A Gampaha businessman who had placed a bet on the premise that India was certain to win the T-20 World Cup final died of a heart attack when he found that India had lost the match.
 
He was rushed to the Gampaha Hospital but was dead at the time of his admission. Gampaha City Coroner P.P.R.P. Rajapakse held the postmortem examination and ruled that the cause of death was a severe cardiac failure.

Meanwhile the businessman’s wife said her husband had not suffered from any major ailment before. (Tony Karunanayake)