Toby Alexander Radford (born 3 December 1971) is a Welsh cricket coach, former first-class cricketer and cricket administrator.

First-class career

The son of journalist Brian Radford, Radford was born at Caerphilly in Glamorgan in 1971. He played for

Middlesex Middlesex (; abbreviation: Middx) is a historic county in southeast England. Its area is almost entirely within the wider urbanised area of London and mostly within the ceremonial county of Greater London, with small sections in neighbour ...

between 1993 and 1995, Sussex between 1996 and 1997, and Berkshire in 1999 as a right-handed

opening batsman In cricket, the batting order is the sequence in which batters play through their team's innings, there always being two batters taking part at any one time. All eleven players in a team are required to bat if the innings is completed (i.e., if ...

and an occasional

off spin Off spin is a type of finger spin bowling in cricket. A bowler who uses this technique is called an off spinner. Off spinners are right-handed spin bowlers who use their fingers to spin the ball. Their normal delivery is an off break, which spi ...

er. He played a total of 14 first-class and six List A matches. He also played for England in six Youth Tests with a personal best of 79 run against New Zealand in Auckland.Toby Radford
CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 December 2023.

Coach

Upon leaving first-class cricket, he played two full seasons for Berkshire and served the Berkshire Cricket Board as its Cricket Development Officer. After a successful spell as Director of the Middlesex Cricket Academy at Finchley, he was appointed 1st XI Coach by

on 7 November 2007. The highlight of his tenure was when Middlesex won the

2008 Twenty20 Cup The 2008 Twenty20 Cup was the sixth running of the tournament, and saw Middlesex Crusaders winning the tournament after a thrilling climax to the final against the reigning champions, the Kent Spitfires. The tournament began on 11 June 2008 bef ...

. In addition to winning the

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, Radford won the Second Eleven Trophy when in charge of that team, gained promotion to the

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League in his first season with the First Eleven and is recognised as having resurrected England captain Andrew Strauss' international batting career. Radford then moved on to an elite specialist batting coach, working primarily with the ECB at their training headquarters in Loughborough. After working for the West Indies in Barbados, Radford was appointed Head Coach at Glamorgan County Cricket Club in October 2013, taking over from

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. He left after two years in the role on 30 December 2015. In December 2023 he was appointed as the batting coach of Kent County Cricket Club.Kent CCC: Toby Radford and Robbie Joseph join coaching staff

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, 4 December 2023. Retrieved 4 December 2023.

Career best performances

References

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