The following is a list of notable cricket players who died while playing a game, died directly from injuries sustained while playing, or died after being taken ill on the ground.
Player | Cause | Date | Place |
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Jasper Vinall | Struck on the head by a bat as a result of a double-hit attempt. [1] | 28 August 1624 | Horsted Keynes, Sussex |
Henry Brand | Struck on the head by a bat (notable for being a similar double-hit to Vinall, which may have resulted in the 1744 codification of the rule. [2] | 1647 | Selsey, West Sussex. |
Frederick, Prince of Wales | Keen on cricket and real tennis, it's been speculated that he died from either a pulmonary embolism or a burst abscess caused by being hit with a ball [3] | 20 March 1751 | London |
James Balchen | "Killed by a cricket ball" [4] | buried 14 June 1764 | Godalming, Surrey |
George Summers | Struck on the head by a ball [5] | 29 June 1870 | Nottingham |
H.P. Lighton | Struck by a return drive by a batsman [6] | 1872 | Repton, Derbyshire |
Claude Wilson | Killed by sunstroke [7] | 29 June 1881 | Betchworth, Surrey |
Frederick Randon Sr. | Struck on the head by a ball at Lord's in 1881, from which he never fully recovered, dying in February 1883 [8] | 17 February 1883 | Hathern, Leicestershire |
Frederick Jackman | Collapsed while batting [9] | 5 September 1891 | Horndean, England |
Charles Lane | Struck over the heart by a ball [10] | 20 May 1895 | Cosme, Paraguay |
Arthur Earlam | Struck by a return drive by the batsman [11] | July 1921 | Runcorn, Cheshire |
Edward Cox | Heart failure while playing cricket [12] | 23 July 1925 | Holyport, Berkshire, England |
Max Smith | Struck by a ball (bowled by his younger brother Clive Smith) which deflected into his head. [13] | 27 October 1941 | Werribee, Australia |
Andy Ducat | Heart failure [14] | 23 July 1942 | London |
Tom Killick | Heart problem [15] | 18 May 1953 | Northampton |
Abdul Aziz | Struck over the heart by a ball [16] | 17 January 1959 | Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan |
Martin Bedkober | Died when hit over the heart by a cricket ball; [17] flatmate of Jeff Thomson | 13 December 1975 | Brisbane, Queensland |
Michael Ainsworth | "Suddenly" [18] | 28 August 1978 | Hillingdon, London |
Wilf Slack | Collapsed while batting [19] | 15 January 1989 | Banjul, the Gambia |
Ian Folley | Heart attack while being treated in hospital for eye injury sustained on the field [20] | 30 August 1993 | Whitehaven, Cumbria |
Raman Lamba | Struck on the head by a ball while fielding [21] | 23 February 1998 | Dhaka, Bangladesh |
Wasim Raja | Suffered a heart attack on the pitch [19] [22] | 23 August 2006 | Marlow, Buckinghamshire |
Darryn Randall | Struck on the head by a ball [19] | 27 October 2013 | Alice, Eastern Cape |
Phillip Hughes | Struck on the neck by a ball during a Sheffield shield match bowled by Sean Abbott [23] | 27 November 2014 | Sydney, New South Wales |
Raymond van Schoor | Stroke [24] | 20 November 2015 | Windhoek, Namibia |
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