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Darryn Randall (2 December 1980 – 27 October 2013) was a South African
cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by str ...
er. He was a right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper who played for
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during the 2009–10 season, making four first-class and four List-A appearances. He was born in East London. Randall made his first-class debut against Northerns on 8 October 2009.


Death

Randall died on 27 October 2013 at the age of 32 after being hit on the head by a cricket ball during a match in
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. He died immediately when the ball impacted his head while attempting a
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, an American
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player killed after being struck by a ball during a game; he was the only player in
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history to die of an in-game injury *
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