Ladies’s Premier League aspect UP Warriorz on Friday introduced that English quick bowler Lauren Bell had withdrawn from the upcoming season and named Sri Lanka’s Chamari Athapaththu as a substitute.
“Among the many strongest hitters within the recreation, the Lankan captain can be probably the most skilled gamers, having featured in over 120 T20Is. Recognized for her attacking batting, Chamari is the one Lankan girl to have scored a century in T20Is. She has been signed for her base value of Rs 30 lakh,” the WPL mentioned in a press release.
Athapaththu is the the Sri Lanka girls’s workforce captain and was unsold in the course of the WPL 2024 auctions which got here as a shock to many as a consequence of her kind within the shortest format in 2023. Final 12 months, she scored 470 runs in 16 T20Is and picked eight wickets.
NEWS – @UPWarriorz identify Chamari Athapaththu as substitute for Lauren Bell.
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— Ladies’s Premier League (WPL) (@wplt20) January 26, 2024
She had additionally led Sri Lanka to a historic first-time collection win over England and completed the collection because the main scorer and the joint-leading wicket-taker.
Within the Ladies’s Large Bash League, she was named the participant of the match whereas representing Sydney Thunder. She was the second-highest run-scorer with 552 runs and snapped up 9 wickets.
In the meantime, the second version of the WPL will probably be staged in Bangalore and Delhi, the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) had confirmed on Wednesday as they introduced the schedule of the upcoming season. Whereas the primary half of the season shall be performed in Bangalore, the ultimate 11 video games together with the Eliminator and the ultimate shall be hosted in Delhi.
The brand new season of the five-team league will kickstart from February 23, with final 12 months’s two finalists – Mumbai Indians and Delhi Capitals – getting us underway on the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore.
With the top-ranked aspect on the finish of the 20 league stage video games getting a move by way of to the ultimate, the Eliminator will probably be performed between the second and third positioned aspect to determine the second finalist on March 15, adopted by the summit conflict on March 17.
The primary-season of the WPL was hosted in Mumbai, with all the video games both performed on the DY Patil Stadium or the Brabourne Stadium.