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This is a chronological list of cricketers who were murdered. These cricketers played in first-class cricket, List A, or at a similar level. This list does not include those who were killed in wars. They are listed separately at List of cricketers who were killed during military service.

	Player	Circumstances of death	Date of death	Notes	Player Profile
1	Edward Wright	Murdered in riots at Jamaica.[1]	23 November 1904
2	Claude Tozer	Also a medical doctor, he was shot and killed by a patient.[2]	21 December 1920
3	Robert Makant	Murdered whilst on duty in Kurdistan.[3]	18 June 1922
4	Norman Reid	Shot dead by his wife.[4]	5–6 June 1947	South African Test cricketer. Was originally reported as having died in 'tragic circumstances'. Investigations by Brian Bassano and David Frith revealed that Reid was shot in the head. His body was found in his bed on 18 June 1947. The death certificate concluded that Reid was shot by his wife "whilst of unsound mind".
5	Huntsman Williams	Killed in rocket attack on his vehicle in Rhodesia.[5]	3 August 1978
6	Jeff Stollmeyer	Shot five times and beaten about the head by intruders at his Port-of-Spain home.[6]	10 September 1989	Stollmeyer captained West Indies in 13 Test matches
7	Muni Lal	Murdered along with his wife by burglars who broke into his house.[7]	8 January 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
8	Haseeb-ul-Hasan	Shot by an unknown gunman.[8]	18 April 1990
9	William Strydom	Shot during a robbery.[9]	20 February 1995
10	Mahinda Jayaratne	Died two days after being shot by a gunman who arrived by motorcycle at his home.[10]	15 March 1997
11	Ashley Harvey-Walker	Shot dead in a Johannesburg bar.[11]	28 April 1997
12	Wirantha Fernando	Killed by a mob.[12]	17 April 2000	First to captain Colts Cricket Club at FC level
13	Francois Weideman	Shot during a robbery.[13]	4 June 2001
14	Nezam Hafiz	Worked at the World Trade Center, New York during 9/11.[14]	11 September 2001	First-class player for Guyana and later the US.
15	Mark Parker	As a result of the Bali bombings.[15]	12 October 2002
16	Rahatullah	Shot.[16]	11 February 2008
17	Louis Vorster	Shot during an armed robbery.[17]	18 April 2012
18	Errol Peart	Shot while helping the victim of an attempted robbery.[18]	2 December 2012	Played five matches for USA in the 1990 ICC Trophy
19	Kuntal Chandra	Body found in the outskirts of Dhaka.[19]	2 December 2012
20	John Commins	Found dead in his home in Cape Town.[20]	3 January 2013	Uncle of Test cricketer John Commins
21	Fiqre Crockwell	Shot dead in Pembroke Parish, Bermuda.[21]	20 June 2016
22	William Haye	Shot dead in Jamaica.[22]	18 March 2019

The lead section of this article may need to be rewritten. (January 2013)

Possibly murdered

	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.[23]	9 March 1916	Somerset history maintains Hardy committed suicide rather than be sent back to World War I battlefields.[24]
2	Rajesh Peter	Found dead in his flat in New Delhi in suspicious circumstances.[25]	16 November 1995	Indian first-class player
3	Tertius Bosch	Believed to have died from Guillain–Barré syndrome, but post mortem suggested that he was poisoned. The case has now been closed and nothing was found.[26]	14 February 2000	South African Test player
4	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, ruling out neither strangulation nor death by natural causes.[27]	18 March 2007	Woolmer, a former English Test cricketer, was the coach of the Pakistan cricket team at the time of his death
5	Nauman Habib	Reportedly a victim of murder.[28]	11 October 2011

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