{"id":571,"date":"2025-09-19T18:39:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T18:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/?p=571"},"modified":"2025-09-19T18:39:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T18:39:05","slug":"asia-cup-2025-sri-lankan-cricketer-dunith-wellalages-father-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/?p=571","title":{"rendered":"Asia Cup 2025. Sri Lankan cricketer Dunith Wellalage\u2019s father dies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Suranga Wellalage, father of Sri Lankan cricketer Dunith Wellalage, has died in Colombo, reportedly from a heart attack.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dunith Wellalage, aged 22, currently represents Sri Lanka in the Asia Cup in the United Arab Emirates. He is considered one of the nation\u2019s most promising young cricketers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier today, Wellalage played in Sri Lanka\u2019s Asia Cup match against Afghanistan in Abu Dhabi. In the final over, he was hit for five consecutive sixes by Afghanistan\u2019s Mohammad Nabi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suranga Wellalage, father of Sri Lankan cricketer Dunith Wellalage, has died in Colombo, reportedly from a heart attack. Dunith Wellalage, aged 22, currently represents Sri Lanka in the Asia Cup in the United Arab Emirates. He is considered one of the nation\u2019s most promising young cricketers. Earlier today, Wellalage played in Sri Lanka\u2019s Asia Cup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}