The following is a list of 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. | 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. | 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 | 20 March 1751 | London |
| James Balchen | "Killed by a cricket ball" | buried 14 June 1764 | Godalming, Surrey |
| George Summers | Struck on the head by a ball bowled by John Platts. | 29 June 1870 | Nottingham |
| John Hamilton Plumptre Lighton | Son of Rev. Sir Christopher Lighton, Baronet; struck by a return drive by a batsman | 12 July 1872 | Repton, Derbyshire |
| William Jupp | Died after suffering a brain injury during a cricket match. | 3 August 1878 | Chertsey, Surrey |
| Claude Wilson | Killed by sunstroke | 29 June 1881 | Betchworth, Surrey |
| Lord Fitzroy Somerset | Youngest son of the Duke of Beaufort; collapsed and died of suspected heart failure | 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 | 17 February 1883 | Hathern, Leicestershire |
| Frederick Jackman | Collapsed while batting | 5 September 1891 | Horndean, England |
| Charles Lane | Struck over the heart by a ball | 20 May 1895 | Cosme, Paraguay |
| Arthur Earlam | Struck by a return drive by the batsman | July 1921 | Runcorn, Cheshire |
| Walter Duff | Died of complications from a broken leg during a cricket match. | 11 November 1921 | Sydney, Australia |
| Edward Cox | Heart failure while playing cricket | 23 July 1925 | Holyport, Berkshire, England |
| William John Griffiths | Struck by a ball in the head when attempting to take a catch during practice resulting in a skull fracture. | 16 October 1928 | Melbourne, Australia |
| Max Smith | Struck by a ball (bowled by his younger brother Clive Smith) which deflected into his head. | 27 October 1941 | Werribee, Australia |
| Andy Ducat | Heart failure | 23 July 1942 | London |
| Tom Killick | Heart problem | 18 May 1953 | Northampton |
| Abdul Aziz | Struck over the heart by a ball | 17 January 1959 | Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan |
| Martin Bedkober | Died when hit over the heart by a cricket ball; flatmate of Jeff Thomson | 13 December 1975 | Brisbane, Queensland |
| Michael Ainsworth | "Suddenly" | 28 August 1978 | Hillingdon, London |
| Wilf Slack | Collapsed while batting | 15 January 1989 | Banjul, the Gambia |
| Ian Folley | Heart attack while being treated in hospital for eye injury sustained on the field | 30 August 1993 | Whitehaven, Cumbria |
| Raman Lamba | Struck on the head by a ball while fielding | 23 February 1998 | Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Mark Lavine | Heart attack | 12 May 2001 | Coventry, England |
| Wasim Raja | Suffered a heart attack on the pitch | 23 August 2006 | Marlow, Buckinghamshire |
| Darryn Randall | Struck on the head by a ball | 27 October 2013 | Alice, Eastern Cape |
| Phillip Hughes | Struck on the neck by a ball during a Sheffield shield match bowled by Sean Abbott | 27 November 2014 | Sydney, New South Wales |
| Raymond van Schoor | Stroke | 20 November 2015 | Windhoek, Namibia |
| Rajesh Ghodge | Collapsed while playing in a local cricket tournament | Margao, Goa, India | |
| Shyamji Kanojia | Heart attack while fielding during a in a senior veterans cricket match. | 3 January 2021 | Virar, Mumbai |
| Ben Austin | Struck on the neck by a ball during practice | 28 October 2025 | Melbourne, Australia |
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