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Nigel Laughton

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Nigel Laughton
Personal information
Full name
Nigel Ewan Felix Laughton
Born (1965-10-12) 12 October 1965 (age 59)
Aldershot, Hampshire, England
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm off break
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1997Oxford University
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 1
Runs scored 6
Batting average 3.00
100s/50s –/–
Top score 5
Catches/stumpings 1/–
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]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Nigel Ewan Felix Laughton". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Player profile: Nigel Laughton". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
  3. ^ "No. 50527". The London Gazette (Supplement). 23 May 1986. p. 7101.
  4. ^ "No. 51295". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 April 1988. p. 4313.
  5. ^ "No. 52891". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 April 1992. p. 6333.
  6. ^ a b "Laughton appointed Bath's Operations Manager". ESPNscrum. 1 June 2006. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
  7. ^ "Nigel Laughton" (PDF). wwww.countygroundtaunton.co.uk. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
  8. ^ "No. 53800". The London Gazette (Supplement). 26 September 1994. p. 13524.
  9. ^ "First-Class Matches played by Nigel Laughton". CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
  10. ^ "Oxford University v Durham, 1997". CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
  11. ^ Pavitt, Michael (4 September 2015). "Pentathlon GB announce departure of chief executive Nigel Laughton due to "significant differences"". Inside the Games. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
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