21-year-old boy dies while playing cricket in Hyderabad

A 21-year-old boy tragically succumbed to an injury he picked up while playing cricket in Hyderabad. Wajid was playing cricket at Mir Alam Eidgah on Sunday when he got injured. However, he died at a hospital on Tuesday during treatment. The police said that there were several other teams playing at the same venue during the incident.

According to reports, young Wajid was running to take a catch when he injured himself on the right side of his forehead. Since there were others playing on the field, he was unfortunately hit with a bat while attempting to complete the catch.

Bahadurpura police station inspector T Laxminarayana said, “It is not exactly clear how Wajid had got injured. But based on the version of some eyewitnesses, he was running to take a catch and suffered injuries on the right side of his forehead after he was accidentally hit with a bat by some batsman of another team playing on the ground.”

Case registered

As per reports, his brother filed a complaint, and the police initially registered a case under IPC section 324 (voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means), the inspector said. After his death, the case will now be altered to IPC section 304 (II) (culpable homicide not amounting to murder).

“We are probing the case from all angles and efforts are on to trace that batsman also,” the officer added as per DNA.

This incident comes on the back of another tragic incident that rocked Bengal in 2015. Ankit Keshri, a former captain of the Bengal Under-19 team, died in Kolkata three days after a freakish accident on the cricket field. The youngster had collided with his team-mate Sourabh Mondal on while attempting a catch and had been rushed to the hospital after he stopped breathing. In spite of his condition improving, he eventually died of a cardiac arrest. Keshri was just 20 years old.