Francis Joachim Toomey (8 February 1904 – 14 March 1992) was a New Zealand

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

er. He played three first-class matches for

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in the 1934–35 and 1935–36 seasons. Toomey was born at Dunedin in 1904 and worked as a manager.McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010'', p. 130. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. He made his first-class debut for Otago in February 1935, keeping wicket for Otago against Canterbury in the side's final Plunket Shield match of the season. He made his other two appearances for Otago the flowing season, playing in a Shield match against Auckland over the Christmas period before a match against the touring English side at New Year.Francis Toomey
CricketArchive. Retrieved 31 May 2023. Toomey died at Dunedin in 1992 aged 88. Obituaries were published in the ''New Zealand Cricket Almanack'' and in the following year's '' Wisden''. His brother,

Cecil Toomey Cecil Dominic Gerard Toomey (4 October 1915 – 11 August 1981) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played eight first-class matches, seven of them for Otago between the 1939–40 and 1945–46 seasons. Toomey was born at Dunedin in 1915 and ...

, also played first-class cricket, making seven appearances for Otago in the 1940s.

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