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List of cricketers who died in road accidents

George Street - "He was riding a motor-cycle and, in endeavouring to avoid a lorry at a cross-roads, crashed into a wall and died immediately." Apparently, pressed the accelerator instead of the brake.

Ted McDonald - Australian Test player. Car collided with another car near Bolton. Was run over by a passing car while standing on the road.

Dudley Pope

Charlie Bull

Reggie Northway - "car overturned on the A6 road at Kibworth, Leicestershire. Northway was flung from the car and killed, his body being found in a roadside ditch." The same accident ended the career of Fred Bakewell

Dallas Page

Jack Iddon - English Test player

Collie Smith-West indian Test player

Riaz-ur-Rehman

Hugo Yarnold Record-breaking wicketkeeper and Test umpire

Richard Edmunds Fast bowler from Rutland, played a couple of times for Leicestershire in 1989 and for England Youth Test side

Graham Kersey

Ben Hollioake - English Test player

Dhruv Pandove [1] - Indian first-class player

Suryaveer Singh [2] - Indian first-class player, brother of Test player Hanumant Singh

Keki Tarapore - Indian Test player

Alec Bedser, South African first class cricketer and twin brother of Eric Bedser - they were named after the English cricketing twins of the same name.

Basil Fussell

Donald Pringle, father of Derek. Played ODIs for East Africa in the 1975 World Cup.

Clem Hill, suffered head injuries due to a fall while trying to board a tram in the corner of Queen and Collins street on May 17, 1945. In the Royal Melbourne Hospital, he was taken off the "danger list" ten days later. But a heart condition developed and he died on September 5.

Stanley Jackson, run over by a taxi. Died some while afterwards, but allegedly never recovered.

Govind Chauhan, father of Rajesh Chauhan, scooter accident.

Wisden 1966 reported that Wally Hammond died aged 62 "from an illness due in great part to severe injuries suffered in a motor accident five years earlier".

[3] reports Ron Oxenham did not recover from road accident injuries

Laurie Williams - West Indian first-class player (also played ODIs for West Indies) car crash

C.N.Bruce (Lord Aberdare) died after his car left a road and fell into a river in Yugoslavia

Ian Cromb - New Zealand Test player

Manjural Islam Rana - Bangladesh Test player

Sajjadul Hasan

Stanley de Silva, Sri Lankan first-class player, also played ODIs in the 1979 World Cup. Died aged 23-147, motor cycle accident [4]

Bashir Miandad

Anthony Rohrs, car accident

Sharad Mandan, [5]

Masood Salahuddin, [6], aged 90

Nasir Wasti [7]

Albert Frederick "Spinney" Lane. Car came off the road and hit a hedge near Stratford upon Avon

Mark McPhee "four-wheel-drive collided with a road train carrying milk near Gingin, north of Perth"

Vic Jackson killed in a motor-car accident in Australia

Shervan Prag

Reg Bettington "his car fell 100 feet on to a railway line"

Malcolm Walker, died in a motorcycle accident

Tiger Lance, died four weeks after being seriously injured in a road accident

Peter Barrett, died in a moped accident in Everton, Hampshire on 28 October 1983.

George Shaw, died in a car accident outside Port Pirie, South Australia on 2 August 1984.

MP Dastur, motor cycle accident

Runako Morton - West Indian Test player, also ODIs

Kishore Bhikane two-wheeler hit by a truck

AJW Bavin, not fcc, Aug 6, 1956, aged 60

Saleem Pervez, one ODI for Pakistan in 1980

Merrick Elderton, hit by a cyclist near to his home in Sherborne, fell on the road and died of head injuries.

Aubrey Sharp, after a car accident

Brian Swift (cricketer), Cambridge University wicketkeeper in 1957 University Match, killed in car accident March 1958

Sandeep Singh

Robert Baynton, died in hospital from a fractured skull after an accident that also killed his brother

Joe Filliston - umpired at Lord's at the age of 100. Knocked down by a motor scooter at 102.

Yashpal Mohanty

George Vernon Gunn

Hugo Hood

Derek Hall (cricketer)

Harry Crick

Sripal Silva died on February 27, 2020 died "from injuries sustained in a motor accident some time ago"

Robin Buckston, collapsed and died at the wheel of his car near Burton on Trent

Len Dolding

Ramnath Parkar, his scooter was hit by a bus. Died after being in a coma for 43 months.

Najeeb Tarakai, Afghan T20I and ODI player, hit by a car while crossing the road.

Amien Variawa, head on collision, accident in Azadville near Johannesburg on 31/12/1985

Ezra Moseley

Harry Freeman - died in a motorcycle crash near Portsmouth Arms railway station in 1926

Sarah Stokes

Edmund King

Alfred Birkett

Andrew Symonds

Rudi Koertzen, Test umpire.

Barlow Carkeek, struck by a car while crossing the road in rain

Jean Clark

Clyde Butts

Train accidents

• Ranjit Khanwilkar - died when the Island Express fell off the bridge over the Ashtamudi Lake near Kollam (then Quilon) in Kerala
• Fred Stedman
• Edward Broad - struck by the New Plymouth Express while motor cycling across a level cross
• Thomas Hunt of United England XI. "Overtaken by a train and fearfully mangled" while crossing a railway line.

Drowned

• Johnny Douglas (England Test player and captain, also Olympic boxer)
• John Thayer
• Ramesh Sampath
• Kenneth Gandar-Dower (not first-class)
• Leonard Colbeck (died at sea in First World War)
• Francis Bacon (cricketer)
• Cecil Abercrombie (killed in the battle of Jutland)
• Herbert Hawkins (cricketer), drowned, with his wife, while swimming at Trincomalee
• MR. WILLIAM J. MCCAFFREY, one of the best known cricketers in Toronto, died on September 28th, aged 39. He and his mother, wife, and two children were drowned whilst canoeing in Pigeon Creek, about 70 miles East of Toronto (Wisden 1912)
• Ted Dunning
• John Dunn and his 10 teammates who went down with SS Bokhara
• Robert Gordon
• S.V. Vaidyanathan, drowned in Missouri

Aviation accidents

• Ken Farnes - English Test player (Crashed on duty in WW2)
• Ross Gregory - Australian Test player (Crashed on duty in WW2)
• Ken Ridings, brother of Phil Ridings
• Vivek Agarwal
• Roger Winlaw and Claude Ashton in the same mid-air collision
• Geoffrey Legge - English Test player (Crashed on duty in WW2)
• Charlie Walker
• Donny Davies, working as a newspaperman when killed in Manchester United Munich air disaster
• Hansie Cronje - South African Test player and captain
• Ossie Newton-Thompson
• David Walker
• Peter Eckersley
• Reginald Lagden, killed 25 October 1944 in an air accident near Karachi while returning from India to England. Former president of Bengal and Assam cricket associations, hockey federation of Bengal, vice president of BCCI, chief of McLeod and Co, vice president of Bengal chamber of commerce.
• Aubrey Lilley
• Charles Hubert Boulby Blount
• Eric Dixon, killed 1941 off Libya
• Geoffrey Longfield in a mid-air collision
• Gerald Seeley, shot down in 1941 while conducting anti-shipping operations over the English channel
• David Merry
• George Pennington

Cricketers who were murdered

See List of cricketers who were murdered

Shahabuddin murdered in his village in 1948.

The 1939-40 MCC Touring Party

(wherein the curious will find the answer to Q268 of the Cricket Quiz)

Flight-Lieut Jack Holmes (capt) Hugh Bartlett John Brocklebank Billy Griffith Roger Human Bob Wyatt Emrys Davies Tom Dollery Harold Gimblett George Pope John Langridge Gerald Mobey Stan Nichols Jack Parker Peter Smith Arthur Wellard

Tests to be played at Bombay, Calcutta and Madras.

Holmes, Bartlett, Brocklebank, Human, Davies, Langridge, Mobey and Parker never played Test cricket.

The manager was to have been Lieut.-Col. C.B. Rubie; in the event, Col. Rubie died on 3 November, 1939 after an operation, so his participation must have been doubtful.

Tryout Championship

Position	Team	Played	Won	Lost	Drawn	No Dec	1st inn lead match L	1st inn lead match D	Points
Pts	–	–	12	–	–	–	4	4	–
=1	Lancashire	28	16	2	10	0	1	6	220
=1	Surrey	28	17	4	6	1	0	4	220
3	Yorkshire	28	14	2	10	2	0	8	200
4	Warwickshire	28	8	6	13	1	1	8	132
5	Derbyshire	28	8	9	9	2	3	4	124
6	Worcestershire	28	7	9	9	3	0	7	114
=7	Gloucestershire	28	6	6	16	0	2	9	112
=7	Somerset	28	8	8	10	2	1	3	112
9	Kent	28	6	12	8	1	3	5	108
10	Northamptonshire	28	6	4	15	3	2	6	104
11	Glamorgan	28	6	4	9	9	0	7	100
12	Hampshire	28	7	9	9	2	0	2	96
13	Sussex	28	5	11	11	1	6	2	92
14	Middlesex	28	5	12	8	3	2	4	84
15	Nottinghamshire	28	3	6	17	2	0	8	68
16	Leicestershire	28	3	13	11	1	2	5	64
17	Essex	28	4	12	11	1	0	3	60

Promoted: Dundee United, Clydebank
Relegated: Johnstone, Forfar Athletic

Tryout cricket tables

1963 English cricket season – leading batsmen by average
Name	Innings	Runs	Highest	Average	100s
Gary Sobers	34	1333	112	47.60	4
Mike Smith	39	1566	144*	47.45	3
Geoff Boycott	43	1628	165*	45.22	3
Basil Butcher	34	1294	133	44.62	2
Conrad Hunte	37	1367	182	44.09	3
Clive Inman	51	1708	120*	42.70	1
Brian Bolus	57	2190	202*	41.32	5
Ken Barrington	45	1568	110*	41.26	2

1963 English cricket season – leading batsmen by aggregate
Name	Innings	Runs	Highest	Average	100s
Brian Bolus	57	2190	202*	41.32	5
Peter Richardson	56	2110	172	39.07	5
John Edrich	55	1921	125	40.02	2
Alan Jones	58	1857	187*	34.38	3
Ken Suttle	57	1854	141	34.98	3

1963 English cricket season – leading bowlers by average
Name	Balls	Maidens	Runs	Wickets	Average
Charlie Griffith	4208	192	1527	119	12.83
Fred Trueman	5067	206	1955	129	15.15
Ken Palmer	6113	289	2234	139	16.07
Alan Moss	3857	249	1355	84	16.13
David Sydenham	4915	239	1753	108	16.23
Brian Statham	4746	168	1874	113	16.58

1964 English cricket season – leading bowlers by aggregate
Name	Balls	Maidens	Runs	Wickets	Average
Derek Shackleton	8325	583	2446	146	16.75
Barry Knight	6743	207	3042	140	21.72
Ken Palmer	6113	289	2234	139	16.07
Fred Trueman	5067	206	1955	129	15.15
Don Shepherd	7713	540	2373	126	18.83

1930 English cricket season - leading bowlers by average
Name	Balls	Maidens	Runs	Wickets	Average
Hedley Verity	2437	154	795	64	12.42
Charlie Parker	6099	301	2299	179	12.84
Dick Tyldesley	6313	352	2263	140	16.16
Harold Larwood	3726	124	1622	99	16.38
Frank Booth	1131	47	432	26	16.61

11-column Championship

Position	Team	Played	Won	Lost	Drawn	Tied	No Dec	1st inn lead match L	1st inn lead match D	Points
Pts	–	–	12	–	–	6	–	4	4	–
1	Middlesex	26	19	5	2	0	0	1	1	236
2	Gloucestershire	26	17	4	5	0	0	1	2	216
3	Lancashire	26	13	1	10	1	1	0	6	186
4	Kent	26	12	8	6	0	0	2	5	172
5	Derbyshire	26	11	9	5	0	1	3	4	160
6	Surrey	26	10	7	8	0	1	0	5	140
=7	Worcestershire	26	7	11	8	0	0	4	5	120
=7	Yorkshire	26	8	7	10	0	1	1	5	120
=9	Glamorgan	26	8	8	8	0	2	3	2	116
=9	Sussex	26	9	12	5	0	0	1	0	116
=11	Essex	26	6	9	10	1	0	1	4	100
=11	Nottinghamshire	26	6	6	13	0	1	1	6	100
=11	Somerset	26	8	12	6	0	0	0	1	100
14	Leicestershire	26	6	14	5	0	1	2	3	92
15	Warwickshire	26	6	12	7	0	1	2	1	84
16	Hampshire	26	4	11	8	1	2	0	6	78
17	Northamptonshire	26	2	16	6	1	1	2	4	54

Tryout football tables

Position	Team	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Difference	Points
1	Clyde	39	21	11	7	71	32	39	53
2	Raith Rovers	39	19	15	5	63	34	29	53
3	Dunfermline Ath	39	18	12	9	64	41	23	48
4	Berwick Rangers	39	16	16	7	68	51	17	48
5	Falkirk	39	15	14	10	51	46	5	44
6	Forfar Athletic	39	17	8	14	61	55	6	42
7	Queen's Park	39	13	15	11	52	51	1	41
8	Albion Rovers	39	16	8	15	68	68	0	40
9	East Stirlingshire	39	15	8	16	55	65	-10	38
10	Cowdenbeath	39	13	8	18	75	78	-3	34
11	Stranraer	39	13	7	19	54	63	-9	33
12	Stenhousemuir	39	10	10	19	43	67	-24	30
13	Meadowbank Thistle	39	6	10	23	43	89	-46	22
14	Brechin City	39	7	6	26	45	73	-28	20

Infobox

Eric Martin

Personal information
Full name	Eric James Martin
Born	(1925-08-17)17 August 1925 Lambley, Nottinghamshire, England
Died	1 October 2015(2015-10-01) (aged 90) Woodthorpe, Nottinghamshire, England
Batting	Right-handed
Role	Batter
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1949–1959	Nottinghamshire
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 85 Runs scored 493 Batting average 7.35 100s/50s –/– Top score 41 Balls bowled 12,321 Wickets 147 Bowling average 36.95 5 wickets in innings 4 10 wickets in match – Best bowling 6/65 Catches/stumpings 38/–
Source: CricketArchive, 11 November 2024

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Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Stonehouse (Bristol Road) Line and station closed		Stonehouse and Nailsworth Railway Midland Railway		Dudbridge Line and station closed

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And

Marlborough and Savernake Area
M&SWJR to Swindon Marlborough (M&SWJR station) Marlborough (GWR station) Link (1883-98, 1926-64) Marlborough tunnel Link (1933-64) Burbage Wharf Goods Station Savernake High Level Savernake Low Level Reading to Plymouth Line Grafton and Burbage M&SWJR to Andover

And again

Name	County	Birth date	Batting Style	Bowling Style	Refs
Lord Hawke (Captain)	Yorkshire	(1860-08-16)16 August 1860 (aged 34)	Right-handed	–
Gerald Bardswell	Lancashire	(1873-12-07)7 December 1873 (aged 20)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium pace
Lawrence Bathurst	Middlesex	(1871-06-04)4 June 1871 (aged 23)	Right-handed	Left-arm medium pace
Charles de Trafford	Leicestershire	(1864-05-21)21 May 1864 (aged 30)	Right-handed	–
Ledger Hill	Hampshire	(1871-07-26)26 July 1871 (aged 23)	Right-handed	Right-arm underarm
George Hillyard	Leicestershire	(1864-02-06)6 February 1864 (aged 30)	Right-handed	Right arm fast-medium
Robert Lucas	Middlesex	(1867-07-17)17 July 1867 (aged 27)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium pace
Kenneth McAlpine	–	(1858-04-11)11 April 1858 (aged 36)	Right-handed	–
Gerald Mordaunt	Kent	(1873-01-20)20 January 1873 (aged 21)	Right-handed	Right arm underarm slow
Sandford Robinson	Nottinghamshire	(1868-02-05)5 February 1868 (aged 26)	Right-handed	(Wicketkeeper)
William Whitwell	–	(1867-12-12)12 December 1867 (aged 26)	Right-handed	Right arm fast
Charles Wright	Nottinghamshire	(1863-05-27)27 May 1863 (aged 31)	Right-handed	(Wicketkeeper)

Match template

28–29 September 1894 CricketArchive

Lord Hawke's XI	v	Gentlemen of Philadelphia
211 (107.1 overs) Robert Lucas 46 Walter Clark 3/20 (12 overs)		107 (58.3 overs) Clark 24 William Whitwell 4/33 (21 overs)
		64 (33.1 overs) Clark 18 Whitwell 5/25 (16.1 overs)

Lord Hawke's XI won by an innings and 40 runs Germantown Cricket Club Ground, Philadelphia

• Lord Hawke's XI won the toss and chose to bat

Name	Main FC team	Birth and death	Cause of death	Ref	Other details
George Street	England	6 December, 1889 – 24 April, 1924	"He was riding a motor-cycle and, in endeavouring to avoid a lorry at a cross-roads, crashed into a wall and died immediately."
Ted McDonald	Australia		Car collided with another car near Bolton
Dudley Pope
Charlie Bull
Reggie Northway	Northants		"Car overturned on the A6 road at Kibworth, Leicestershire. Northway was flung from the car and killed, his body being found in a roadside ditch." The same accident ended the career of Fred Bakewell
Dallas Page
Jack Iddon
Collie Smith	West Indies
Riaz-ur-Rehman
Hugo Yarnold
Richard Edmunds
Graham Kersey
Ben Hollioake
Dhruv Pandove
Suryaveer Singh
Keki Tarapore
Alec Bedser (South African cricketer)
Basil Fussell
Donald Pringe
Clem Hill
Stanley Jackson
Govind Chauhan
Wally Hammond
Ron Oxenham
Laurie Williams
C. N. Bruce
Ian Cromb
Manjural Islam Rana
Sajjadul Hasan
Stanley de Silva
Bashir Miandad
Anthony Rohrs
Sharad Mandan
Masood Salahuddin
Nasir Wasti
Spinney Lane
Mark McPhee
Vic Johnson
Shervan Prag
Reg Bettington
Malcolm Walker
Tiger Lance
Peter Barrett
George Shaw
Manek Dastur
Runako Morton
Kishore Bhikane
AJW Bavin
Salim Pervez
Meldrick Elderton
Aubrey Sharp
Brian Swift
Sandeep Singh
Robert Baynton

Furthermore

If you put "Yeabsley" and "Harlequins" into the search engine for The Times you come up with a single reference showing D. I. Yeabsley playing at No 6 for Harlequins against Birkenhead Park in March 1967, and scoring a try in a 17–5 victory.<ref>{{cite news| title = Solid tackling fails to stop Harlequins | newspaper = [[The Times]] | subscription = yes |issue = 56846 | page = 5 | location = London | date = 23 January 1967 }}</ref> If you put "Yeabsley" and "Saracens" into the same search engine, there's again a single reference, this time recording Yeabsley, described as "the Saracens flank forward", replacing a fellow Saracens player in the Hertfordshire county XV.<ref>{{cite news| title = Rugby Union: Internationals return for Surrey| newspaper = [[The Times]] | subscription = yes |issue = 58037 | page = 15 | location = London | date = 1 December 1970}}</ref>