Chamari Athapaththu would do anything to get Sri Lanka to the semi-final of this Women's ODI World Cup . No Sri Lanka team has managed this over 11 years, at an ICC event, and the women's team has never got there. Athapaththu has long been the talisman of this side, but feels she has the young players in her side now, who can excel in their own right.

"More than in the other tournaments, I'm pretty relaxed in this one," Athapaththu said in Colombo. "The youngsters have been performing - Harshitha Samarawickrama , Vishmi Gunaratne , and Kavisha Dilhari , are all batting well. So more than other times, I'm able to relax a bit."

Gunaratne, Dilhari, and Samarawickrama had all played important roles in Sri Lanka's chart to an Asia Cup victory at home, though that was in the T20 for

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