The sudden deaths that shook the cricket fraternity They say, ‘Death is inevitable!’ While the sudden death of the 59-year-old World Cup winning Aussie cricketer-turned-coach and commentator, Dean Jones, is still fresh in our minds who recently passed away after a heart attack in Mumbai, the unexpected demise of much loved Pakistan’s national cricket team’s foreign coach Bob Woolmer during the forgettable 2007 World Cup campaign in Jamaica was equally saddening and haunted the Pakistani dressing room for long. Both of these deaths came as an unanticipated horror. Sudden death of an otherwise healthy individual, let alone a healthy sportsman, without any prior sickness and not showing any significant health concerns, is always shocking. It is, however, the accidental death of young cricketers that left their followers in tears. Here we recall some of the accidental deaths of cricketers and deaths that occurred for on-field reasons that shook the cricket fraternity and the cricket lovers alike.