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Full name | Nigel Ewan Felix Laughton | ||||||||||||||
Born | Aldershot, Hampshire, England | 12 October 1965||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm off break | ||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
1997 | Oxford University | ||||||||||||||
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Source:Cricinfo,5 July 2020 |
Nigel Ewan Felix Laughton (born 12 October 1965) is an English sports consultant and a former first-class cricketer and British Army officer.
The son of Ronald Francis Gerard Laughton and Gillian Hazel Cocks,he was born at Aldershot in October 1965. [1] After leaving Worth School,Laughton taught in Australia at Melbourne Grammar School for a year,before returning to England. [2] After returning he undertook training for the British Army at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst,being commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Black Watch in April 1986. [3] He was promoted to lieutenant in April 1988, [4] before being promoted to captain in April 1992. [5] During his military career he toured Northern Ireland three times and became a helicopter pilot with the Army Air Corps. [6] He was seriously injured in a helicopter crash in 1994, [7] invalidating him out of the army due to the injuries he sustained. [8]
After recovering from his accident,Laughton studied at Harris Manchester College at the University of Oxford. [1] While studying at Oxford,he made a single appearance in first-class cricket for Oxford University against Durham at Oxford in 1997. [9] Captaining the Oxford side,he was dismissed for 4 runs in their first innings by Neil Killeen,while in their second innings he was dismissed for a single run by James Boiling. [10] After graduating from Oxford in 1997,he was appointed as the first development manager at the International Cricket Council, [2] responsible primarily for developing the game in Europe. [1] In 2001,he was appointed National Academy manager at the England and Wales Cricket Board and managed five England A tours. [2]
In June 2006,he was appointed operations manager for Bath Rugby. [6] Returning to cricket,he was appointed director and head of cricket by the Board of Control for Cricket in India for the Indian Premier League and held a similar position for the Champions League Twenty20,a tournament he helped to found. Laughton proceeded to manage the 2011 Cricket World Cup matches played in Bangladesh. [2] He moved into sports consultancy and management in Olympic sports and was team leader for Team GB at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. [2] In November 2014,he became chief executive of Pentathlon GB,though left the post in September 2015 citing significant differences between the board and Laughton. [11]
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