Ashley Harvey-Walker

Ashley John Harvey-Walker (21 July 1944 – 28 April 1997) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire from 1971 to 1978. He was shot dead in a Johannesburg bar.

Hundred on debut Harvey-Walker was born in East Ham, London and educated at Strathallan School in Perthshire, where he was in the first XI for five years. After school he joined Warwickshire in 1963 and played for the second XI team. He moved to Derbyshire in 1967 where he also played in the second XI.

Career Harvey-Walker was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break and medium-pace bowler.

In June 1975, during a match between Derbyshire and Lancashire at Buxton, a highly unseasonal snowstorm took place.

Not regarded as a regular bowler much beforehand, he was regularly employed when selected in the 1978 season, taking 10–82, including 7–35 in the second innings against Surrey on the notoriously uncertain wicket at Ilkeston.

Following his release from Derbyshire, he played for Undercliffe Cricket Club in the Bradford Cricket League and then emigrated to South Africa. He was working as assistant groundsman at the Wanderers Stadium in Johnannesburg, and only a month before his death had helped to prepare the pitch for the Test against Australia. Apparently, a gunman walked into the bar, called out Harvey-Walker's name, and shot him when he responded.