Nigel Laughton

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. After leaving Worth School, Laughton taught in Australia at Melbourne Grammar School for a year, before returning to England. 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. He was promoted to lieutenant in April 1988, before being promoted to captain in April 1992. During his military career he toured Northern Ireland three times and became a helicopter pilot with the Army Air Corps. He was seriously injured in a helicopter crash in 1994, invalidating him out of the army due to the injuries he sustained.

After recovering from his accident, Laughton studied at Harris Manchester College at the University of Oxford. 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. After graduating from Oxford in 1997, he was appointed as the first development manager at the International Cricket Council,