List of cricketers who were murdered

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.

	Player	Circumstances of death	Date of death	Notes	Player Profile
1	Percy Hardy	"Found dead on the floor of a lavatory at King's Cross station with his throat cut and a blood-stained by his side" ^[1]	March 9, 1916		[1]
2	Claude Tozer	"Shot and killed by his deranged mistress" ^[2] ^[3]	December 21, 1920		[2]
3	Robert Makant	"Murdered whilst on duty in Kurdistan" ^[4]	June 18, 1922		[3]
4	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]
5	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]
6	Haseeb-ul-Hasan	"Murdered by an unknown gunman" ^[7]	April 18, 1990		[6]
7	Ashley Harvey-Walker	"Shot dead in a bar in Johannesburg" ^[8]	April 28, 1997		[7]
8	Bob Woolmer	At the time of inclusion, Bob Woolmer's case is still under investigation. Strangled to death in his hotel room in Kingston, Jamaica during the 2007 cricket World Cup. The murderer is not yet known.^[9]	March 18, 2007	Woolmer, a former Test cricketer, was the coach of the Pakistan cricket team at the time of his death	[8]

[edit] Possibly murdered cricketers

	Player	Circumstances of death	Date of death	Notes	Player Profile
1	Rajesh Peter	"Found dead in his flat in New Delhi in suspicious circumstances" ^[10]	16 November 1995		[9]
2	Tertius Bosch	Was believed to have died from Guillain-Barre syndrome but post mortem suggested that he was poisoned ^[11]	February 14, 2000		[10]
3	David Hookes	Died of head injuries after a brawl outside a Melbourne pub. There were claims that it was murder, but the charge that was brought was manslaughter and the person charged was found not guilty ^[12]	January 9, 2004		[11]
4	Bob Woolmer	Strangled to death in his hotel room in Kingston, Jamaica during the 2007 cricket World Cup. The murderer is not yet known.^[13]	March 18, 2007	Woolmer, a former Test cricketer, was the coach of the Pakistan cricket team at the time of his death	[12]