2005 in Cricket - Deaths

Deaths

  • 7 January - The famous Lime tree at Canterbury's St Lawrence Ground.
  • 27 February - Allan Rae, 82, Jamaica and West Indies
  • 1 March - Brian Luckhurst, Kent County Cricket Club and England
  • 5 March - David Sheppard,75, Sussex County Cricket Club and England
  • 25 March - Ken Suttle, Sussex County Cricket Club, who played a record played 423 consecutive County Championship matches
  • 30 May - Fazal Mahmood, 78, Pakistan medium-pace bowler, Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1955
  • 18 June - Syed Mushtaq Ali, 90, India, the first Indian batsman to score a Test century away from home.
  • 26 June - Eknath Solkar, 57, India all-rounder, described by Cricinfo as "one of India's greatest close-in fielders"
  • 5 July - Baloo Gupte, 70, India leg spinner, record-holder of Duleep Trophy best bowling figures with nine for 55
  • 30 November - Denis Lindsay, 66, South Africa wicket-keeper.
  • 30 December - Eddie Barlow, 65, South African opening batsman .

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