Rohtak, Dec. 4 -- Budding players have flagged lapses in maintenance and basic facilities at Rohtak's Rajiv Gandhi Sports Complex and Sir Chhotu Ram Stadium, weeks after two teenage basketball players died in separate incidents due to collapse of rusted iron poles on basketball courts in Rohtak and Bahadurgarh.

Hardik Rathi, 16, who had participated in the national sub-junior basketball championship, died in Rohtak's Lakhan Majra on November 6 after an iron pole supporting the basketball hoop crashed onto him during practice. A day earlier, 15-year-old Aman from Jhajjar lost his life in Bahadurgarh in a similar accident. The twin tragedies have renewed scrutiny on the deteriorating condition of government sports infrastructure in the sta...