 He was also selected for England, Wales and Great Britain on the tour to Papua New Guinea, Fiji and New Zealand in 1996.At club level for the Castleford Tigers (1997/98), Keighley Cougars, Salford City Reds (≤1992), Wakefield Trinity Wildcats (2000), Whitehaven and the Widnes Vikings (≥1992) as a or , and top level club level rugby union for Newport RFC (1998/99), Leicester Tigers, Manchester (loan), US Dax and De La Salle Palmerston.Critchley was born in St Helens, Lancashire, England.