Learned Nash stays on course
From The Cricketer International, September 1999

Cricketers are often accused of having too narrow and paochial a perspective on life and of spending too much time in thier hotel rooms when they could be discovering the delights of some foreign land. That is not an accusation to level Dion Nash, the all-rounder who is nothing but a wastrel.

He has been reading the philosohpy of Nietzsche on his country's tour of England this summer and is intent on becoming the first active cricketer to pursue an extra-mural degree course offered to sportsmen by Lincoln University in New Zealand.

This would be in architecture, to follow the BA in Political Studies he already has to his name. John Graham, the tour manager, was formerly headmaster of Auckland Grammer, the leading school in New Zealand. Among his pupils was Nash, of whom he says: "Dion was immaculately behaved and above average academically. Reading books by the likes of Nietzsche, a German philospher, is what makes him a good cricketer."

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