On Sunday, Sri Lankan women’s team skipper, Chamari Athapaththu grabbed a lot of eyeballs by smashing a record-breaking century in the first T20I of the three-match series against Australian Women’s team. Despite the heroics of their captain with the bat, Sri Lanka women lost the game by 41 runs at the North Sydney Oval in Sydney.

However, in all of Athapaththu’s fireworks in Sydney, an unusual incident during the coin toss as the two captains of their respective teams take the center stage. But it was quite unusual when the Australian women’s team making the bizarre decision of calling in a substitute coin tosser. Australian skipper, Meg Lanning took a step back and called in teammate Alyssa Healy to do the honors. Incredibly, Healy won the toss and a smiling Lanning, who was standing right next to her, decided to bat.

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At the toss, the Australian skipper justified her bizarre decision. She said, “I’ll take that one. I’m not sure if you’ve heard but I have got a pretty bad record with the coin toss and Alyssa Healy has been talking herself up and she’s delivered.” Here is the video of the incident: 

Just when you think you've seen it all! #AUSvSL pic.twitter.com/eaKpDnW3jr

— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) September 30, 2019

Lanning has been quite unsuccessful with a toss as she had won just one toss on Australia’s recent tour of the West Indies. This is not the first time that such an incident has taken place on a cricket field. In a T20I against Zimbabwe last year, then South African skipper, Faf du Plessis made the decision of sending JP Duminy for the coin toss. What was more bizarre about that incident was the fact that Duminy was not even in the playing XI for the match.

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Meanwhile, Athapaththu made two records on Sunday as she became the first Sri Lankan woman to score a T20I century and the only women’s team captain to reach the magical three-figure mark during a chase. She scored 113 runs off 66 balls, including 12 boundaries and six sixes.

The second Australia Women vs Sri Lanka Women second T20I will be played at the same ground in Sydney on Monday.