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    Dion Nash

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    Dion Nash
    Dion Nash in 2013
    Personal information
    Full name
    Dion Joseph Nash
    Born (1971-11-20) 20 November 1971 (age 51)
    Auckland, New Zealand
    Height1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
    BattingRight-handed
    BowlingRight-arm fast medium
    RoleAll-rounder
    RelationsBernice 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 Test8 November 2001 v Australia
    Only ODI (cap 79)31 October 1992 v Zimbabwe
    Domestic team information
    YearsTeam
    1990/91–1991/92Northern Districts
    1992/93–1993/94Otago
    1994/95–1997/98Northern Districts
    1995–1996Middlesex
    1998/99–2001/02Auckland
    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
    Bronze medal – third place 1998 Kuala Lumpur List-A cricket

    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] Nash was a member of the New Zealand team that won the 2000 ICC KnockOut Trophy.

    Suspension[edit]

    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[edit]

    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[edit]

    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[edit]

    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[edit]

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

    References[edit]

    1. ^ Daniell, Sarah (16 October 2017). "Dion Nash: Cricket, cosmetics and cannabis". NZ Herald. ISSN 1170-0777. Archived from the original on 15 December 2017. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
    2. ^ "Fleming caught out for a smoke". The New Zealand Herald. 6 November 2004. Archived from the original on 21 June 2018. Retrieved 25 June 2010.
    3. ^ Shaw, Rod (14 September 2010) Mt Roskill Premiership Star considering a return to Cricket? Archived 9 July 2018 at the Wayback Machine. World Footy News. Retrieved on 27 May 2018.
    4. ^ a b c "Dion Nash: Triumphing". Verve Magazine. 4 December 2017. Archived from the original on 18 January 2021. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
    5. ^ Veera, Sriram (2 March 2015). "Triumph and disaster, the story of Dion Nash". The Indian Express. Archived from the original on 21 May 2017. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
    6. ^ a b General. "Making Skincare Manly with Triumph & Disaster Founder Dion Nash | Nordstrom Men's Blog". weddbook.com. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
    7. ^ Marfil, Lorelei. "How A Cricketer Launched A Grooming Range, Focused On Sustainability And Grew Its Brand To A Global Scale". Forbes. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
    8. ^ "Triumph and Disaster, The Entrepreneurs 479 - Radio". Monocle. Archived from the original on 27 January 2021. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
    9. ^ "Dion Nash: 'Listen as much as you talk'". stuff.co.nz. 10 September 2014. Archived from the original on 19 June 2018. Retrieved 19 June 2018. Dion is married to former New Zealand netballer Bernice Mene

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