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Dion Joseph Nash (born 20 November 1971) is a New Zealand entrepreneur and former cricketer. He played for the New Zealand cricket team, captaining the team in 1999 with the injury of regular captain Stephen Fleming. Nash was a right-arm fast medium bowler, taking 93 Test wickets in a career spanning from 1992 to 2001. He became the first player in history to take ten wickets and score 50 runs in a match at the Lord's ground in 1994.[1]

Dion Nash

Dion Nash in 2013
Personal information
Full name	Dion Joseph Nash
Born	(1971-11-20) 20 November 1971 (age 50) Auckland, New Zealand
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm fast medium
Role	All-rounder
Relations	Bernice Mene (wife) Sally Mene (mother-in-law) Chris Sua'mene (brother-in-law)
International information
National side	New Zealand (1992–2002)
Test debut (cap 180)	7 November 1992 v Zimbabwe
Last Test	8 November 2001 v Australia
Only ODI (cap 79)	31 October 1992 v Zimbabwe
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1990/91–1991/92	Northern Districts
1992/93–1993/94	Otago
1994/95–1997/98	Northern Districts
1995–1996	Middlesex
1998/99–2001/02	Auckland
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA Matches 32 81 120 162 Runs scored 729 624 3,555 2,002 Batting average 23.51 15.59 27.13 20.85 100s/50s 0/4 0/0 5/16 0/6 Top score 89* 42 135* 88 Balls bowled 6,196 3,416 15,689 6,532 Wickets 93 64 255 143 Bowling average 28.48 40.96 28.09 32.74 5 wickets in innings 3 0 10 1 10 wickets in match 1 0 1 0 Best bowling 6/27 4/38 7/39 5/44 Catches/stumpings 13/– 25/– 46/– 50/–
Source: Cricinfo, 1 May 2017
Medal record Representing  New Zealand Men's Cricket Commonwealth Games 1998 Kuala Lumpur List-A cricket

Suspension

On the 1995 tour to South Africa, Nash was suspended for smoking cannabis along with future captain Stephen Fleming and team-mate Matthew Hart.[2]

Beyond cricket

In June 2005, Nash was named as one of the national selectors. In 2008 he became a batsman/bowler for the official New Zealand Beach Cricket Team.

Nash also played Australian rules football in the Auckland Australian Football League, where he was a premiership player with the Mt Roskill Saints.[3]

Triumph & Disaster

After retiring from cricket, Nash was a salesman for spring water brand 420, and held a 25% stake in the water business, before Bacardi bought the parent vodka brand 42 Below. He then founded skincare brand Triumph & Disaster in 2011,[4] seeing a lack of moisturisers aimed at men. He himself had used Oil of Olay during his cricket days, to some derision.[5] Nash describes increasing acceptance of men's skincare as part of a modern expansion of masculine norms.[4]

The brand name is from Rudyard Kipling's poem "If—", which includes the line "If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster/And treat those two impostors just the same". When Nash was about 13 years old,[6] his father gave him a framed copy of the poem, which is written as advice from a father to his son.[4]

The brand, which features natural ingredients from the South Pacific,[6] aims to be sustainable and minimize pollution,[7] and sells in luxury department stores such as Selfridges, Liberty's of London, Harvey Nichols, and hundreds of other retailers worldwide.[8]

Personal life

He is married to former New Zealand netballer Bernice Mene; together they have three children.[9]

He attended Dargaville High School before completing his final year of school as a boarder at Auckland Grammar.

See also

• List of Middlesex County Cricket Club List A cricketers#N

References

External links

• Dion Nash at ESPNcricinfo
• Triumph & Disaster

Preceded by Stephen Fleming	New Zealand national cricket captain 1998/9	Succeeded by Stephen Fleming

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