LUCKNOW, Oct. 8 -- Four tennis ball-cricket players were killed and two others injured after their seven-seater car rammed into the rear of a truck on the Purvanchal Expressway in Sultanpur early Wednesday; police suspect the driver may have dozed off. Sultanpur circle officer (CO), Baldirai, Ashutosh Kumar said the accident occurred around 5am in the Baldirai police station area when the players were returning to Deoria from Lucknow after participating in a tennis-cricket match in the Bakshi Ka Talab (BKT) area. Police said the car was apparently travelling at around 100 kmph when it crashed into the truck. The injured were taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital, where three were declared dead. Three injured persons were subsequently referred to Ayodhya Medical College, where another succumbed to his injuries. The deceased were identified as Nitya Prajapati, 22, Irfan Ansari, 20, Aniket Singh, 24, and Anand Yadav, 24. The injured were identified as Rajeev Yadav, 22, from Deoria and Jayanto Sharma, 30, from Birbhum district of West Bengal. One of their team members, Pawan Chaurasia, who was travelling in another vehicle, informed the local police that eleven players from different parts of Deoria had travelled to BKT in Lucknow on Monday night to play a tennis-cricket tournament as members of the Deoria tennis-cricket team. After the match, the players began their return journey in different vehicles. Jayanto Sharma, one of the injured, said the occupants were asleep when the crash occurred. "We were sleeping. The impact woke us up. We saw that our car had rammed into the truck. Our companions were covered in blood. Passers-by broke open the doors and pulled us out," Sharma said....