Cricket
- March 23 – death of Ben Hollioake, Surrey and England player, in a car crash
- June 1 – death of Hansie Cronje, South African player still involved in match-fixing controversy, in an air crash
- New Zealand are forced to abandon their tour of Pakistan after a bomb explodes outside their hotel in Karachi
- County Championship (England and Wales) – Surrey CCC
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Famous quotes containing the word cricket:
“All cries are thin and terse;
The field has droned the summer’s final mass;
A cricket like a dwindled hearse
Crawls from the dry grass.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
“The thing that struck me forcefully was the feeling of great age about the place. Standing on that old parade ground, which is now a cricket field, I could feel the dead generations crowding me. Here was the oldest settlement of freedmen in the Western world, no doubt. Men who had thrown off the bands of slavery by their own courage and ingenuity. The courage and daring of the Maroons strike like a purple beam across the history of Jamaica.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)