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INSANE: Local cricketers down bats in memory of killed teen - The Real Truth

The cricket community continues to pay tribute to Ben Austin, fatally injured during practice. (PR IMAGE PHOTO)

Community cricketers will lay down their bats in memory of a budding player killed in a freak training accident, as a wave of grief washes over the sport. 

Ben Austin, 17, died on Thursday, two days after he was struck in the neck by a ball while batting in the nets in Ferntree Gully in Melbourne's east.

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