Sachini Dayaratne, the cricket captain of St.Anthony’s Girls School, Katugastota has come out with flying colours at the G.C.E (A.L.) examination obtaining three ‘A’ passes for Economics, Business Studies and Accountacy.
Sachini started her cricket career in the year 2012 under the coaching of Susantha Basnayake, a Level II Cricket Coach. From the start she played softball as well as leather ball cricket and she claimed 3 wickets for 20 runs against Pindeniya Central School, at the All Island Division II Cricket Tournament organized by the Sri Lanka Schools Cricket Association.She was adjudged the Best Woman Cricketer in 2016 and 2017 at the Cricket Tournament organized by the Department of Education,Kandy.
In the year 2018 she was adjudged the Best player in the ‘Big Match’ against Nugawela Central School when she scored 47 runs and she was selected to the Development Squad of Sri Lanka Cricket in 2018. She scored her first century in a hard ball match against Nuwara-Eliya District when she scored 102 and Sachini went up on the ladder of success when she bagged a fine double in a Division Two Tournament match when she scored 17 runs and bagged 4 wickets against Pelawatte Navodya Vidyalaya in 2019. She had an all-round performance against Maliyadewa Girls School,Kurunegala and scored 47 runs and claimed 4 wickets for 38 runs She is a right hand batswoman and a right-arm off-spinner. Sachini led her side to emerge third in the Girls Schools Cricket Tournament and received a promotion to play in the Division One Girls Tournament from the year 2019.
She is thankful to her coach, Susantha Basnayake and the Teacher-in-charge, Wasanthi Jinadasa for the guidance given to her. Her ambition is to become a Chartered Accountant while continuing to play cricket to come up-to the national level.
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