Bronze medal Hettimulla Appuhamilage Shashikala Dedunu Siriwardene in Colombo, known as Shashikala Siriwardene, is a Sri Lankan cricketer and a former captain of the Sri Lankan women's cricket team in WODIs. She is the only woman cricketer to take 100 ODI wickets in WODIs for Sri Lanka. Also she is the only woman cricketer to take 100+ wickets as well as to score 1000+ runs in WODI for Sri Lanka. She is a former student of President's College, Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte.
International career
Siriwardene made her ODI debut against West Indies at Kingstown, St. Vincent in March 2003. She took 2–20 and also scored a brisk 29 in that match, which was ultimately won by the Sri Lankans. Her best bowling figures of 4–11 was recorded against Pakistan in the 2005–06 Women's Asia Cup in Karachi. Other notable performances include her 4–34 also against Pakistan in the 2006–07 Women's Asia Cup. She was ranked World's top women all-rounder in 2014. Siriwardene has captained Sri Lanka Women in 49 WODI matches with 18 wins, 29 losses and 2 no results, and she is the Sri Lankan Women cricketer to captained internationally in most number of times. Instead of her 38.29% winning percentage as captain, she is regarded as the best Women cricketer to play the game for Sri Lanka. Currently, Shashikala is the second highest WODI run scorer for Sri Lanka with 1,554 runs in 87 matches. This includes 7 WODI fifties as well, but yet to get a century. She is the highest WODI wicket taker for Sri Lanka as well, with 101 wickets including 6 four-wicket hauls. With this feat, Siriwardene is the first and only Sri Lankan women cricketer to get 100 wickets in WODI history. In Women T20 Internationals, Siriwardene is second only to former captain Chamari Atapattu in most runs for Sri Lanka Women. She has scored 663 runs in 45 matches with highest score of unbeaten 52 runs. In bowling department, there is no one to match her, where she is top ranked with 44 WT20I wickets with an average of 19.29. Siriwardene has captained T20I side as well with record of 31 matches. Sri Lanka have won 9 of them and lost 20 however with winning percentage of 31.03%. On 1 December 2016, she won the Sri Lanka Cricket awards for the Women’s ODI All Rounder of the Year 2016. During the 2017 ICC Women's Cricket World Cup she set the milestone for becoming the first woman cricketer to play in 100 WODI matches for Sri Lanka. In October 2018, she was named in Sri Lanka's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies. Ahead of the tournament, she was named as one of the players to watch. She was the joint-leading wicket-taker for Sri Lanka in the tournament, with four dismissals in three matches. Following the conclusion of the tournament, she was named as the standout player in the team by the International Cricket Council. In January 2020, she was named in Sri Lanka's squad for the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup in Australia. On 2 March 2020, she announced that she would be retiring from international cricket following the T20 World Cup. She was the leading wicket-taker for Sri Lanka in the tournament, with seven dismissals in four matches.
