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	"As a result of being shot five times and beaten about the head by intruders into 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	Ashley Harvey-Walker	"Shot dead in a bar in Johannesburg" [7]	April 28, 1997		[6]

Contents

Possibly murdered cricketers

References

Possibly murdered cricketers

	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 knife by his side" [8]	March 9, 1916	Somerset history maintains Hardy committed suicide rather than be sent back to the WW1 battlefields [9]	[7]
2	Rajesh Peter	"Found dead in his flat in New Delhi in suspicious circumstances" [10]	16 November, 1995		[8]
3	Tertius Bosch	Was believed to have died from Guillain-Barre syndrome but post mortem suggested that he was poisoned [11]	February 14, 2000		[9]
4	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		[10]

References

1. The strange demise of Claude Tozer, ''Cricket-online.com'' article
2. Hell hath no fury ..., Cricinfo.com
3. Makant's obituary in 1923 Wisden
4. Stollmeyer's obituary in 1990 Wisden
5. ACSSI Yearbook 1989-90
6. Haseeb-ul-Hasan's obituary in 1991 Wisden
7. Harvey-Walker's obituary in 1998 Wisden
8. Hardy's obituary in 1917 Wisden
9. Sunshine, Sixes and Cider, by David Foot (David & Charles, 1986)
10. Peter's obituary in 1997 Wisden
11. Bosch post mortem suggests poisoning Cricinfo.com
12. Bouncer found not guilty in Hookes case Cricinfo.com