Deepika Rasangika

Deepika Rasangika (born 13 December 1983) is a Sri Lankan cricketer who now plays for the Bahrain women's cricket team.^[1][2]

Deepika Rasangika

Personal information
Born	(1983-12-13) 13 December 1983 (age 41) Colombo, Sri Lanka
Batting	Left-handed
International information
National sides	Sri Lanka (2008–2014) Bahrain (2022)
ODI debut (cap 40)	2 May 2008  Sri Lanka v Pakistan
Last ODI	23 January 2014  Sri Lanka v India
T20I debut (cap 9/9)	12 June 2009  Sri Lanka v Pakistan
Last T20I	22 June 2022  Bahrain v Bhutan
Career statistics
Competition WODI WT20I Matches 31 35 Runs scored 473 496 Batting average 18.19 22.54 100s/50s 0/2 1/0 Top score 84 161* Balls bowled 102 202 Wickets 4 11 Bowling average 20.50 18.36 5 wickets in innings 0 0 10 wickets in match 0 0 Best bowling 4/38 3/9 Catches/stumpings 9/– 6/–
Source: Cricinfo, 22 June 2022

Rasangika played in more than 60 matches for the Sri Lanka women's cricket team from 2008 to 2014.^[3] She was named in Sri Lanka's squad for the 2009 Women's Cricket World Cup.^[4][5]

Rasangika moved to Bahrain in 2017 to take up a position at a local coaching academy.^[6]

In March 2022, she was named in Bahrain's squad for the 2022 GCC Women's Gulf Cup in Oman.^[7] She made her Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) debut for Bahrain against Oman, in the opening match of that tournament.^[8] On 22 March 2022, in Bahrain's match against Saudi Arabia, Rasangika scored 161 not out.^[9] She became the first cricketer for Bahrain to score a century in WT20Is,^[10] as well as racking up the highest individual score in a WT20I match.^[11][12]