Kolkata: A pall of gloom descended on the Kolkata Maidan after the tragic death of talented Bengal batsman Ankit Keshri who passed away this morning owing to a cardiac arrest after a head injury sustained during a Cricket Association of Bengal's Senior one-day knock-out match on April 17.


Ankit Keshri. Pic/PTI 

Youngest of the three siblings of a tea stall owner Raj Kumar in Paddapukur, the East Bengal opening batsman was not even in the playing XI but as fate would have it, Keshri had replaced Arnab Nandi in the previous over before the fatal collision with Sourav Mondal in their match against Bhowanipore at the JU second campus ground in Saltlake.