Bails and Boardrooms

How Cricket Changed My Life

David Nash

• Publisher: Pitch Publishing Ltd
• eBook ISBN:
  9781785319129
• Year: 2021

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 20-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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Dedication
• 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