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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 - Indian first-class player

Suryaveer Singh - 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".

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

Bashir Miandad

Anthony Rohrs, car accident

Sharad Mandan,

Masood Salahuddin,, aged 90

Nasir Wasti

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

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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. 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.