Hotel staff terminated after cricketer drank phenyl

December 08, 2012 16:20

The staff of a Bangalore hotel was expelled after the captain of the Pakistan blind T20 team, who is partially visually impaired, accidentally drank diluted phenyl, which was kept in a plastic bottle on a table where usually mineral water bottle is kept, reports NDTV.

The player, Zeeshan Abbasi, who is in Bangalore to play for the first World T20 Cricket Tournament for the visually impaired, has been admitted to M S Ramaiah hospital where he has been treated. "He is was all right now," Mahantesh, organising secretary of the Cricket Association for the Blind, Bangalore, told PTI.

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