Sri Lanka Spinner Dunith Wellage Father Death: The happiness of going to Super-4 in Asia Cup 2025 turned into mourning when the Sri Lankan spinner’s father died and had to leave the Asia Cup in the middle.
Sri lanka vs Afghanistan match: The Asia Cup was a match between Afghanistan and Sri Lanka on Thursday, 18 September in 2025. In this match, Sri Lanka won by 6 wickets and qualified for Super 4 while being invincible in this series. However, the victory of the Sri Lankan team turned into grief when the father of the team’s star spinner Dunith Vellage passed away. He got the news of his father’s death in the match against Afghanistan. This player was disappointed at the time of Sri Lanka’s victory, as he lost his father.
Sri Lankan player’s father dies
22 years old Sri Lanka Suranga Vellalege, father of Ki spinner Dunith Vellalege, died in Colombo. At that time his son Vellage was playing a match against Afghanistan in Abu Dhabi. It is being told that he was told by the Sri Lankan team manager after the match. After this, he immediately left the team and reached his family. This sad incident also faded three consecutive wins in the Asia Cup due to this sad incident.
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Will Dunith Vellage be able to play further matches
Along with qualifying in Super four, Sri Lanka is to face Bangladesh on 20 September, Pakistan on 23 September and India on 26 September. But Sri Lankan spinner Dunith Vellage is not yet confirmed to play, in this difficult time the entire Sri Lanka team is with him.
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Such innings played against Afghanistan
Let us know that in the Asia Cup 2025 match against Afghanistan, Dunith Vellage played his fifth T20 International and first Asia Cup match. Initially, he was seen struggling with the game and proved to be expensive. He took one wicket for 49 runs in four overs. Mohammad Nabi hit five sixes in his last over. However, Sri Lanka batted well and defeated Afghanistan by 6 wickets. The Afghanistan team, who came out to bat first, gave a target of 170 runs to Sri Lanka, which completed it in 18.4 overs.