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 |
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- ^ "Wasim Raja dies playing cricket". ESPN Cricinfo. 23 August 2006.
- ^ Staff reporters (27 November 2014). "Phillip Hughes dead: Australian cricketer dies after bouncer at SCG". The Sydney Morning Herald.
- ^ "Namibian cricketer Raymond van Schoor dies, aged 25, five days after on-field collapse due to stroke". abc.net.au. 21 November 2015.