Cricket Match Turns Fatal As Umpire Stabbed To Death Over ‘Wrong Decision’

Cuttack: Cricket ground turned into a battlefield as an umpire was stabbed to death for reportedly giving a wrong decision.

The incident took place at Manhisalanda village under Choudwar police limits in Cuttack district on Sunday.

The deceased has been identified as Lucky Rout, a resident of Manhisalanda village.

According to sources, During a cricket tournament in Manhisalanda village, two teams got involved in a verbal duel over the wrong decision of the umpire.

The verbal altercation turned into bloody violence when a youth, identified as Samutiranjan Rout of Dalijoda Brahmapur village lost his cool and attacked Lucky with a knife.

Local people immediately rescued a profusely bleeding Lucky and rushed him to SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack. However, the doctors there declared him received dead.