Career

Later, he played minor counties cricket for Shropshire and, briefly, Cambridgeshire, appearing at List A level in the National Westminster Trophy for both teams. In 1985, playing in the Varsity Match against Cambridge University at Lord"s, Toogood took 8/52 in the first innings (adding another two wickets in the second). This was the best first-class innings return by an Oxford bowler for 61 years, Tom Raikes having claimed 9/38 against the Army in 1924.

As of March 2009, Toogood"s feat remains the only example of an Oxford player taking seven or more wickets in a first-class innings since Giles Ridley"s 7/110 against Gloucestershire in 1965.