Aspiring British cricketer shot dead


Port of Spain (Trinidad), April 12 (IANS): An aspiring British cricketer, Adrian St. John, died after being shot by robbers.

The 22-year-old is said to have died on Sunday. He used to play for the Chris Gayle Academy in London.

Adrian was attacked after he decided to stop his car to pick up friends. He was shot as he tried to drive away after being robbed, reported BBC on Tuesday.

West Indies cricketer Gayle tweeted on Monday: "Such sad news to hear. My condolences to his family & friends. Adrian St John was the captain of the academy. #Sigh."

Donovan Miller, programme manager for the Chris Gayle Foundation, was quoted as saying by the BBC on Monday: "I'm really finding it hard to come to terms with it, how someone could do something like that to such a lovely person."

"He wanted me to support him to go to the Caribbean and to kind of push hard with his cricket."

  

Top Stories


Leave a Comment

Title: Aspiring British cricketer shot dead



You have 2000 characters left.

Disclaimer:

Please write your correct name and email address. Kindly do not post any personal, abusive, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent, discriminatory or unlawful or similar comments. Daijiworld.com will not be responsible for any defamatory message posted under this article.

Please note that sending false messages to insult, defame, intimidate, mislead or deceive people or to intentionally cause public disorder is punishable under law. It is obligatory on Daijiworld to provide the IP address and other details of senders of such comments, to the authority concerned upon request.

Hence, sending offensive comments using daijiworld will be purely at your own risk, and in no way will Daijiworld.com be held responsible.