| Personal information | ||||
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| Batting style | Right-handed batsman | |||
| Bowling style | Right-arm fast medium | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | Tests | ODIs | ||
| Matches | 32 | 81 | ||
| Runs scored | 729 | 624 | ||
| Batting average | 23.51 | 15.59 | ||
| 100s/50s | 0/4 | 0/0 | ||
| Top score | 89* | 42 | ||
| Balls bowled | 1032.4 | 569.2 | ||
| Wickets | 93 | 64 | ||
| Bowling average | 28.48 | 40.96 | ||
| 5 wickets in innings | 3 | 0 | ||
| 10 wickets in match | 1 | n/a | ||
| Best bowling | 6/27 | 4/38 | ||
| Catches/stumpings | 13/0 | 25/0 | ||
| Source: Cricinfo, 23 August 2005 | ||||
Dion Joseph Nash (born 20 November 1971 in Auckland, New Zealand) 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.[1]
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.[2]
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."
He is married to former New Zealand netballer Bernice Mene.
| Preceded by Stephen Fleming |
New Zealand national cricket captain 1998/9 |
Succeeded by Stephen Fleming |
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