Does Playing Cricket Make You Immune From Being A Serial Killer?

[Phil Carter]

Incidents

Hello all,

As jason has ventured into the lesser degree of criminal incident or minor crime, here are the following well-known incidents that have nothing to do with cricketers being serial killers:-:


In 1967 Roy Gilchrist argued with his wife during which time he branded her face with a hot iron. He was found guilty and sentenced to three months probation.

In 1988 Navjot Singh Sidhu beat a man to death following a road rage incident. In 2006 he was sentenced to three years in prison for 'culpable homicide not amounting to murder'. However the Supreme Court of India stayed his conviction in January 2007.

In 1993 Wasim Akram, Mushtaq Ahmed and Waqar Younis are arrested in Grenada and charged with possession of marijuana. The charges were later dropped.

In 1994 Stephen Fleming, Matthew Hart and Dion Nash are fined and suspended after admitting to smoking cannabis at a barbecue.
....Phil Tufnell, while on tour in Australia, punched a hotel bellboy who he had argued with over the colour of the towels in his room, and then proceeded to trash the room until he was detained by hotel security and police. Tufnell spent the night in jail.

In 1996 Geoffrey Boycott assaults a 45 year old woman in France for which he received a three month suspended sentence in 1998.

In 1997 Phil Tufnell is handed an 18 month suspended sentence and fined ₤1000 for failing to turn up for a random drug test after a Middlesex Championship match.
...Retired Warwickshire allrounder Paul Smith admitted to long usage of cocaine and was banned for 2 years.
... Keith Piper tested positive for cannabis. He was banned for one match and fined ₤500.

In 1998 Saqlain Mushtaq and Mohammad Akram were alleged to have been involved in a bar brawl during Pakistan's tour of South Africa.

In 1999 Shivnarine Chanderpaul shot a policeman in Georgetown with a revolver after he mistook him for a burglar. The officer received a wound on his left hand, but Chanderpaul was not charged due to the mistake.
...Peter Roebuck is accused of caning three South African teenage cricketers who he had been coaching. In 2001 he was found guilty and received a 12 month suspended sentence.
....Makhaya Ntini is arrested and charged with rape, but he is acquitted on appeal.
....Ricky Ponting was involved in a nightclub brawl at Kings Cross for which he received a $5,000 fine, a five match suspension and a black eye.

In 2001 Herschelle Gibbs, Andre Nel, Justin Kemp, Paul Adams and Roger Telemachus are fined for smoking marijuana during South Africa's tour of the West Indies.

In 2003 Shane Warne is sent home after failing an earlier drug test, just prior to the start of the 2003 Cricket World Cup. Warne was sent home after a drug test during the one-day series in Australia earlier in the year returned a positive result for a banned diuretic.
....Kaushal Lokuarachchi crashed his car into a bus stand at Colombo, killing a woman and critically injuring her son.
....Shafiuddin Ahmed accused of setting his girlfriend on fire for which she received burns to 70% of her body.
....Andre Nel was arrested and charged with drink driving after being pulled over by police in Australia.

In 2004 Runako Morton is arrested after stabbing his cousin in the chest during a family dispute. He escaped with just a reprimand.
....Warwickshire all-rounder Graham Wagg was banned for 15 months after admitting to cocaine use and he was also fired from his county club.
....Ed Giddins was fined £5,000 and banned for five years by the ECB after being found guilty of placing a £7,000 bet on a county fixture.

In 2005 Suresh Perera is arrested for assault following a brawl outside his home in Sri Lanka. Two men were taken to hospital.
....An unnamed Pakistani cricketer is accused of raping a woman in their team hotel during a tour of Australia.
....Dermot Reeve resigned from his role as Channel 4 commentator after he admits to a cocaine use problem, also confessing that he was high when commentating during the England v New Zealand test at Lord's in 2004.
....Keith Piper, who failed a drug test in 1997, failed his second drug test and was banned for the remainder of the season.

In 2006 Mark Vermeulen is charged with arson after the Zimbabwean Cricket Academy and boardroom are destroyed by fire. He was acquitted of the charges.
....Yuvraj Singh is alleged to have assaulted a guest at his birthday party.
....News of the World tabloid newspaper published pictures of Shane Warne standing in his underpants with a pair of 25-year-old models, as well as explicit text messages allegedly from Warne.

In 2007 Moin Khan, the former Pakistan captain and wicketkeeper, was freed on bail after a brief detention over a complaint that he beat up his wife at home. His wife says that he was drunk while beating her. She also said that Moin repeatedly kept on accusing of her of adultery. Unable to talk properly due to the bruises she suffered, she told that this was not the first time Moin had physically abused her. “He usually beats me whenever he is drunk but last night it just got too much,” said the battered woman who further revealed that her left shoulder joint was dislocated during the beating.
....Liam Plunkett crashed his car into another and is charged with drink driving. He was banned from driving for 20 months.
....Maninder Singh was arrested for possession of 1.5 grams of cocaine.
....Narsingh Deonarine was detained in England for the alleged rape of a 16 year old girl, however he was later released.
....Shoaib Akhtar is sent home from the Twenty20 World Cup after striking teammate Mohammad Asif with a cricket bat.
.... Daryl Tuffey was caught drink-driving. He was disqualified from driving for six months.
....Mehrab Hossain is arrested after his ex wife accused him of assaulting her.

In 2008 Xavier Marshall and Tonito Willett tested positive in the drug tests conducted during a two-week camp in Antigua in August. They were among the 32 players named in a provisional Stanford Superstars squad to face England in the Stanford 20/20 for 20, a winner-take-all US$20 million match on November 1.The Stanford Superstars went on to win against England which meant both of these players missed out on US$1 million as a result.

In 2009 The Sri Lankan cricket team was attacked by terrorists during their tour in Pakistan.
....Former England bowler Chris Lewis was jailed for 13 years with a tariff of nine years for attempting to smuggle 3.37 kilograms of liquid cocaine (street value of £140,000) into the UK from St Lucia.
....West Australian batsman Luke Pomersbach was charged with failing to stop after two crashes, failing to accompany police, drink-driving, assaulting police, obstructing police and escaping legal custody following a drunken drive in Perth's western suburbs. He pleaded guilty, was fined $3,500, and suspended indefinitely by Western Australia.
....Jerome Taylor is arrested outside a local bar in Jamaica for improper conduct, assaulting a police officer, and resisting arrest.

In 2010 Several Indian players were involved in an altercation after being eliminated from the 2010 ICC World Twenty20
....Zulqarnain Haider goes missing right before the 5th One Day International vs South Africa in Abu Dhabi, on the grounds of receiving anonymous death threats. He later is found in the UK and announces his retirement from international cricket.

sources:-

Wikipedia
Cricinfo
MacKay, Duncan-The Guardian newspaper
The Age (Melbourne).
BBC News.
CNN.
Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan
NineMSN.
thelondonpaper
Wisden Almanac (various)


best wishes

Phil

[jason_c]

Its hard to imagine Phil Tufnell being able to punch a wet sponge. I suppose a bellboy was about his limit.

Roy Gilchrist sounds a bit nasty.

[Sickert]

I would just like to quote this:
Did Druite, then, have a known base from which he might have made murderous forays into the East End? MCC records, which give his address as 9 Eliot Place, Blackheath, suggest that he was a resident master at George Valentine's school. But the absence of an all-night train service between London and Blackheath makes it difficult to believe that the Ripper could have operated out of a base there.

[tnb]

Sickert,

Welcome and well found, where is that quote from? None of what I am about to say is particularly revolutionary, and I am sure many others would have popped up with much the same response. But for now, you're stuck with me! :-)

Bear in mind that Druitt DID have a known base not in the East End but considerably closer to it than Blackheath was - his chambers at 9 Kings Bench Walk, Temple (close to the tube station of the same name, if you know the capital). Now these were offices rather than residential space, but we do know that on at least one occasion Druitt used it for something more - it was the location where he chose to leave his suicide note. That in itself is hardly surprising, when you consider that when he lost his position at Valentine's School he would also have lost his accomodation. It may well be that, perhaps on the pretence of working late, Monty managed to bed down at Kings Bench Walk short-term, until he found a new address, and/ or of course to use it for night-time forays East...

Kings Bench Walk is a little under 2 miles from the heart of Whitechapel, or between 30-40 minutes walk at an average pace - and remember Druitt was a fit sportsman, so we can probably shave a little off that time. Even Blackheath, for the record, is only about a 2 hour walk away, a distance which would probably not have seemed insurmountable to a Victorian, witness Hutchinson's walking back from Romford or the journey of Eddowes and Kelly back from Hunton in Kent. Now there is a massive social gap between those names and Druitt, whereby they simply had no choice, but I think we can risk a fairly sweeping statement that to Victorians in general walking large distances was seen as more acceptable than it is to most people today. Now walking 2 hours following a murder is probably pushing it, but I included the detail for completeness.

What I have never been able to ascertain is the procedures for gaining admittance to Kings Bench Walk 'after hours'. Then, as now, only members of the relevant Inn of Court, or those accompanied by one, are allowed into the private space (I even had issues taking photos from outside once) and if then, as now, this necessitated someone standing guard at the entrance, then it may well be that it would have been very risky, or even plain impossible, for even a member to get in in the early hours of the morning (rather than simply gaining entry during working hours and just not leaving)- in other words we could have a D'onston-Stephenson/ Royal London Hospital situation. I tend to believe, however, until it is proved otherwise, that a Barrister would have been granted the privilege of their rank and not questioned too closely about their movements or 'working' hours.

The main objection to Druitt on logistical grounds is usually based on the timings for the journeys we know he WOULD have had to make all the way to Blackheath, in order to play cricket, on at least two occasions (if memory serves) this was on the day following a 'Ripper' murder. However this does not mean he had to schlep all the way back to Blackheath in one go on foot, if we accept that he used KBW as some form of base then he could easily have made it back there and laid low until the daytime rail service began. The timings are tight in the Chapman murder, but not impossibly so.

For the record I don't think Druitt was the murderer. Honest.

[Sickert]

To tnb, the quote came from "The Complete History Of Jack The Ripper." By Philip Sugden. Like all Ripper books, some of it is right and some is wrong. Thing is after so long we may never know what is and what isn't fact. But thank you for your input, it is nice to hear things you may not know.

[David Andersen]

I would just like to quote this:
Did Druite, then, have a known base from which he might have made murderous forays into the East End? MCC records, which give his address as 9 Eliot Place, Blackheath, suggest that he was a resident master at George Valentine's school. But the absence of an all-night train service between London and Blackheath makes it difficult to believe that the Ripper could have operated out of a base there.

Montague may well have had access to his chambers in Kings Bench Walk.

[Harry Poland]

On the question of serial killers and sports. Harold Shipman was in his youth a keen rugby player. I think that Ted Bundy was some sort of sportsman.

The real question here is whether or not cricket can be classed as sport :-)

[Sickert]

On the question of serial killers and sports. Harold Shipman was in his youth a keen rugby player. I think that Ted Bundy was some sort of sportsman.

The real question here is whether or not cricket can be classed as sport :-)

Oh cause Cricket is a Sport