I dunno sarah Football (soccer for u yanks) has had quite a few deaths and alot of violence and the cricket was more about where the match was being held than the fact it was cricket! Cricket is actually one of the safer sports I think they mentioned on BBC that most people assumed that no one would attack the cricket teams because of the popularity of cricket there.
Check out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9s_Escobar !
Still it makes me think of a bush quote "Terrorists don't understand the beauty of cricket(ok it was hanukkah but shh) in this war against freedom" :D