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Harshitha Samarawickrama Replaces Meg Lanning
Harshitha Samarawickrama. Source: x.com

Harshitha Samarawickrama Replaces Meg Lanning

Sri Lankan batter Harshitha Samarawickrama has stepped in to replace the injured Meg Lanning at Trinbago Knight Riders for the 2024 Women's Caribbean Premier League (WCPL).

Samarawickrama, a left-handed top-order batter, will join Shikha Pandey, Jemimah Rodrigues, and Jess Jonassen as the other international players in the Knight Riders' squad. She becomes only the second Sri Lankan woman to participate in an overseas league, following in the footsteps of Chamari Athapaththu.

The decision to bring in Samarawickrama comes at a time when her reputation is rapidly rising. She was named Player of the Final after scoring an unbeaten 69 off 51 balls, leading Sri Lanka to their first title in the Women's Asia Cup 2024. She continued her impressive form with consecutive fifties in the T20I series against Ireland and made history by becoming the third Sri Lankan woman to score an ODI century with her 105 against the same team. In total, she has amassed 1,463 runs in 65 T20Is, boasting a strike rate of 99.72.

Meanwhile, Lanning recently competed in The Hundred, where her team, London Spirit, claimed the title. However, Lanning herself struggled to find form, scoring 170 runs in ten innings at a strike rate of 125.

The Knight Riders are set to kick off their WCPL 2024 campaign against Barbados Royals in Tarouba.

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