Malcolm Nash
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Full name | Malcolm Andrew Nash | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Slow left-arm orthodox | 9 May 1945|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1966–1983 | Glamorgan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1984–1985 | Shropshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricInfo, 10 June 2012 |
Malcolm Andrew Nash (9 May 1945 – 30 July 2019)[1] was a Welsh cricket player and coach. He played first-class cricket for Glamorgan. Nash was a left-arm medium-pace bowler and useful lower-order left-handed batsman. He made his debut for the county in 1966 and was released by the county after the 1983 season.[2] He captained the county in 1980 and 1981.[3] He took the most wickets for Glamorgan in 1969 when it won the county championship. In 1985, he played his last one-day match for Shropshire.[4] Between 1966 and 1983 in his 17 years career, Nash took 993 first-class wickets, scored 7,129 runs and held 148 catches. He died on 30 July 2019 in London at the age of 74 years.
Early life
Nash was born in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, on 9 May 1945,[2] to a cricketing father who was a member of the local club. He studied at Wells Cathedral School in Somerset, where he played cricket and hockey.[3]
First-class career
Despite the
He also scored two hundreds with the bat, and hit four consecutive sixes himself in one over. His top score was 130, made against Surrey in the first game of the 1976 season. Coming in with the score 65 for 6 in reply to 338, Nash reached his century in 76 minutes.[7] His other century came in 1978 against Leicestershire, when he came in at 78 for 7 and made 124, including five sixes, one of which brought up his century.[8]
When Glamorgan won the County Championship in 1969, going through the season undefeated, Nash was the side's leading wicket-taker, with 71 at 18.98 in 21 matches; he also made 435 runs at 22.89.[9]
Garfield Sobers' six sixes
Nash is best known for being the first bowler who was struck for six
In August 1977, he was also hit for five sixes and a four by Lancashire batsman Frank Hayes.[15]
Nash normally bowled medium-fast, but at the time, impressed by the success Derek Underwood was enjoying, he was experimenting with spin bowling.[16] He later commented, "Sobers came along and quickly ended my slow-bowling career. It was a pretty short experiment."[17]
Limited-overs career
In a
Between 1966 and 1983 in his 17 years career, Nash took 993 first-class wickets, scored 7,129 runs and held 148 catches.[10] Nash served as the captain of the county. In 1985, he played his last one-day match for Shropshire.[4]
He played
Coaching career
After his playing career ended, Nash became a cricket coach in California.[21] Nash then moved to Kansas before returning to Wales in 2013.[22]
Death
Nash died on 30 July 2019 in a hospital in London at the age of 74 years. He was being treated there after he became sick at a function at Lord's Cricket Ground.[10]
References
- ^ Howell, Andy (31 July 2019). "Malcolm Nash, Glamorgan star hit for a record six sixes in one over by Garry Sobers, has passed away". WalesOnline. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
- ^ a b c "Malcolm Nash". ESPN CricInfo.
- ^ a b "Malcolm Nash - a tribute". Glamorgan CCC. 31 July 2019.
- ^ a b "Malcolm Nash: Former Glamorgan all-rounder dies aged 74". 31 July 2019. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
- ^ Hampshire v Glamorgan 1975
- ^ Glamorgan v Somerset 1968
- ^ Wisden 1977, p. 559.
- ^ Wisden 1979, p. 380.
- ^ Wisden 1970, p. 392.
- ^ a b c "Former cricketer Malcolm Nash passes away". The Hindu. 31 July 2019. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
- ^ Cricinfo – worst overs of all time
- ^ "Nash concedes 6 sixes on 31-Aug-1968". ESPN Cricinfo. 28 July 2005. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
- ^ BBC Wales 15/11/06
- ^ Grahame Lloyd (22 September 2013). "The wrong 'un... and a price tag of £26,400: What happened to Garry Sobers' six sixes ball?". The Independent.
- ^ Cricinfo – Most runs scored off one over
- ^ Tony Lewis, Playing Days, Stanley Paul, London, 1985, p. 115.
- ^ "Malcolm Nash", Observer, 3 February 2002 Retrieved 18 May 2013
- ^ Wisden 1977, p. 692.
- ^ Wisden 1976, p. 765.
- ISBN 1-902171-17-9.Published by Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians.
- ^ Observer article
- ^ The Cricket Monthly article