Karachi, Feb 20 (TNS): Former international cricketer Aamer Hanif’s son committed suicide over non-selection in an Under-19 cricket team.
The grieving father said who represented Pakistan in five ODIs during the 1990s, his son, Mohammad Zaryab, was upset after he was declared too old to be selected for the U-19s.
Zaryab, who was a first-year student at college and Hanif’s oldest son, hanged himself to death the previous day. He said my son was pressurized, he was told he was overage. The coaches’ behaviour towards him forced him to kill himself said Hanif, as he pleaded for “other such sons to be saved” from “such non-cooperative environment.
Zaryab, according to the father, had represented Karachi in an U-19 tournament in Lahore last month, from where he was “sent home over an injury excuse. The teenager had resisted the move, claiming his injury was not serious enough to be sent home for.
