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| Full name | Christopher Donald Michael Tooley | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 19 April 1964 Bromley, Kent | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1985–1987 | Oxford University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1986–1987 | Combined Universities | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1999 | Kent Cricket Board | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:Cricinfo,13 November 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Christopher Donald Michael Tooley (born 19 April 1964) is an English former cricketer and a business executive,formerly the Group CEO of Lycamobile. Tooley was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born at Bromley,Kent.
Tooley made his first-class debut for Oxford University against Somerset in 1985. From 1985 to 1987,he represented the university in 25 first-class matches,the last of which came in the 1987 University Match against Cambridge University;he won Blues for cricket in each of his three years in the team. [1] In his 25 first-class matches,he scored 667 runs at a batting average of 19.61,with 3 half centuries and a high score of 66. In the field he took 9 catches. With the ball he took 2 wickets at a bowling average of 18.50,with best figures of 1/16. [2]
In 1986,it was for a Combined Universities team that he made his debut in List A cricket against Hampshire in the Benson and Hedges Cup. He represented the team in a further 6 List A matches from 1986 to 1987,the last of which came against Middlesex. [3] In his 7 List A matches for the team,he scored 106 runs at an average of 17.66,with a single half century high score of 62,while in the field he took a single catch. [4]
Tooley later represented the Kent Cricket Board in a single List A match against the Worcestershire Cricket Board in the 1999 NatWest Trophy. [5]
Tooley held senior positions at Lycamobile,a London-based provider of international calling services with operations in several countries. He was described as a "company veteran" when he was appointed as CEO of Lycamobile Group in 2014. [6] [7] He left the role in 2023, [8] and later that year was removed as a director of Lycamobile UK Ltd. [9]
In October 2023,along with other Lycamobile executives,Tooley was sentenced in France to a three-year jail term,suspended,and fined 250,000 euros for complicity in VAT tax fraud and money laundering involving the Lycamobile companies. [10] [11]