Indian Under-17 cricketer drowns in hotel swimming pool in Sri Lanka

A budding cricket talent was tragically snuffed out as a 12-year-old Indian cricketer drowned in the swimming pool of a hotel in Sri Lanka on Wednesday. Monath Sona Narendra, who hailed from Gujarat, was part of the 19-member team who has gone to the island nation to play an Under-17 tournament. According to a report on Sri Lankan newspaper Daily Mirror, the schoolboy was swimming with four of his teammates before drowning in a beach-side resort in Pamunugama, Negombo (37 kilometres north of Colombo). He was pronounced dead on admission at the Pamunugama Hospital. A report on newsfirst.lk mentioned Katunayake Investment Promotion Zone as the organisers of the event, adding that the postmortem was to be conducted at the Ragama Hospital. According to reports, the boy and two others had gone to the pool against the orders of the team management. Their game had been affected by rain and the boys were asked to stay in their hotel rooms. According to Colombo Gazette, Villa Palma hotel in Pamunugama is the resort where the incident took place. With inputs from PTI