An 11-year-old schoolboy from Joyramkura village in Haluaghat upazila, Mymensingh was killed after being hit with a cricket stump on Friday evening.
Shaheen, the son of Joynal Abedin, was a class four student at Joyramkura Government Primary School.
Md Musfiqur Rahman, the officer in charge of Haluaghat police station, said local boys played a cricket match in the evening of Friday at the school's ground.
After the match, Shaheen who did not participate, came to the playground to get his stumps back. But Rashidul Islam, 18, of the same village and a second year student of Haluaghat Shaheed Smriti Degree College, wanted to keep the stumps.
A quarrel began between the two and Rashidul hit Shaheen on the head with a stump, leaving him critically injured.
The boy was first rushed to Haluaghat Upazila Health Complex and later to Mymensingh Medical College and Hospital (MMCH) after his condition deteriorated. He died at around 9pm Friday.
The body was sent to the MMCH morgue for an autopsy.
According to police, Rashidul fled the scene after the incident and a case has been lodged against him.