Councillor KOs bystander at cricket nets event

A BIRMINGHAM city councillor ‘knocked out’ a bystander during the official opening of new cricket facilities at a city park on Monday.

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Cricket fan and cabinet member for transport and the environment, Councillor Majid Mahmood, accidentally struck a ball into a watching group of dignitaries at the launch of a four-lane cricket nets facility at Sparkhill Park.

The ball travelled beyond the nets into a crowd of bystanders, striking one woman on the back of the head.

She went down and required urgent first aid as a result. Eyewitnesses said she was briefly unconscious as a result of the blow.