List of fatalities while playing 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 as a result of a double-hit attempt.[1]	28 August 1624	Horsted Keynes, Sussex
Henry Brand	Struck on the head by a bat (notable for being a similar double-hit to Vinall, which may have resulted in the 1744 codification of the rule.[2]	1647	Selsey, West Sussex.
Frederick, Prince of Wales	Keen on cricket and real tennis, it's been speculated that he died from either a pulmonary embolism or a burst abscess caused by being hit with a ball[3]	20 March 1751	London
James Balchen	"Killed by a cricket ball"[4]	buried 14 June 1764	Godalming, Surrey
George Summers	Struck on the head by a ball[5]	29 June 1870	Nottingham
John Hamilton Plumptre Lighton	Son of Rev. Sir Christopher Lighton, Baronet; struck by a return drive by a batsman[6][7]	12 July 1872	Repton, Derbyshire
Claude Wilson	Killed by sunstroke[8]	29 June 1881	Betchworth, Surrey
Lord Fitzroy Somerset	Youngest son of the Duke of Beaufort; collapsed and died of suspected heart failure[9]	23 July 1881	near Tetbury, Gloucestershire
Frederick Randon Sr.	Struck on the head by a ball at Lord's in 1881, from which he never fully recovered, dying in February 1883[10]	17 February 1883	Hathern, Leicestershire
Frederick Jackman	Collapsed while batting[11]	5 September 1891	Horndean, England
Charles Lane	Struck over the heart by a ball[12]	20 May 1895	Cosme, Paraguay
Arthur Earlam	Struck by a return drive by the batsman[13]	July 1921	Runcorn, Cheshire
Edward Cox	Heart failure while playing cricket[14]	23 July 1925	Holyport, Berkshire, England
Max Smith	Struck by a ball (bowled by his younger brother Clive Smith) which deflected into his head.[15]	27 October 1941	Werribee, Australia
Andy Ducat	Heart failure[16]	23 July 1942	London
Tom Killick	Heart problem[17]	18 May 1953	Northampton
Abdul Aziz	Struck over the heart by a ball[18]	17 January 1959	Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
Martin Bedkober	Died when hit over the heart by a cricket ball;[19] flatmate of Jeff Thomson	13 December 1975	Brisbane, Queensland
Michael Ainsworth	"Suddenly"[20]	28 August 1978	Hillingdon, London
Wilf Slack	Collapsed while batting[21]	15 January 1989	Banjul, the Gambia
Ian Folley	Heart attack while being treated in hospital for eye injury sustained on the field[22]	30 August 1993	Whitehaven, Cumbria
Raman Lamba	Struck on the head by a ball while fielding[23]	23 February 1998	Dhaka, Bangladesh
Wasim Raja	Suffered a heart attack on the pitch[21][24]	23 August 2006	Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Darryn Randall	Struck on the head by a ball[21]	27 October 2013	Alice, Eastern Cape
Phillip Hughes	Struck on the neck by a ball during a Sheffield shield match bowled by Sean Abbott[25]	27 November 2014	Sydney, New South Wales
Raymond van Schoor	Stroke[26]	20 November 2015	Windhoek, Namibia