kolkata a 20yearold east bengal cricketer ankit keshri died of brain swelling and haemorrhage on monday three days after colliding with a teammate while attempting a catch at the jadavpur university salt lake campus ground ankit was not part of the playing xi and had come in as a substitute minutes before the freak accident he collided with bowler sourav mondal who was also trying to catch the ball souravs knee hit the back of an kits neck and knocked him unconscious ankit stopped breathing for a few seconds and was revived by fellowcricketers and rushed to hospital doc tors said his family took ankit home even before all tests could be conducted when his condition deteriorated he was rushed to anoth er hospital on sunday the 20yearold a talented righthander had captained the bengal u19 team in the cooch behar trophy and was in the 30member india u19 probables list for the 2014 colts world cup twentyyearold east bengal cricketer ankit keshri who died of brain swelling and haemorrhage on monday three days after colliding with a teammate on the field also played for bengal a u25 side in the ck nayudu national championship the youngsters death left the citys sporting fraternity shockedit reminded many of the onfield death of australian cricketer phil hughes who had been hit on the back of his head by a short ball from sean abbott last november recalling the accident ankits teammate shiv sagar singh who was playing in the match against bhawanipore said ankit had dropped on the ground after the collision and was not moving when i rushed to him i saw ankit had stopped breathing and his eyes had rolled over i immediately gave him a mouthtomouth resuscitation following which he started breathing again we rushed him to an ambulance parked near the dressingroom which drove him to amri hospital there was no delay said singh an mri and ct scan at the amri hospital apparently revealed no hemorrhage we had recommended two more tests mri angiography and carotin doppler to check his brain condition he had fever and was drowsy we wanted to keep him under observation as the diagnosis was incomplete but his family members insisted on shifting him out so we didnt get a chance to conduct the tests said rupak barua ceo amri hospital he added that tests at amri didnt find any swelling in the brain ankits family signed a discharge on risk bond to move him out of amri right after admission at nightingale hospital around 830 pm on sunday a ct scan was taken which showed bleeding spots in the brain given the critical condition of the patient neurosurgeon buddhadeb saha and arpan chaudhuri critical care expert decided to shift the patient to the icu the fact that he had fever itself was an indication of pontine hemorrhage he was being administered medicines to reduce the swelling of the brain hemorrhage and convulsions said dr chaudhuri but ankit became