The Umpire strikes back

From the "strange but true" department, Fox Sports reports:

A cricket umpire killed a teenage spectator in Bangladesh by hitting him on the head with a bat in a dispute over a contested decision, police said on Sunday.

Nazrul Islam, 15, ran onto the pitch during an amateur game in the remote northern district of Kishoreganj and started an argument with the umpire, who took one of the players' bats and hit the teenager.

Islam showed no serious injury from the blow during the game on Friday but suffered an internal hemorrhage overnight and died in the hospital the following day, local police chief Mosharraf Hossain said.

"The two argued over a not-out decision by the umpire," Hossain said.

"He accused the umpire of bias. At one stage, the umpire became angry, took a bat and hit the young boy on the head."

The umpire was being sought for questioning but had gone into hiding, he added.

Now during our years as an umpire, there were certainly times where we would have gladly dealt to a recalitrant player, but they were generally bigger than us, so we resisted the temptation. What is reported above though does seem to be an extreme response from the umpire, and it might just put his fitness for the job in question.