Sri Lanka Women’s Team batter Harshiitha Samarawickrama has emerged as a solid technically well equipped perfect copybook stroke maker.

One of the pleasing high attributes in her batting is the calm and composed casual outlook the 26 year old left hander fronts taking strike in the pivotal No.3 slot where she has proved to be quite a playmaker of the side.

She carries credentials of 1075 ODI runs from 41 appearances and 40 innings in a career forged in 2016 versus Australia with a highest of 105 against Ireland in Dublin averaging 30.71.

She turned out to be Sri Lanka’s highest run getter with 203 runs from 5 games scoring 77 and 53 for Sri Lanka Women in the recent ODI Tri Series. Her 77 helped Sri Lanka defeat strong India in a big chase in a total of 278 for 7 in reply to India’s 275 for 9.

Incidentally, Samarawickrama was overall fourth behind top run getter South Africas Annerie Dercksen who led the pack with a highest of 275 with India’s Smriti Mandhana 64 and Jemimah Rodrigues 245 second and third respectively.

She has scored 1527 T20 runs from 72 games and 67 innings with highest of unbeaten 86 with 5 half centuries.