List of cricketers who were murdered

This is a chronological list of cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

ers who have played in first class cricket, List A, or at a similar level, who were murder

Murder

Murder is the unlawful killing, with malice aforethought, of another human being, and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide...

ed. This does not include those who were killed in war

War

War is a state of organized, armed, and often prolonged conflict carried on between states, nations, or other parties typified by extreme aggression, social disruption, and usually high mortality. War should be understood as an actual, intentional and widespread armed conflict between political...

	Player	Circumstances of death	Date of death	Notes	Player Profile
1	Edward Wright Edward Fortescue Wright Edward Fortescue Wright CMG was a Gloucestershire cricketer who emigrated to the West Indies. He was a right-handed batsman and a round-arm right-hand fast bowler. He was educated at Sydney College, Bath...	Murdered in riots at Jamaica	23 November 1904		http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/14/14969/14969.html
2	Claude Tozer Claude Tozer Claude John Tozer DSO was an Australian medical doctor and first-class cricketer who played for New South Wales. He was the nephew of Australian Test cricketer Percie Charlton....	Shot and killed by his deranged mistress	21 December 1920		http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/australia/content/player/7962.html
3	Robert Makant	Murdered whilst on duty in Kurdistan	18 June 1922		http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/117/117074/117074.html
4	Jeff Stollmeyer Jeff Stollmeyer Jeffrey Baxter Stollmeyer was a Trinidad and Tobago cricketer and footballer. He played 32 Tests for the West Indies, captaining 13 of these....	Shot five times and beaten about the head by intruders at his Port-of-Spain home	10 September 1989	Stollmeyer captained West Indies in 13 Test matches Test cricket Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...	http://content.cricinfo.com/westindies/content/player/52953.html
5	Muni Lal Muni Lal Dhir Muni Lal was an Indian first class cricketer.Lal was a right-hand opening batsman and played his cricket with both Southern Punjab and Northern India. He made five first-class half centuries, with his highest score of 90 made in the 1937-38 Ranji Trophy...	Murdered along with his wife by burglars who broke into his house	8 January 1990	Editor of Crickinia, an early Indian cricket annual, from 1939–44, uncle of Arun Lal Arun Lal Jagdishlal Arun Lal is a retired Indian cricketer, and a cricket commentator.... , Indian high commissioner High Commissioner High Commissioner is the title of various high-ranking, special executive positions held by a commission of appointment.The English term is also used to render various equivalent titles in other languages.-Bilateral diplomacy:... in the West Indies and ambassador Ambassador An ambassador is the highest ranking diplomat who represents a nation and is usually accredited to a foreign sovereign or government, or to an international organization.... in Somalia Somalia Somalia , officially the Somali Republic and formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic under Socialist rule, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. Since the outbreak of the Somali Civil War in 1991 there has been no central government control over most of the country's territory...	http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/39/39984/39984.html
6	Haseeb-ul-Hasan Haseeb-ul-Hasan Haseeb-ul-Hasan was a Pakistani First Class cricketer. He was murdered by an unknown gunman.-References:...	Murdered by an unknown gunman	18 April 1990		http://content-ind.cricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/228713.html
7	William Strydom William Strydom William Thomas Strydom was a South African first-class cricketer who played with Orange Free State in the Currie Cup during the 1960s and 1970s....	Shot during a robbery	20 February 1995		http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/26/26006/26006.html
8	Ashley Harvey-Walker Ashley Harvey-Walker Ashley John Harvey-Walker was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire from 1971 to 1978. He was shot dead in a Johannesburg bar.- Hundred on Debut :...	Shot dead in a Johannesburg Johannesburg Johannesburg also known as Jozi, Jo'burg or Egoli, is the largest city in South Africa, by population. Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa, having the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa... bar	28 April 1997		http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/30/30040/30040.html
9	Nezam Hafiz Nezam Hafiz Nezam Ahmed Hafiz was a Guyanese born American cricketer. Hafiz was a right-handed middle order batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace...	Died in the terrorist attack on New York's World Trade Center	11 September 2001		http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/7/7470/7470.html
10	Mark Parker Mark Parker (cricketer) Mark Moreton Parker was a New Zealand cricketer. He played three matches of first-class cricket for the Otago Volts in the 1996-97, and he also played for South Canterbury in the Hawke Cup....	Killed in the Bali bombings	12 October 2002		http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/newzealand/content/player/38145.html
11	Rahatullah Rahatullah Rahatullah was a Pakistani first-class cricketer.A right-arm seam bowler, Rahatullah played three matches for his home city of Peshawar in the 2007/08 Quaid-i-Azam Trophy...	Shot dead	11 February 2008		http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/pakistan/content/player/259409.html

Possibly murdered cricketers

	Player	Circumstances of death	Date of death	Notes	Player Profile
1	Percy Hardy Percy Hardy Frederick Percy Hardy, born at Blandford Forum, Dorset on 26 June 1880, and died at King's Cross railway station, London, on 9 March 1916, was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Somerset....	Found dead on the floor of a lavatory at King's Cross station with his throat cut and a blood-stained knife by his side.	9 March 1916	Somerset history maintains Hardy committed suicide rather than be sent back to World War I battlefields	http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/3/3600/3600.html
2	Jack Marsh Jack Marsh Jack Marsh was an Australian first-class cricketer of Australian aboriginal descent who represented New South Wales in six matches from 1900–01 to 1902–03. A right-arm fast bowler of extreme pace, Marsh was blessed with high athletic qualities and was regarded as one of the outstanding talents of...	Killed in a street brawl. The assailants were charged with manslaughter but acquitted.	25 May 1916		http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/5/5979/5979.html
3	Rajesh Peter Rajesh Peter Rajesh Peter was an Indian first class cricketer who played for Delhi in the Ranji Trophy. A fast bowler, he played in the 1981-82 Trophy winning side...	Found dead in his flat in New Delhi in suspicious circumstances.	16 November 1995		http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/3/3331/3331.html
4	Tertius Bosch Tertius Bosch Tertius Bosch was a South African cricketer who played in one Test and two ODIs in 1992...	Believed to have died from Guillain-Barre syndrome Guillain-Barré syndrome Guillain–Barré syndrome , sometimes called Landry's paralysis, is an acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy , a disorder affecting the peripheral nervous system. Ascending paralysis, weakness beginning in the feet and hands and migrating towards the trunk, is the most typical symptom... , but post mortem suggested that he was poisoned	14 February 2000		http://content-www.cricinfo.com/southafrica/content/player/44097.html
5	David Hookes David Hookes David William Hookes was an Australian cricketer, broadcaster and coach of the Victorian cricket team. An aggressive left-handed batsman, Hookes usually batted in the middle order...	Died of head injuries after a brawl outside a Melbourne Melbourne Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater... pub. There were claims that it was murder, but the charge that was brought was manslaughter and the person charged—bouncer Zdravko Micevic Zdravko Micevic Zdravko Micevic is a Melbourne-based Australian professional boxer, but is best known for his involvement in the death of former Australian cricketer David Hookes.-David Hookes:... —was found not guilty	9 January 2004		http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/5696.html
6	Bob Woolmer Bob Woolmer Robert Andrew Woolmer was an international cricketer, professional cricket coach and also a professional commentator...	Found dead in his hotel room in Kingston, Jamaica Kingston, Jamaica Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island. It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long sand spit which connects the town of Port Royal and the Norman Manley International Airport to the rest of the island... during the 2007 cricket World Cup 2007 Cricket World Cup The 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup was the ninth edition of the ICC Cricket World Cup tournament that took place in the West Indies from 13 March to 28 April 2007, using the sport's One Day International format... . Originally believed to have been strangled but the investigation returned an open verdict, neither ruling out strangulation or death by natural causes	18 March 2007	Woolmer, a former Test cricketer, was the coach of the Pakistan cricket team at the time of his death	http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/22520.html
7	Nauman Habib	Reportedly a victim of murder	11 October 2011		http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/42129.html

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