tune her abilities forward of the Girls’s T20 World Cup, set to start on October 3 within the UAE. Athapaththu, who has led Sri Lanka to spectacular victories in varied worldwide sequence and tournaments over the previous yr, believes that enjoying in numerous circumstances and managing stress in high-stakes matches will bolster her crew’s readiness for the upcoming international occasion.
Preparation and Learnings Forward of T20 World Cup
Chamari Athapaththu, the Sri Lankan captain, views her stint with the Barbados Royals within the Girls’s Caribbean Premier League (WCPL) as a beneficial preparation for the upcoming Girls’s T20 World Cup within the UAE. Highlighting the significance of acclimating to completely different circumstances and managing stress, Chamari notes how these experiences sharpen her efficiency within the fast-paced T20 format. “As a crew and gamers, our preparation is de facto good. We performed a couple of bilateral sequence and Girls’s Asia Cup as nicely earlier than I got here right here,” Chamari talked about, indicating the continuity and rigorous nature of their apply classes.
The Sri Lankan crew has been in prime kind since mid-2023, having secured victories in bilateral sequence in opposition to formidable groups like Bangladesh, England, South Africa, New Zealand, and the West Indies. Their crowning achievement got here with a win in opposition to India within the Girls’s Asia Cup last. Regardless of a difficult ODI sequence in opposition to Eire on account of unfamiliar climate circumstances, Chamari stays optimistic concerning the crew’s prospects. She credit the constructive mindset of their dressing room and the affect of head coach Rumesh Ratnayake as key elements in sustaining their kind and confidence.
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The Caribbean Expertise and Franchises
Enjoying within the Caribbean presents Chamari a refreshing expertise because of the vibrant and relaxed ambiance of the area. She appreciates the distinctive power of the WCPL, contrasting it with different T20 leagues worldwide. Chamari feels comfy with the Barbados Royals, embracing the calmness and enjoyable that comes with enjoying alongside Caribbean gamers. “The ambiance and vibe of being right here is to take pleasure in within the center,” she says, reflecting on the celebratory nature of the Caribbean fashion of cricket, which provides a definite allure to her expertise.
Chamari additionally credit Kumar Sangakkara, a Sri Lankan cricket legend and the director of cricket for the Barbados Royals, for the chance to play within the WCPL. Chamari’s worldwide T20 expertise spans varied leagues, together with the Girls’s Premier League, WBBL, Tremendous Smash, and The Hundred. Her fellow Sri Lankan teammate, Harshitha Samawickrama, additionally joined the WCPL, representing the Trinbago Knight Riders. Chamari takes delight within the rising presence of Sri Lankan gamers in international franchise leagues and hopes they are going to proceed to showcase their expertise on such platforms.
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