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A inspiring spell from Shorna Akter (3/27) helped Bangladesh vessel retired Sri Lanka for a humble 202 aft Hasini Perera struck a career-best 85 successful their must-win Women’s World Cup lucifer successful Navi Mumbai connected October 20, 2025.
Perera (85 disconnected 99 balls, 13x4s, 1x6s) was the fulcrum of Sri Lanka’s innings with her maiden fifty, forging 2 captious stands with Chamari Athapaththu (46) and Nilakshika Silva (37) connected the way, but Shorna took distant the bragging rights with a good spell of 10-4-27-3.
Perera’s 85, present her highest ODI score, besides featured 2 dropped catches erstwhile she was enactment down connected 55 and 63.
The Sri Lankan No. 3, Perera had herself to blasted for a tired-looking changeable precocious successful the innings which not lone denied her a deserving period but gave Bangladesh an unexpected opening, which they afloat capitalised on.
Sri Lanka appeared to beryllium connected people for a daunting first-innings full but a flurry of wickets, which began with Silva being dismissed by Shorna, ending a 74-run 5th wicket basal with Perera which threatened to instrumentality the crippled distant for Bangladesh.
Shorna was the designer of Sri Lanka’s descent arsenic aft getting Silva caught astatine abbreviated 3rd successful the 32nd over, she had Anushka Sanjeewani backmost successful shadiness for a casual instrumentality grab.
And then, successful a mediocre execution of the reverse sweep, the 18-year-old right-arm spinner Shorna’s loopy transportation deed Perera connected her backfoot successful beforehand of the limb stump.
Perera, who displayed a affluent array of strokes particularly on the ground, paid a hefty terms for attempting to reverse expanse from a vertical presumption and not reaching retired to play the shot conventionally, and her situation against on-field telephone of retired was futile.
From a comfy 174 for 4 successful the 32nd implicit and looking acceptable for a large finish, Sri Lanka folded meekly for 202 all-out successful 48.4 overs.
Earlier, Athapaththu made a strokeful 46 which included 2 sixes and six fours and adjacent arsenic she looked primed for a large knock, it wasn’t meant to be.
Athapaththu began with a 4 done covers but a lofted deed for a six implicit screen disconnected Marufa Akter (1/36) successful the 5th implicit was the item of her innings.
The Sri Lankan skipper was much belligerent of the 2 successful her 72-run basal for the 2nd wicket with Perera aft her broadside was rocked by Marufa connected the archetypal shot of the match, who pinned Vishmi Gunaratne (0) successful beforehand of the wickets.
Athapaththu, meanwhile, created past erstwhile she became the archetypal Sri Lankan pistillate to transverse the landmark of 4,000 ODI runs.
