List of fatal accidents in cricket

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
Jasper Vinall	Struck on the head by a bat	28 August 1624	Horsted Keynes
George Summers	Struck on the head by a ball	29 June 1870	Nottingham
Andy Ducat	Heart failure[1]	23 July 1942	London
Abdul Aziz	Struck over the heart by a ball	17 January 1959	Karachi
Wilf Slack	Collapsed while batting[2]	15 January 1989	Banjul
Ian Folley	Heart attack while being treated in hospital for eye injury sustained on the field[3]	30 August 1993	Whitehaven
Raman Lamba	Struck on the head by a ball while fielding[4]	20 February 1998	Dhaka
Wasim Raja	Suffered a heart attack on the pitch[2][5]	23 August 2006	Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Darryn Randall	Struck on the head by a ball[2]	27 October 2013	Alice, Eastern Cape
Phillip Hughes	Struck on the neck by a ball	27 November 2014	Sydney
Raymond van Schoor	Stroke[6]	20 November 2015	Windhoek

Possible deaths

Frederick, Prince of Wales, heir to King George II of Great Britain, died on 20 March 1751. Keen on cricket, he either died of pneumonia, or from a burst abscess caused by being hit with a cricket ball.^[7]

Notes

1. Williamson, Martin (4 December 2004). "Not out ... dead". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
2. "FACTBOX-Cricket-Deaths caused from on-field incidents". Reuters. 27 November 2014.
3. Powell, Rose (28 November 2014). "Ten fatal cricket injuries before Phillip Hughes died". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
4. "The tragic death of Raman Lamba". Martin Williamson. Cricinfo Magazine, 14 August 2010. Retrieved 23 May 2015.
5. "Wasim Raja dies playing cricket". ESPN Cricinfo. 23 August 2006.
6. "Namibian cricketer Raymond van Schoor dies, aged 25, five days after on-field collapse due to stroke". abc.net.au. 21 November 2015.
7. Cavendish, Richard. "Death of Frederick, Prince of Wales". History Today.