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Eminent cricketer n UP minister Chetan Chouhan dies of multiple organ failure due to Covid 19

Eminent cricketer, two term member of parliament and home guard minister in Yogi Adityanath ‘s cabinet, seventy three year old Chetan Chouhan breathed his last after suffering from cardiac arrest due to multi organs failure in Gurugram’s super speciality hospital Medanta.

He was corona positive tested on July 11. He was earlier admitted in the Lucknow’s PGI hospital but was later on shifted to Medanta Hospital where he suffered a massive attack today at 4.30 PM today.

He was also MLA from Amroha assembly constituency. Late Chetan Chouhan was on ventilator as his condition became critical. Born in 1947 in Bareilly, 73 year old Chetan Chouhan was an eminent cricketeer. He died due to multi organ failure due to heavy Corona infection and was a comorbid case as he was had several Kidney complications.

In his protracted cricketering career renowned Cricketer Chetan Chouhan played forty tests and seven One Day International cricket matches from 1969 to 1981. He died of multi organ failure after suffering from Covid 19. He was the right hand batsman and a talented bowler who played his debut in 1969 against New Zealand n his last match against the same country in 1981. HIS HIGHEST SCORE IN THE TEST CRICKET was 79 RUNS n scored 17 half centuries. He was the first cricketer to have scored more than 2000 runs without scoring a single century.

The Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath and his entire team expressed their anguish n shock over Chetan Chouhan’s sad demise and prayed for his soul to rest in peace.

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Sunil Negi

Sunil Negi is a senior journalist and president of Uttarakhand Journalists Forum ( Regd). He usually writes on socio political subjects and have been contributing articles in print media for the last several years. Mr. Sunil Negi had been felicitated by All India Achievers conference's Pride of India and excellence awards apart from several other recognitions. He has translated a book on ecological disaster of Uttarakhand of June 2013 and edited and published two editions of Uttaranchal's Who's Who.

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