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This is a chronological list of cricketers who have played in first class cricket, List A, or at a similar level, who were murdered. This does not include those who were killed in wars.
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Player |
Circumstances of death |
Date of death |
Notes |
Player Profile
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Percy Hardy |
"Found dead on the floor of a lavatory at King's Cross station with his throat cut" [1] |
March 9, 1916 |
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[1]
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Claude Tozer |
"Shot and killed by his deranged mistress" [2] [3] |
December 21, 1920 |
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[2]
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Robert Makant |
"Murdered whilst on duty in Kurdistan" [4] |
June 18, 1922 |
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[3]
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Jeff Stollmeyer |
"As a result of being shot five times and beaten about the head by intruders into his Port-of-Spain home" [5] |
September 10, 1989 |
Stollmeyer captained West Indies in 13 Test matches |
[4]
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Muni Lal |
murdered along with his wife by burglars who broke into his house [6] |
January 8, 1990 |
Editor of Crickinia, an early Indian cricket annual, from 1939-44, uncle of Arun Lal, Indian high commissioner in the West Indies and ambassador in Somalia |
[5]
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Haseeb-ul-Hasan |
"Murdered by an unknown gunman" [7] |
April 18, 1990 |
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[6]
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Ashley Harvey-Walker |
"Shot dead in a bar in Johannesburg" [8] |
April 28, 1997 |
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[7]
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Bob Woolmer |
Strangled to death in his hotel room in Kingston, Jamaica during the 2007 cricket World Cup. The murderer is not known as of March 24, 2007 [9] |
18 March 2007 |
Woolmer, as former Test cricketer, was the coach of the Pakistan cricket team at the time of his death |
[8]
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Other suspicious deaths
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Player |
Circumstances of death |
Date of death |
Notes |
Player Profile
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Rajesh Peter |
"Found dead in his flat in New Delhi in suspicious circumstances" [10] |
16 November, 1995 |
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[9]
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