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Bangladesh player beaten to death with stump-Cricket

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Bangladeshi relatives of teenage cricketer Babul Shikdar, 16, who died after allegedly being beaten by a batsman during a friendly cricket match, react at their home in Dhaka on May 11, 2016.

A teenage cricketer in Bangladesh was allegedly killed by a stump-wielding batsman after he taunted the umpire over a no-ball delivery, police said yesterday.

Sixteen-year-old Babul Shikdar was wicketkeeping during a neighbourhood match with friends in the capital Dhaka on Wednesday when the batsman was given out, local police chief Bhuiyan Mahboob Hasan said.

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