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Bails and Boardrooms is the story of one of Middlesex cricket's best-loved players - a man who used the sport to change his life. David Nash lived and breathed cricket from a very young age. Touted as a future England star at age 15, he eventually found the strains of life as a professional cricketer too great and suffered severe mental-health issues. But the end of Nashy's 16-year Middlesex career proved to be the beginning of something far greater. Determined to make something more of his life, he set out on a journey that would see him build a multi-million-pound business. It was a business that would be his proudest achievement. This book charts Nashy's extraordinary life, from a cricket career of unfulfilled potential to building a business using the lessons he learnt from sport and raising millions for charity. This is a story for anyone who loves cricket or is interested in entrepreneurship. It's a story that shows how hard work, determination and talent can take you almost anywhere.

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Employabilité, métiers et formations

Críquet

Entrepreneurship

Cricket

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Publié par	Pitch Publishing Ltd
Date de parution	22 mars 2021
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781785319129
Langue	English

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Bails and Boardrooms is a considered reflection of the phenomenon that is David Nash; a whirlwind of actions, reactions, emotions, empathy and ideas. It is an easy and enjoyable read containing sage advice at a pace which makes you understand why time spent with Nashy is never dull or unforgettable.
Angus Fraser, former Middlesex player and England Test selector
Nashy is a character, which comes out in the book; and he s a great bloke, which you learn while turning the pages. Cricket doesn t allow for many bad uns and Nashy represents all the good ones - sense of humour, self-deprecation and honesty to the fore. That he has made such a successful second life for himself is a tremendous achievement and now the whole story, told from his heart. Is there no end to the man s ambition and achievement? Go Nashy
Mark Nicholas, broadcaster, writer and former cricketer
An engaging story with real lessons from a life well-lived. Everyone can pick up a tip or two and reflect with the same honesty about what it takes to taste success, to get through the harder moments in life and ultimately be happy in your own skin. Both Bails and Boardrooms would benefit from a few more like Nashy!
Penny Hughes, CBE, Business Leader
A rare combination of humour, honesty and great nuggets of wisdom as Nashy uses these pages to take us on his personal journey through fame, fear and ultimately fortune.
Michael Tobin, OBE, Technology Entrepreneur and Philanthropist
Bails and Boardrooms was a very easy and really enjoyable read. It provided a powerful mix of humour, wise words and tales from a top professional sportsman. Most importantly, it highlighted the need to talk and understand more about mental health and an awareness of how it can affect even an outward-going Top Dog like Nashy.
Nigel Oddy, Business Leader

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Contents
Foreword by Sir Andrew Strauss OBE
Introduction
1. Opening Up
2. My Story
3. Life As A Classroom
4. A Fish Rots from its Head
5. The Best Things Come in Small Packages
6. Adam
7. What s the Point?
8. Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast
9. Honesty is Always the Best Policy
10. No Man is an Island
11. That Which Can t Be Measured Never Gets Done
12. Mopping Up the Tail
Afterword
Appendix
Photos
To Mum, Dad, Glen, Jules and my girls. xxx.
With thanks to cricketarchive.com for the scorecards
Foreword
Sir Andrew Strauss OBE
WALKING INTO the Middlesex dressing room in the late 1990s was intimidating to say the least. The club itself, the club of Brearley and Compton, Haynes and Gatting, has a rich history full of trophies and legends. Being based at Lord s, the home of cricket and the citadel of the game adds to the feeling of grandeur associated with Middlesex. For a young aspiring cricketer like myself, I was both in awe and disbelief that some of my heroes growing up were suddenly on the same payroll as me. The feats of Mike Gatting, Angus Fraser, Phil Tufnell and Mark Ramprakash had all been indelibly marked on my mind as I watched England battle through my formative years with some stunning victories that seemed to put a smile on the face of the nation. Contrast that with some horrifying defeats that sent sports editors thumbing through their thesauruses to find new superlatives to describe England s latest humiliation.
In my early days at Middlesex I felt a little like Charlie Bucket when he got his ticket to visit the chocolate factory. It was glorious to be a contracted professional at Middlesex, but I felt somewhat out of place and undeserving. In truth my cricketing pedigree was pretty much non-existent. I was not one of these superstars from the junior ranks who had been earmarked for a long and successful England career, and my mediocre exploits for Oxfordshire Under-19s had done little to get the seasoned veterans at Lord s excited.
In complete contrast to myself, Middlesex had two potential superstars on their books at that time. Owais Shah, whose extraordinary talent and ability shone with every shot he played, looked every inch an international player in the making. Alongside him was a wicketkeeper-batsman who didn t have quite the eye-catching shots of Shah, but possessed an extraordinary confidence in his game, a streetwise attitude to cricket, and an ability to out-chirp all the seasoned Middlesex England stars. That player was David Nash. In so many ways, David was completely unforgettable.
Nashy was the complete antithesis of me. He was exuberant, extroverted, at ease with his surroundings and utterly sure that he was going to make it as a pro. He loved a night out with his mate Richard Johnson, and yet was still able to back it up the next day on the pitch. I, on the other hand, was still wondering quite frankly why Don Bennett, the Middlesex coach, had decided to take a punt on such an unproven opening batsman. While Nashy was out on the lash in Kingston, I tended to be in my room writing in my journal and trying to prepare as well as I could. I can t tell you how dispiriting it was to see him effortlessly craft another 50 the next day, while I naively fell victim to the new ball. I envied Nashy s attitude almost as much as I envied his gift of the gab.
Fortunately for me, Nashy turned out to be the goto player to make new players at the club feel welcome, whether they be newly contracted cricketers or triallists who often were invited to make up the numbers when some of the second-team players were called away to play in the first team. As such I gravitated towards him and didn t mind him taking the piss out of me for being a jazzer and not having a clue what I was doing. I came to increasingly enjoy my cricket when Nashy was around in the second team, and felt slightly bereft when he was whisked away to play in the first team at the tender age of 19.
My chance in the first team ironically came at the expense of Nashy, who had found life a little harder at first-team level, and had failed, probably for the first time in his life, during the 1998 season. By 1999, however, we were both in the first team, and over the next ten years we spent far too much time in the slip cordon, dressing rooms, cars, bars and nightclubs together often with our wives, Jules and Ruth.
Over the years, I began to appreciate that despite Nashy s brash exterior, he was a guy who thought deeply about life, and genuinely cared about those around him. This was most evident with his mum and dad, who were always there to support him. Nashy was always on hand to chat to players going through tough times, and he had a knack of being able to get people to open up to him about what they were really feeling about any particular situation. I counted on his support and wise counsel many times as I started to make my way in the international game.
It also became increasingly apparent over the course of our time playing together that Nashy was not quite the ultra-confident, happy-go-lucky person that he first appeared to be. Despite giving the impression that nothing fazed him, I increasingly sensed that he was battling internally with the pressures of performing while all the while having to pretend to the world that he was completely unaffected. At first this anxiety presented itself with some of his strange match-time mannerisms (he developed an unhealthy habit of having to walk around the stumps a number of times at the end of every over), and over time this became more extreme to the extent that it was clear he was struggling to get quality sleep and get himself in the right frame of mind to perform.
Given that he was so much the heartbeat of the team, I and others went out of our way to check that he was okay, but he never gave too much away. Perhaps in his mind he was coming to terms with the fact that it was time to move on from cricket and embark on the next phase of his life.
Despite being extremely proud of his lack of academic credentials (an N and a U at A-level was actually quite an impressive feat!), it was always clear to me that Nashy would fall on his feet post-cricket. He had too much about him and was frankly too likeable to fade away into obscurity, only to be remembered for his feats on the pitch. What has been surprising, though, is to see an emergence of both passion and work ethic once he started D G group with his brother Glen. If he had one weakness as a player, it would have been that the hard graft of cricket preparation always came second to the lure of a night out or a curry with his mates. It is clear that he has found his calling in life. He is running a business based on people, raising money for fantastic causes, and developing some wonderful customers and friends in the process.
While he has not sold his company for hundreds of millions of pounds and cannot be regarded as a titan of business yet, he may well be the right leader at the right time - post the COVID crisis, the world is turning away fr