Dion Nash
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Dion Joseph Nash played for the New Zealand
cricket
team, captaining the team in 1999 with the injury of regular captain Stephen Fleming
. On the 1995 tour to South Africa, Nash was suspended for smoking Cannabis along with future captain Stephen Fleming
and team-mate Matthew Hart
.
Nash was a right-arm fast medium bowler, taking 93 Test wickets in a career spanning from 1992 to 2001.
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.
Nash also features in the joke "Q: What's the difference between a New Zealand cricketer and a bolt of lightning? A: One's a Dion Nash, the other's a Neon Dash."
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
team, captaining the team in 1999 with the injury of regular captain Stephen Fleming
Stephen Fleming
Stephen Paul Fleming ONZM is a New Zealand cricketer, and the former captain of the New Zealand national cricket team, known as the Black Caps, in Test and one-day cricket...
. On the 1995 tour to South Africa, Nash was suspended for smoking Cannabis along with future captain Stephen Fleming
Stephen Fleming
Stephen Paul Fleming ONZM is a New Zealand cricketer, and the former captain of the New Zealand national cricket team, known as the Black Caps, in Test and one-day cricket...
and team-mate Matthew Hart
Matthew Hart
Matthew Norman Hart is a New Zealand cricketer. Hart, a left-arm orthodox spinner, played in 14 Tests between 1994 and 1996, claiming 29 wickets including one five-wicket haul against South Africa...
.
Nash was a right-arm fast medium bowler, taking 93 Test wickets in a career spanning from 1992 to 2001.
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
Australian rules football
Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...
in the Auckland Australian Football League
Auckland Australian Football League
The Auckland Australian Football League , begun in 1974, is an Australian rules football competition in Auckland, New Zealand and is one of the leagues governed by New Zealand AFL....
where he was a premiership player with the Mt Roskill Saints.
Nash also features in the joke "Q: What's the difference between a New Zealand cricketer and a bolt of lightning? A: One's a Dion Nash, the other's a Neon Dash."