Lanning denies Sri Lanka after Atapattu tears up record books

By Adam Collins
June 29, County Ground, Bristol

Sri Lanka Women 257-9 (|Atapattu 178*, Bolton 2-18)
Australia Women 262-2 (Lanning 152*, Bolton 60)
Australia Women won by 8 wickets
Toss: Australia Women, who chose to field Umpires: AK Chaudhary (India), S Redfern
NOT all hundreds are match winning. Not all necessarily deserve to be. But if ever one did, it was Chamari Atapattu’s record-shattering unbeaten 178 against the world champion Australians.
Yet it was that dominance relative to the rest of her hapless Sri Lankan side that ensured it was never going to b...

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