Dion Joseph Nash (born 20 November 1971) is a New Zealand entrepreneur and former
cricketer
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
. He played for the New Zealand
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
team, captaining the team in 1999 with the injury of regular captain
Stephen Fleming
Stephen Paul Fleming (born 1 April 1973) is a New Zealand cricket coach and former captain of the New Zealand national cricket team, who is the current head coach of Indian Premier League team Chennai Super Kings. He is considered one of the g ...
. 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
Lord's Cricket Ground, commonly known as Lord's, is a cricket venue in St John's Wood, London. Named after its founder, Thomas Lord, it is owned by Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and is the home of Middlesex County Cricket Club, the England and ...
ground in 1994.
Suspension
On the 1995 tour to South Africa, Nash was suspended for smoking cannabis along with future captain
Stephen Fleming
Stephen Paul Fleming (born 1 April 1973) is a New Zealand cricket coach and former captain of the New Zealand national cricket team, who is the current head coach of Indian Premier League team Chennai Super Kings. He is considered one of the g ...
and team-mate
Matthew Hart
Matthew Norman Hart (born 16 May 1972) is a former 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.
He also appeared i ...
.
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
Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...
in the
Auckland Australian Football League
The Auckland Australian Football League which began in 1974, is an Australian rules football competition in Auckland, New Zealand and is one of the leagues governed by AFL New Zealand.
An earlier league which existed in Auckland from 1904 until ...
, where he was a premiership player with the Mt Roskill Saints.
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
Bacardi Limited (; ) is one of the largest privately held, family-owned spirits companies in the world. Originally known for its Bacardi brand of white rum, it now has a portfolio of more than 200 brands and labels. Founded in Cuba in 1862 an ...
bought the parent vodka brand
42 Below
Bacardi Limited (; ) is one of the largest privately held, family-owned spirits companies in the world. Originally known for its Bacardi brand of white rum, it now has a portfolio of more than 200 brands and labels. Founded in Cuba in 1862 an ...
. He then founded skincare brand Triumph & Disaster in 2011,
seeing a lack of moisturisers aimed at men. He himself had used
Oil of Olay
Olay, previously Oil of Olay, Oil of Olaz, Oil of Ulan or Oil of Ulay, is an American skin care brand owned by Procter & Gamble. For the 2009 fiscal year, which ended on June 30, Olay accounted for an estimated $2.8 billion of P&G's revenue.
Ear ...
during his cricket days, to some derision. Nash describes increasing acceptance of men's skincare as part of a modern expansion of masculine norms.
The brand name is from
Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( ; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)''The Times'', (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12. was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work.
...
's poem "
If—
"If—" is a poem by English writer and poet Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), written circa 1895 as a tribute to Leander Starr Jameson. It is a literary example of Victorian-era stoicism. The poem, first published in ''Rewards and Fairies'' (191 ...
", 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,
his father gave him a framed copy of the poem, which is written as advice from a father to his son.
The brand, which features natural ingredients from the South Pacific,
aims to be sustainable and minimize pollution, and sells in luxury department stores such as
Selfridges
Selfridges, also known as Selfridges & Co., is a chain of high-end department stores in the United Kingdom that is operated by Selfridges Retail Limited, part of the Selfridges Group of department stores. It was founded by Harry Gordon Selfridge ...
,
Liberty's of London,
Harvey Nichols
Harvey Nichols is a British luxury department store chain founded in 1831, at its flagship store in Knightsbridge, London. It sells designer fashion collections for men and women, fashion accessories, beauty products, fine wines and luxury f ...
, and hundreds of other retailers worldwide.
Personal life
He is married to former New Zealand netballer
Bernice Mene
Bernice Papasina Mene (born 18 January 1975) is a former New Zealand netball player.
Mene represented New Zealand in netball for the Silver Ferns for 10 years, playing 78 tests. She captained the domestic team the Southern Sting from 1998 to ...
; together they have three children.
He attended
Dargaville High School
Dargaville ( mi, Takiwira) is a town located in the North Island of New Zealand. It is situated on the bank of the Northern Wairoa River in the Kaipara District of the Northland region. The town is located 55 kilometres southwest of Whangārei ...
before completing his final year of school as a boarder at
Auckland Grammar
Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The most populous urban area in the country and the fifth largest city in Oceania, Auckland has an urban population of about I ...
.
See also
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List of Middlesex County Cricket Club List A cricketers#N
References
External links
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Triumph & Disaster
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1971 births
Living people
Auckland cricketers
Middlesex cricketers
New Zealand One Day International captains
New Zealand Test cricket captains
Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for New Zealand
Northern Districts cricketers
Otago cricketers
Doping cases in cricket
New Zealand national cricket team selectors
People educated at Dargaville High School
Commonwealth Games medallists in cricket
Cricketers at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
People educated at Auckland Grammar School
South Island cricketers