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Indian cricketer Rinku Singh's father, Khanchand Singh, passed distant astatine a infirmary successful Greater Noida aboriginal connected Friday (February 27, 2026) pursuing a prolonged illness, household sources said.
Dr. Sunil Kumar, spokesperson of Yatharth Hospital successful Greater Noida, wherever the cricketer's begetter was admitted, said Khanchand Singh was battling liver cancer.
"His information had deteriorated importantly successful caller days, pursuing which helium had been admitted to the infirmary connected February 21. He was placed connected ventilator enactment and breathed his past aboriginal this morning," Kumar said.
Due to his father's captious condition, Rinku had to instrumentality location midway done the T20 World Cup. However, helium rejoined the Indian squad up of the lucifer against Zimbabwe connected February 26. He had besides precocious visited Noida to conscionable his father.
Rinku's erstwhile coach, Masood Amini, told PTI Videos successful Aligarh that Khanchand Singh had been battling advanced-stage liver crab and was successful the terminal signifier of the illness.
"He had been unwell for rather immoderate time. He was suffering from liver cancer. For the past 3 to 4 days, helium was connected ventilator support," Amini said.
Amini said Rinku's begetter worked tirelessly to enactment his household and amended his children.
"He started retired moving arsenic a state cylinder transportation antheral and worked precise hard to rise his family," helium said.
The 28-year-old cricketer, a nonmigratory of Aligarh territory successful Uttar Pradesh, credits overmuch of his occurrence to his father. Khanchand Singh, who worked successful state cylinder organisation successful Aligarh, supported his son's imagination of becoming a cricketer despitefacing fiscal hardships.
The household said Khanchand Singh's past rites volition beryllium performed successful Aligarh, and Rinku volition be the funeral.
