Cricket has not always been as clean as it has been told, match fixing, spot fixing are the darkest sides of the game that led to crime and murder. We know the fatal incident has happened to former South African captain Hansie Cronje, who died in a plane crash, which is suspected as a conspiracy to murder him to reveal the scandal of match fixing in 2000. Pakistan coach and former England cricketer Bob Woolmer was found dead in his hotel room in Kingston, Jamaica during the 2007 cricket world cup. Originally believed to have been strangled but the investigation returned an open verdict, neither ruling out strangulation nor death by natural causes.
Here is a list of cricketers who were murdered:
|
Player |
Reason of death |
Played for |
Died on |
|
Edward Wright |
Murdered in roits |
British Guiana, Gloucestershire, Jamaica |
23-11-1904 |
|
Claude Tozer |
Shot and killed by his patient
|
New South Wales
|
21-12-1920 |
|
Robert Makant |
Murdered whilst on duty in Kurdistan |
Lancashire |
18-06-1922 |
|
Huntsman Williams |
Killed in rocket attack on his vehicle in Rhodesia |
Rhodesia |
03-08-1978 |
|
Jeff Stollmeyer |
Shot five times by the intruders and also suffered head injuries at his Port-of-Spain home |
West Indies, Trinidad |
10-09-1989
|
|
Muni Lal |
Murdered along with his wife by burglars who broke into his house |
North Zone (India) |
08-01-1990 |
|
Haseeb-ul-Hasan
|
Shot by an unknown gunman |
Derbyshire |
18-04-1990 |
|
William Strydom |
Shot during a robbery |
Orange Free State |
20-02-1995
|
|
Ashley Harvey-Walker |
Shot dead in a Johannesburg bar |
Derbyshire |
28-04-1997 |
|
Francois Weideman |
Shot during a robbery |
Transvaal |
04-06-2001 |
|
Nezam Hafiz |
Worked at the World Trade Center, New York during 9/11 |
Guyana |
11-09-2001
|
|
Mark Parker |
As a result of the Bali bombings |
Otago |
12-10-2002 |
|
Rahatullah |
Shot |
Pakistan Under-19s
|
11-02-2008 |
|
Louis Vorster |
Shot during an armed robbery |
Namibia, Transvaal, Worsectershire |
18-04-2012
|
|
Errol Peart |
Shot while helping the victim of an attempted robbery |
United States of America |
02-12-2012
|
|
Kuntal Chandra |
Body found in the outskirts of Dhaka |
Bangladesh U-19s, Chittagong, Sylhet Division
|
02-12-2012 |
|
John Eugene Commins |
Found dead in his home in Cape Town |
Western Province |
03-01-2013 |