Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Steve Smith, Marnus Labuschagne, Glenn Maxwell… this line of great batsmen is long, who fill the waters in front of the bowler about whom we are going to talk. His international career is only 2 years old, his age is also only 21 years, but he guides famous batsmen to the pavilion as if he is playing for his left hand. We are talking about Sri Lankan left arm spinner Dunithe Vellalaghe, who reminded the West Indies team of their grandmother in the match played in Dambulla on 15 October.

Dunithe Vellalaghe heavy on West Indies' hopes

The second match of the T20 series played in Dambulla was important for Sri Lanka. Batting first in this important match, Sri Lanka scored 162 runs for 5 wickets in 20 overs. That is, West Indies got the target of 163 runs to win. Seeing the way the Caribbean team chased the target of 180 runs in the first T20, they had the upper hand in the second T20 also. But, those hopes related to West Indies were shattered by the spin of Dunithe Vellalaghe.

Dunithe Vellalaghe took wickets of West Indies' top order.

Dunithe Vellalaghe did what was most important for the Sri Lankan team in the second T20 against West Indies. The 21-year-old spinner, making his T20I debut in this match, attacked the Caribbean top order and defeated everyone one after the other. Wellalage took the first wicket of Brendan King. After this, in his next over he made Roston Chase a victim. He took the third and last wicket of Andre Fletcher.

Did a great job on T20I debut

Dunithe Vellalaghe took the wickets of these three West Indies batsmen in 4 overs of bowling. He took all three wickets for just 9 runs. Meaning, on his T20 International debut, he took 3 wickets for 9 runs in 4 overs. After losing the wickets of its three big batsmen in just 7 overs, the West Indies team could never get back on track and were all out for 89 runs. In this way Sri Lanka won the match by 73 runs. Vellalaghe could not become the hero of the victory i.e. player of the match on his T20I debut. But his performance was not less than that standard.

It has been an old habit to dismiss the scoundrels.

It was not surprising to see Vellallage dismissing the formidable West Indies batsmen on his T20I debut because he was already used to it. Among Indian batsmen, he has dismissed Rohit, Virat, Gill, KL Rahul and Hardik Pandya in a single ODI match. Among other batsmen of the world, he has dismissed greats like Steve Smith, David Warner, Glenn Maxwell and Marnus Labuschagne.