Tripura Cricketer Ayanti Reang Found Dead At Home

In an unfortunate turn of events, Tripura U19 women’s cricket team player, Ayanti Reang, has been found dead at her residence. She was 16. According to a report in local daily ‘Syandan’, the teenager was found hanging from the ceiling of her room on Tuesday night.

The reason behind the death is not known yet. The youngest of four siblings, Ayanti Reang was a member of Tripura’s U19 team for the last one year and also played a T20 tournament for the state in U-23 age group.

She hailed from the Reang tribe from Tainani village under Udaipur sub division, about 90 kilometres from state capital Agartala. Condoling her death, Tripura Cricket Association secretary Timir Chanda said the state has lost an upcoming talent.

“She has been part of the state team from Under-16 days. She was quite promising. The news has left us in deep shock,” Chanda told PTI.

He further said that the player was mentally fine before everything came to a halt due to the coronavirus pandemic.

“She was doing perfectly fine till last season and then everything was closed because of the lockdown. We conducted some online classes but we were not aware about her family problems,” said Chand.

Cricket set to resume soon:

Meanwhile, international cricket will finally return next month with the three-match Test series between England and West Indies. The matches will be played in empty stadiums at bio-secure venues. No international match has taken place since March due to the pandemic all across the world.

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