Athapaththu to leave WPL ahead of schedule to play for Sri Lanka

Chamari Athapaththu is set to miss the last period of the WPL for UP Warriorz (UPW) to join Sri Lanka on a white-ball visit through New Zealand beginning Walk 4 in Napier. Athapaththu's takeoff will be the second large blow for UPW who are now without their full-time skipper Alyssa Healy in light of injury. Cricket has discovered that at this point, Athapaththu will be accessible for UPW until February 26, which is four additional games for them, before she watches out for public obligations. After their game on February 26, against Mumbai Indians in Bengaluru, UPW will travel to Lucknow for the last association period of the competition where they will play three home matches. They have played only one game up until this point and they avoided Athapaththu with regard to the XI in that conflict they lost to Gujarat Monsters. Athapaththu was named skipper of Sri Lanka's 16-part side delivered by SLC on Monday and the crew is booked to leave for New Zealand on February 22 for three ODIs and as a huge number. Allrounder Amelia Kerr is the main New Zealand player in the WPL this season and she, in contrast to Athapaththu, will miss the two-sided series one month from now to play the whole WPL, including the knockouts on the off chance that MI fit the bill for those once more. In the event that MI come to the last, booked for Walk 15, Kerr will likewise miss the initial two T20is opened for Walk 14 and 16 in Christchurch. Last year as well, Kerr had skirted the home two-sided T20Is against Britain to be accessible for the whole term of the WPL. In 2024, the schedule conflict between the last leg of WPL and the T20I series in New Zealand had turned into a lot greater issue when Britain commander Heather Knight (RCB) and Lauren Chime (UPW) had quit WPL totally to address their public group. Incidentally, Athapaththu had substituted Chime for UPW then. Notwithstanding, from that point forward sheets like the ECB have guaranteed their players they won't plan worldwide games during the WPL, which is set to move from the ongoing February-Walk window to January-February 2026 onwards, as per the new ladies' Future Visits Program (FTP). To stay away from such conflicts between worldwide series and other T20 associations, the Hundred (August) and the WBBL (November) have additionally been given separate windows in the FTP that runs till 2029.