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Explosive half-century from the Sri Lankan batsman. (Photo- PTI)

Sri Lanka women's team faced New Zealand in the 15th match of ICC Women's World Cup 2025. In this match played at R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo, a Sri Lankan batsman played a record-breaking innings. This player showed great class to New Zealand's bowling and made it rain runs, due to which the Sri Lankan team was successful in putting a big score on the board.

Explosive half century of Sri Lankan batsman

Sri Lanka won the toss in this match and decided to bat first. During this, Sri Lankan captain Chamri Atapattu and Vishami Gunaratne were successful in giving a strong start to the team. Vishmi Gunaratne scored 42 runs and Chamri Atapattu played a brilliant inning of 53 runs. Then Hasini Perera contributed 44 runs. However, the team lost 4 wickets at the score of 188 runs. After this, Nilakshi de Silva entered the crease and hit fours and sixes.

Nilakshi de Silva faced only 28 balls in this innings and scored unbeaten 55 runs at a strike rate of 196.42. His innings included 7 fours and 1 six. Due to which the Sri Lankan team managed to score 258 runs at the loss of 6 wickets in 50 overs. Let us tell you, during this period, Nilakshi de Silva completed her half-century in just 26 balls, which is the fastest half-century of the Women's World Cup 2025. Apart from him, no player has been able to score a half-century in less than 30 balls in this edition.

1000 ODI runs also completed

Nilakshi de Silva also completed 1000 runs in her ODI career during this innings. He achieved this feat in 51 matches. Apart from this, she has also played 103 T20 matches for Sri Lanka, in which she has scored 1151 runs.