The Report Card: Dion Nash
From Cricketing Safari, by Stephen Fleming and Nathan Astle, Hodder Moa Beckett, 2001, p. 171

Huge loss to the tour party and me. He has a competitive spirit that every captain looks for in his players and he can turn a game through attitude as well as ability. Nashy has a major impact on Cairnsey, which the team benefit from greatly. A great example of his ability to make something happen was during the second test in Zimbabwe when we needed to take the last wicket to chase a small target and win the match. The trouble was, time was running out. Nashy, who had been very sore throughout the second innings, grabbed the ball after tea and ignored instructions from the physio that it would probably be better to rest, and demanded to bowl. I let him go after discussing it a little more and ran down to slip. He bowled the first one which was turned down to fine leg for possibly two runs. Good fielding saw some confusion and it was Nashy who retrieved the throw and then ran the batsman out by throwing the middle stump down from 30 metres. We all hope we will get the chanve to play with Nashy again, as he can be inspirational.

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