{"id":493490,"date":"2025-10-12T11:49:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T11:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/493490\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T11:49:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T11:49:21","slug":"athapaththu-returns-to-bat-after-cwc25-injury-scare-icc-womens-cricket-world-cup-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/493490\/","title":{"rendered":"Athapaththu returns to bat after CWC25 injury scare | ICC Women&#8217;s Cricket World Cup, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having been stretchered off the pitch during the sixth over of Sri Lanka&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/womens-cricket-worldcup-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ICC Women\u2019s Cricket World Cup 2025<\/a> chase against England, Sri Lanka captain Chamari Athapaththu made a return with the bat later in the innings.<\/p>\n<p>The Sri Lanka skipper was seen limping while taking a run earlier during their chase of 254 at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo.<\/p>\n<p>The team physio would rush in to tend to the 35-year-old as she lay on her back at the non-striker\u2019s end.<\/p>\n<p>Soon afterwards, with the game on a stoppage and Athapaththu unable to continue, she was stretchered off the pitch. The batter was unbeaten on seven when she was taken off the field.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/womens-cricket-worldcup-2025\/official-broadcasters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Broadcast Details for the ICC Women&#8217;s Cricket World Cup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having been stretchered off the pitch during the sixth over of Sri Lanka&#8217;s ICC Women\u2019s Cricket World Cup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,145387,145385,56086,145400,145396,145399,145397,11096,145398,145395,145401,145407,145406,145388,2192,145405,145390,145389,30566,145393,145394,145403,79,145402,145404,145392,145386,145391,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-493490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-cricket-breaking-news","10":"tag-cricket-headlines-today","11":"tag-cricket-live-score","12":"tag-cricket-match-highlights-today","13":"tag-cricket-match-live-streaming-score","14":"tag-cricket-match-result-today","15":"tag-cricket-match-today-live","16":"tag-cricket-news","17":"tag-cricket-results-today","18":"tag-cricket-scorecard-live","19":"tag-cricket-series-updates","20":"tag-cricket-world-cup-live-score","21":"tag-cricket-world-cup-news","22":"tag-cricket-world-news","23":"tag-icc","24":"tag-icc-cricket-updates","25":"tag-international-cricket-live-score","26":"tag-international-cricket-news","27":"tag-latest-cricket-news","28":"tag-latest-cricket-scores","29":"tag-live-cricket-match-update","30":"tag-odi-cricket-live-score","31":"tag-sports","32":"tag-t20-cricket-live-score","33":"tag-test-cricket-live-score","34":"tag-today-cricket-live-score","35":"tag-today-cricket-news-update","36":"tag-todays-cricket-match-score","37":"tag-uk","38":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}