Ashley Harvey-Walker

Ashley Harvey-Walker (July 21, 1944 – April 28, 1997) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break and medium-pace bowler.
Early in his career he played purely as a top order batsman.

Hundred on Debut

Harvey-Walker played for the second XI team of Warwickshire, before switching to the Derbyshire second XI in 1967. In 1971 Harvey-Walker became the first Derbyshire cricketer to score a century on his first-class debut scoring an unbeaten 110 [http://cricketarchive.com/Derbyshire/Scorecards/31/31736.html Derbyshire vs. Oxford University, 23-25 June 1971] ] [ at Burton-on-Trent. [http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Records/England/Firstclass/Derbyshire/Batting_Records/Hundred_On_Debut_For.html Hundred in first match for Derbyshire] ] .

Later career

Harvey-Walker struggled to hold down a regular place in a weak batting side. His best season was 1974 when he scored 727 runs at 25.96, and also scored over 400 List 'A' runs.
Not regarded as a regular bowler much beforehand, he was regularly employed when selected in 1978, taking 10-82, including 7-35 in the second innings against Surrey on the notoriously uncertain wicket at Ilkeston. [Wisden 1979] . Despite playing in the Benson and Hedges Cup Final he was not re-engaged at the end of the season in a general clearout by the County [1979 Derbyshire Yearbook] .

Murdered

At the age of 52, Harvey-Walker was assassinated when, while attending a bar in Johannesburg, a gunman walked in, called out Harvey-Walker's name, and shot him when he responded. [Death by Misadventure by P Thorn & K.Bartlett. In ACS Journal 2006-8]

References

External links

* [http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/30/30040/30040.html Ashley Harvey-Walker] at Cricket Archive

ee also

*List of cricketers who were murdered