The
glorious game of Cricket turns nasty and spills blood on the arena sometimes –
sometimes due to intimidating bowling as practised in ‘ bodyline ‘ to West
Indies pacers and Aussies. There have
been accidents on field too, the most recent being that of Phil Hughes
death. Now comes the sad and shocking news of a 21 year old Bengal
Cricketer Ankit Keshri, losing his life !!!
The
21-year old Ankit, a former
Bengal Under-19 cricket captain, sustained a head injury in an on-field
collision during Cricket Association of
Bengal's Division 1 knockout match between East Bengal and Bhowanipore at the
Jadavpur University Campus ground in Kolkata.
Keshri, a right-handed batsman and leg-spinner, came on as a substitute
fielder for his club and collided with his fellow teammate Sourav Mondol as
both players went for a high catch. It was reported that Mondol’s knee hit
Keshri’s back side of neck. After the
injury, Keshri lost his consciousness. Shivsagar Singh, a senior member of the
East Bengal and Bengal team gave him mouth to mouth resuscitation or
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) immediately. Later he was taken to nearby
AMRI hospital. From there he was shifted to Nightingale hospital, where his
condition was stable till Sunday evening. But today morning a cardiac arrest resulted in his
unfortunate death.
Cricinfo
reports that in the penultimate over (44th) of the Bhowanipore innings, Mondal,
who was bowling, rushed to take a catch that was hit towards cover. Keshri was
fielding at deep cover and charged in too. Neither of the two noticed the other
and collided. According to Shibsagar Singh, who was fielding at point, Mondal's
knee crashed into Keshri's head and neck region. As Mondal went down, wincing
in pain, Keshri was lying flat and not breathing. Pranab Nandy, the East Bengal coach, said
there was no negligence as the ground doctor was immediately on the case and
Keshri was transported on a CAB ambulance to the nearby Nightingale Hospital
within 15 minutes.
CAB
treasurer Biswarup Dey said that doctors informed him on Sunday that although
Keshri's condition was stable, he had fever. They were supposed to refer Keshri
to consult specialist doctors on Monday but around midnight on Sunday he had a
"massive" cardiac arrest. Keshri was put on the ventilator but
succumbed early Monday morning.
Only
recently, in an IPL match - Dwayne Bravo and Mohit Sharma collided while
fielding off the final ball of Mumbai Indians' innings at Wankhede Stadium –
and the unsavoury act of an ex-International Captain is not worth mentioning
here.
Thommo,
the slinging fastest was also involved in a crash. Jeffrey Robert Thomson considered by many as
the fastest bowler of all time was the opening partner of Dennis Lillee;
their combination was one of the most fearsome in Test cricket history. In
1975, during a match against the West Indies, he was timed using high-speed
cameras with a speed of 160.45 km/h; one year on in 1976, he was timed at
160.58 km/h again, using conventional radar.
In 1976 at Adelaide, he collided with Alan Turner in attempting a catch
against Pakistan resulting in dislocation of a collarbone.
In 1992, Dhruv Pandove, all of 18
years, a left-hander considered prodigy from Punjab died in a road accident. Ranjit Khanwilkar at 28 was among the hundreds killed in that
Bangalore - Kanyakumari Island Express derailment. Raman Lamba playing club cricket at
Dhaka was hit on the forehead by a full
blooded pull by Mehrab Hossain off left arm spinner Saifullah Khan while
fielding at forward short leg, without a helmet. He suffered an internal hemorrhage and
slipped into coma, eventually died after 3 days.
Sad and shocking to read of the
untimely demise of young Ankit Keshri
20th April 2015.
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