Which cricketer was killed by a Tube train in Wimbledon in June 2012?
"Tom Maynard Thomas Lloyd ""Tom"" Maynard (25 March 1989 – 18 June 2012) was a Welsh cricketer who batted for Glamorgan and Surrey, and was selected for the England Lions tour to Bangladesh. On the night of his death, he was stopped by police in Wimbledon for erratic driving, and fled across the rail-tracks where he was electrocuted and then hit by a train. The son of former England batsman Matthew Maynard, he was regarded as a highly promising player. Born in Cardiff, Maynard attended Pentyrch Primary School, Radyr Comprehensive School, and then moved to Millfield School before attending Whitchurch"
"London at around 4 am BST on 18 June 2012, when they saw it being driven erratically. Maynard subsequently fled the scene and the police were unable to locate him. Approximately one hour later, Maynard was electrocuted on a railway line near Wimbledon Park Station. He was then hit by a London Underground District line train and his body was found near the tracks at 5:10 am. According to British Transport Police, his death was treated by authorities as ""non-suspicious"". His funeral was held at Llandaff Cathedral on 4 July, with more than 1,000 people in attendance, including England players"
"2012 Wimbledon Championships The 2012 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London in England. It was the 126th edition of the Wimbledon Championships and were held from 25 June to 8 July 2012. It was the third Grand Slam tennis event of the year and was part of the ATP World Tour, the WTA Tour, the ITF Junior Tour and the NEC Tour. The championships were organised by the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club and the International Tennis Federation. Both Novak Djokovic and"
"Wembley) He was on the MCC staff for seven years. His main claim to fame on the cricket pitch was as a 12th Man for England in the Lord's Test of 1949. He played only once for Middlesex, in 1951, but as a right-arm leg-break bowler took part in many games for MCC. On 12 November 1954, Dolding was a passenger in a car that collided with a trolley bus standard in Wembley. The car was being driven by Middlesex teammate Sid Brown. Dolding died on 23 November 1954. Len Dolding Desmond Leonard Dolding (13 December 1922 – 23 November"
"electrocution or being hit by the train was the cause of death. A charity, the Tom Maynard Trust, was launched in his memory at the CB40 fixture between Surrey and Glamorgan at The Oval on 21 August, to help young cricketers and other young sportspeople in developing their careers. The match also served as a memorial to Maynard, with all the players on both sides wearing shirts that carried Maynard's squad numbers when at Glamorgan and Surrey, 33 and 55 respectively. Both squad numbers were retired, as was the number 64 he wore on duty for the England Lions. Before"
"tour. He married English table tennis international Jill Rook in 1960. Alan Mills (tennis) Alan Ronald Mills, (born 6 November 1935 in Stretford, Lancashire, England), is a former tennis player and tournament referee for the Wimbledon tennis championships from 1982 to 2005. Although each individual tennis match was controlled by an on-court umpire, Alan Mills ran the entire tournament. However, perhaps he was most well known because the decision to stop play in the event of rain was that of Mills, and so his face was familiar to millions of television viewers worldwide, in the corner of Centre Court, clutching"
"2016, while his partner Louise Rooney was in London, Mitchell went to a level crossing in Cornton near his home in Stirling and telephoned her to say that he was intending to kill himself. The call was still live when he was fatally struck by the train. On 10 May, Clyde paid tribute to Mitchell in their play-off game against Queen's Park. Falkirk did the same against Hibernian four days later. Clyde, Falkirk, Queen of the South and Bradford joined with Mitchell's family to make a charitable foundation in his name, to help former professionals make the transition into new"
"he was found dead at his home on 27 November, having apparently committed suicide. Due to London's successful bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics, a Great Britain team would qualify as of right of being the host nation. However, the FAW stressed it was strongly against the proposal. Despite this, Welsh players Aaron Ramsey and Gareth Bale expressed their interest in representing the Great Britain Olympic football team. Bale was ultimately omitted due to injury, but Ramsey was joined by four other Welshmen in Stuart Pearce's 18-man squad: Swansea City's Joe Allen and Neil Taylor, while Manchester United's Ryan Giggs"
"Melville Guest Melville Richard John Guest (born 18 November 1943) is a British former diplomat and first-class cricketer. He was born in what was then Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, two weeks after the death of his father, Ernest Melville Charles Guest, a RAF pilot who was killed in action over the English Channel. He was educated at Rugby School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he played cricket for the University from 1964–1966 and earned a Blue. In the Varsity Match of 1965, Guest and his fellow batsman Mike Groves were barracked by the crowd for slow scoring, with 15 consecutive maiden"
"He was posted to No. 256 Squadron RAF and was killed on 31 October 1942, when as a navigator/observer flying in a Bristol Beaufighter ""X7845"" it collided in mid-air with a Vickers Wellington during a training mission near Caernarfon, North Wales. The pilot of the other plane was Squadron Leader Roger Winlaw, a fellow Old Wykehamist who had played 52 games for Cambridge and Surrey. He is buried in the ""Ingatestone and Fryerning Cemetery"" in Essex. Claude Ashton Claude Thesiger Ashton (19 February 1901 – 31 October 1942) was an English amateur footballer and first-class cricketer. As footballer he played"
"Former Millwall, Wycombe Wanderers and Bradford City striker Gavin Grant, 26, is found guilty (along with another man) of committing murder in London in May 2004. Grant was initially cleared of the murder three years earlier but charged again when new evidence came to light. 26 July 2010: Tottenham Hotspur express interest in moving to London's Olympic Stadium after the 2012 Olympic Games. West Ham United is the only club to have officially bid for the venue so far, while Leyton Orient decided against moving. 28 July 2010: After six months back at Arsenal, former England defender Sol Campbell signs"
"Bunny Austin Henry Wilfred ""Bunny"" Austin (26 August 1906 – 26 August 2000) was a British tennis player from England. For 74 years he was the last Briton to reach the final of the gentlemen's singles at Wimbledon, until Andy Murray did so in 2012. He was also a finalist at the 1937 French Championships and a championship winner at Queen's Club. Along with Fred Perry, he was a vital part of the British team that won the Davis Cup in three consecutive years (1933–35). He is also remembered as the first tennis player to wear shorts. Austin was brought"
"Bunny Austin Henry Wilfred ""Bunny"" Austin (26 August 1906 – 26 August 2000) was a British tennis player from England. For 74 years he was the last Briton to reach the final of the gentlemen's singles at Wimbledon, until Andy Murray did so in 2012. He was also a finalist at the 1937 French Championships and a championship winner at Queen's Club. Along with Fred Perry, he was a vital part of the British team that won the Davis Cup in three consecutive years (1933–35). He is also remembered as the first tennis player to wear shorts. Austin was brought"
"Alan Mills (tennis) Alan Ronald Mills, (born 6 November 1935 in Stretford, Lancashire, England), is a former tennis player and tournament referee for the Wimbledon tennis championships from 1982 to 2005. Although each individual tennis match was controlled by an on-court umpire, Alan Mills ran the entire tournament. However, perhaps he was most well known because the decision to stop play in the event of rain was that of Mills, and so his face was familiar to millions of television viewers worldwide, in the corner of Centre Court, clutching his two-way radio and glancing upwards at the sky in search"
"Hugh Butterworth Hugh Montagu Butterworth (1 November 1885 – 25 September 1915) was an English first-class cricketer and a school teacher in New Zealand who was killed in action in World War I. Hugh Butterworth was the first child of George Montagu Butterworth (12 May 1858 – 12 December 1941) and his wife Catherine (née Warde). After Hugh, five daughters followed. George was a solicitor and a tennis player who reached the semi-finals at Wimbledon in 1880. Hugh was educated at Marlborough and at University College, Oxford. In mid-May 1906 he played two matches for the university team in 1906"
"Club star Jessica Jacobs died instantly from her injuries when she was hit by a train. On 18 November 2008 one person was killed in level crossing accident. On 8 April 2011 a woman was struck and killed by a train just after midday at Clayton station. On 16 March 2012 a man was killed when a train crashed into his car at a Melbourne railway station in peak hour. The car and train crashed at the Cheltenham Railway Station about 4.15pm (AEDT) on Friday. The dead man was believed to be the car's driver. On 25 May 2012, a"
"He then returned for a second spell with Widnes, who had by that time joined the Cheshire County Cricket League. He now lives in Warrington, Cheshire. In December 1953 Blair, playing for New Zealand against South Africa at Johannesburg, received news that his fiancée, Nerissa Love, had been killed in the Tangiwai railway disaster on Christmas Eve. Blair was not expected to bat when his turn came on Boxing Day, as an announcement had been made that he would take no further part in the game. In the event, however, he appeared at the crease at the fall of the"
"Dan Maskell Daniel ""Dan"" Maskell (11 April 1908 – 10 December 1992) was an English tennis professional who later became even better known as a radio and television commentator on the game. He was recognised as the BBC's ""voice of tennis"", and the ""voice of Wimbledon"". Maskell was born in Fulham, London, England. His father was an engineer, and Dan was the seventh of his eight children. His family could not afford to take up a place at Latymer Upper School, a grammar school in Hammersmith, so he was educated at Everington Street School instead. He captained the school football"
"of the infrastructure was removed, although roadworks on the central reservation of Stanningley Road uncovered some of the tracks in October 2005. Like the rest of West Leeds, Pudsey was never included in the original planning for the Leeds Supertram, subsequent plans such as that for trolley buses, a revised tram scheme or tram-trains have also failed to include West Leeds. The England cricket captain Sir Len Hutton was born in nearby Fulneck and was called ""the man from Pudsey"". Raymond Illingworth, another former England cricket captain, was born in Pudsey as was the England fast bowler Matthew Hoggard and"
"Syd Buller John Sydney Buller, MBE (23 August 1909 – 7 August 1970) was an English first-class cricketer, and notable international cricket umpire. Buller was born in Wortley near Leeds in Yorkshire. As a player, he was a competent wicket-keeper and lower-order right-hand bat. He played for Worcestershire between 1935 and 1946, having played once for Yorkshire in 1930. In 1939, he was severely injured in the car crash that killed Worcestershire opening batsman Charlie Bull, on the Sunday evening of the Whitsun match with Essex, and missed the next two months of cricket. He made his debut as a"
"doubles, beating the 3rd and 4th Lord Aberdares, then aged 54 and 20, in the final. Crawley joined the insurance broking firm of C.T. Bowring & Co. in 1925 and was a director 1934–67 and a consultant to the firm 1967–73. He was an underwriting member of Lloyd's. At the outbreak of World War II he was given an emergency commission in the Coldstream Guards and served until 1945. He died in Westminster, London, on 10 February 1989. Cosmo Crawley Cosmo Stafford Crawley (27 May 1904 – 10 February 1989) was an English cricketer, rackets player and real tennis player."
"in 1912. He was one of the ""Big Six"", a group of leading Australian cricketers who boycotted the 1912 Triangular Tournament in England when the players were stripped of the right to appoint the tour manager. The boycott effectively ended his Test career. After retiring from cricket, Hill worked in the horse racing industry as a stipendiary steward and later as a handicapper for races including the Caulfield Cup. Hill died in 1945 aged 68 when thrown from a tram in Melbourne in a traffic accident. Hill was born in Adelaide, South Australia, to Henry John Hill (known as John)"
"recalled to the England Test team for the decisive match of the 1930 series against Australia. The move was not a success. Whysall scored only 13 and 10, and was criticised for his lack of mobility in the field, as England lost by an innings. Barely two months later, Whysall was dead. He slipped on a dance floor, injured his elbow, and died within two weeks from septicaemia despite a blood transfusion. Whysall was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1925. William Whysall William Wilfrid Whysall (31 October 1887 – 11 November 1930), generally known as ""Dodge"" Whysall, was"
"death). Otway Woodhouse Otway Woodhouse (1855–1887) was a British tennis player in the early years of Wimbledon. Woodhouse worked for the Great Eastern Railway and later the London & South Western Railway. In 1881 Woodhouse and F. L. Rawson founded Woodhouse & Rawson (a well known company who specialised in engineering and electric lighting). Woodhouse first entered the Wimbledon singles in 1879 and lost in the first round. In 1880 he reached the all comer's final (beating William Renshaw and Ernest Renshaw before losing to Herbert Lawford). William Renshaw won the first of his seven titles the following year and"
"Tony Mottram Anthony John Mottram (8 June 1920 – 6 October 2016) was a British tennis player of the 1940s and 1950s. Mottram reached the quarterfinal of the 1948 Wimbledon Championships in which he lost to Gardnar Mulloy. He was the father of tennis champion Buster Mottram. In the doubles event he reached the final of the 1947 Wimbledon Championships with Bill Sidwell in which they were defeated by the first-seeded team of Jack Kramer and Bob Falkenburg. He reached the French Open's fourth round in both 1947 and 1948, and the third round of the 1951 US Open. Mottram"
"1887) one week after the Wimbledon final. He was one of the foremost men's players on the international tennis circuit between 1886 and 1914. He also played first class cricket for Middlesex and Leicestershire. From 1907 to 1925, he was secretary of the All England Lawn Tennis Club and director of The Championships at Wimbledon between 1907 and 1925. He died in Bramfold, Pulborough, on 24 March 1943. Blanche Bingley Hillyard died in London in 1946. She was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2013. Blanche Bingley Blanche Bingley Hillyard (""née"" Bingley; 3 November 1863 – 6"
"short term deal with Wimbledon, where he managed to help the Dons beat Liverpool in the 1988 FA Cup Final. After sharing in that glory, Cunningham again headed back to Spain and Rayo Vallecano for the 1988–89 season, enjoying an Indian summer and the season was topped off by scoring the goal that secured their promotion to the Primera Liga. Cunningham was killed in a car crash in Madrid on the morning of 15 July 1989, at the age of 33. He was survived by his Spanish wife and their son. In November 2004, he was named as one of"
"and an attachment to a cricket club overseas or the opportunity to study at a local institution. Since 2010 two players, usually winners of the award, have spent a season with Sefton Park and Wavertree cricket clubs in England. Winners of the award who have gone on to play Test cricket for the West Indies include Kemar Roach, Kraigg Brathwaite, Jason Holder, Jomel Warrican, Shane Dowrich and Shai Hope. Gavron survived cancer and heart surgery. Gavron died of a heart attack on 7 February 2015 after playing tennis. Robert Gavron, Baron Gavron Robert Gavron, Baron Gavron (13 September 1930 –"
"to his single first-class match, Boak emigrated to Australia in 1858. While there he played initially for a combined New South Wales and Victoria in the 1861/62 season. In the 1863/64 season, Boak played for New South Wales and the following season for Queensland. His matches for both New South Wales and Queensland came before either state held first-class status. He later returned to England in 1868. Three years after playing for Middlesex, Boak was killed when he was hit by a train while crossing a railway line in Bermondsey, London on 29 October 1876. John Boak John Boak (27"
"on 27 March 2017 in London at the age of 83. The cause was Parkinson's disease and dementia. Survivors include his two sons, Jake and Sean; two daughters, Helen and Kate; a brother, Anthony; and six grandchildren. David Storey David Malcolm Storey (13 July 1933 – 27 March 2017) was an English playwright, screenwriter, award-winning novelist and a professional rugby league footballer. He won the Booker Prize in 1976 for his novel ""Saville"". He also won the MacMillan Fiction Award for ""This Sporting Life"" in 1960. Storey was born on 13 July 1933 in Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, the"
"railway accident. Bernard Crouch Bernard Crouch (1925–1955), was a male international table tennis player from England. Crouch won a bronze medal at the 1950 World Table Tennis Championships in the Swaythling Cup (men's team) event with Richard Bergmann, Johnny Leach, Aubrey Simons and Harry Venner for England. He won the Wilmott Cup for the Staines League in 1954/55 and was also on the Middlesex County Championships winning side in 1947–48 and 1949–50 to 1955. He was an excellent tennis player and a regular member of the Surrey County side and played at Wimbledon on several occasions. He died in the"
"Twenty of the bodies were never found and were presumed to have been carried downriver to the ocean. Among the dead was Nerissa Love, the fiancée of cricketer Bob Blair, who was playing in a Test Match in South Africa at the time. On going out to bat after his loss, he received a standing ovation. After the train crashed, Ellis informed the train's guard, William Inglis, of what had happened and the two entered the sixth carriage, then still balanced precariously on the bridge's edge, in an attempt to save passengers. While they were in the carriage, it tumbled"
"the English international rugby union player, is Flood's paternal grandson. Tim Flood, Gerald Flood's son and went to Frensham Heights school in Surrey. Tim was a good sportsman playing football, rugby, cricket and tennis and played for the school teams. Gerald Flood was on the sleeper train which came off the rails at Morpeth on 24 June 1984. He was interviewed by the BBC News afterwards. V&A Theatre & Performance Enquiry Service Archives; Cameron Mackintosh Ltd. & Delfont Mackintosh Theatres Ltd. Archives; Personally held theatre programmes; Gerald Flood Gerald Robert Flood (21 April 1927 – 12 April 1989) was a"