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	Claude Tozer	Shot and killed by his deranged mistress ^[1] ^[2]	December 21, 1920		[1]
2	Robert Makant	Murdered whilst on duty in Kurdistan ^[3]	June 18, 1922		[2]
3	Jeff Stollmeyer	Shot five times and beaten about the head by intruders at his Port-of-Spain home ^[4]	September 10, 1989	Stollmeyer captained West Indies in 13 Test matches	[3]
4	Muni Lal	Murdered along with his wife by burglars who broke into his house ^[5]	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	[4]
5	Haseeb-ul-Hasan	Murdered by an unknown gunman ^[6]	April 18, 1990		[5]
6	William Strydom	Shot during a robbery ^[7]	February 20, 1995		[6]
7	Mark Parker	Killed in the Bali bombings ^[8]	October 12, 2002		[7]
8	Nezam Hafiz	Died in the terrorist attack on New York's World Trade Center ^[9]	September 11, 2001		[8]
9	Ashley Harvey-Walker	Shot dead in a Johannesburg bar ^[10]	April 28, 1997		[9]
10	Rahatullah	Shot dead ^[11]	February 11, 2008		[10]

[edit] Possibly murdered cricketers

	Player	Circumstances of death	Date of death	Notes	Player Profile
1	Jack Marsh	Killed in a street brawl. The assailants were charged with manslaughter but acquitted. ^[12]	25 May 1916		[11]
2	Percy Hardy	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. ^[13]	March 9, 1916	Somerset history maintains Hardy committed suicide rather than be sent back to the WW1 battlefields ^[14]	[12]
3	Rajesh Peter	Found dead in his flat in New Delhi in suspicious circumstances. ^[15]	16 November 1995		[13]
4	Tertius Bosch	Believed to have died from Guillain-Barre syndrome, but post mortem suggested that he was poisoned ^[16]	February 14, 2000		[14]
5	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 ^[17]	January 9, 2004		[15]
6	Bob Woolmer	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 or death by natural causes^[18]	March 18, 2007	Woolmer, a former Test cricketer, was the coach of the Pakistan cricket team at the time of his death	[16]