Hyderabad: A Hyderabad based cricketer Virendra Naik on Sunday died after smashing a fifty for Marredpally Sporting club against bitter rivals Marredpally Blues in an A-3 Division one-day league match. The match was played at the Marredpally Playground.
The 41-year-old Naik's wife is a homemaker. He has an eight-year-old son and a daughter aged five.
According to the reports in leading Hyderabad based newspaper, Viren’s last rites will be performed at his native place Sawantwadi in Sindhudurg district of Maharashtra. The report also said that for now cardiac arrest is considered the reason behind his sudden demise.
Naik's brother Avinash also confirmed to the police that “he was under medication for chest diseases” and that “there is no foul play involved.”
Talking about Viren, Sporting secretary S. Venkateshwaran said, “It’s sad to lose Viren. He has been playing for our club for seven years and always came across as a very decent and well-behaved family man who kept away from post-match parties. He worked as a team leader at HSBC and was a true sport.”
