Chris Tooley
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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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| 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.
Business career
[edit]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.[1][2] He left the role in 2023,[3] and later that year was removed as a director of Lycamobile UK Ltd.[4]
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.[5][6]
Cricket career
[edit]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.[7] 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.[8]
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.[9] 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.[10]
Tooley later represented the Kent Cricket Board in a single List A match against the Worcestershire Cricket Board in the 1999 NatWest Trophy.[11]
References
[edit]- ^ "Kangle leaves Lycamobile". Connectivity Business News. 11 April 2014. Retrieved 17 March 2024.
- ^ "Lycamobile Group announces executive appointments". Lyca Group. 2014. Retrieved 17 March 2024.
- ^ Jackson, Mark (21 June 2023). "Lyca Mobile UK Appoints New CEO Richard Schäfer". ISPreview UK. Retrieved 17 March 2024.
- ^ "Termination of appointment of Christopher Donald Michael Tooley as a director". Companies House. 1 November 2023. Retrieved 17 March 2024.
- ^ "Lycamobile's French company bosses fined and jailed for money laundering", The Sunday Times, Sri Lanka, 29 October 2023, archived from the original on 30 October 2023, retrieved 12 December 2023
- ^ Lucy Fisher, Jim Pickard and Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu in London and Leila Abboud and Sarah White in Paris (3 November 2023), "Tories under pressure to return Lycamobile donation after fraud ruling", Financial Times, retrieved 12 December 2023
- ^ First-Class Matches played by Chris Tooley
- ^ First-class Bowling For Each Team by Chris Tooley
- ^ List A Matches played by Chris Tooley
- ^ List A Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Chris Tooley
- ^ Kent Cricket Board v Worcestershire Cricket Board, 1999 NatWest Trophy