(1910-05-02)2 May 1910 Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
Died
24 July 1986(1986-07-24) (aged 76) Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
Height
5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Batting
Right-handed
Bowling
Right-arm fast
Role
All-rounder
International information
National side
Australia (1932–1937)
Test debut (cap 143)
12 February 1932 v South Africa
Last Test
3 March 1937 v England
Domestic team information
Years
Team
1929–1932
Tasmania
1933–1937
Victoria
Career statistics
Competition
Test
First-class
Matches
2
22
Runs scored
30
953
Batting average
15.00
28.02
100s/50s
0/0
1/5
Top score
17
110
Balls bowled
311
3,741
Wickets
10
69
Bowling average
12.60
28.33
5 wickets in innings
0
3
10 wickets in match
0
0
Best bowling
4/18
7/50
Catches/stumpings
6/–
19/–
Source: CricketArchive, 20 January 2009
Laurence John Nash (2 May 1910 – 24 July 1986) was a Test cricketer and Australian rules footballer. An inductee into the Australian Football Hall of Fame, Nash was a member of South Melbourne's 1933 premiership team, captained South Melbourne in 1937 and was the team's leading goal kicker in 1937 and 1945. In cricket, Nash was a fast bowler and hard hitting lower order batsman who played two Test matches for Australia, taking 10 wickets at 12.80 runs per wicket, and scoring 30 runs at a batting average of 15.
The son of a leading Australian rules footballer of the early twentieth century who had also played cricket against the touring Marylebone Cricket Club in 1921, Nash was a star sportsman as a boy. Following the family's relocation from Victoria to Tasmania, he began to make a name for himself as both a footballer and a cricketer, and became both one of the earliest professional club cricketers in Australia and one of the first fully professional Australian rules footballers. Nash made his Test cricket debut in 1932, against South Africa and his Victorian Football League (VFL) debut in 1933.
While Nash had great success in football, he faced opposition from the cricket establishment for his supposedly poor attitude towards authority. This led fellow cricketer Keith Miller to write that his non-selection as a regular Test player was "the greatest waste of talent in Australian cricket history".[1]
During World War II Nash rejected offers of a home posting and instead served as a trooper in New Guinea, stating that he wished to be treated no differently from any other soldier. Following the end of the war, Nash returned to South Melbourne and won the team goal kicking award, although his age and injuries inhibited any return of his previous successes. Nash retired from VFL football at the end of the 1945 season to play and coach in the country before returning to coach South Melbourne in 1953. After retiring, Nash wrote columns for newspapers, was a panellist on football television shows and was a publican before his death in Melbourne, aged 76.
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African tour of Australia, Dalton had his jaw broken by a bouncer from LaurieNash, who was on a hat-trick at the time. In 1935, Dalton was a member of...
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David Murphy Greg Williams Herbie Matthews Half-forward Tony Morwood LaurieNash Gerard Healy Full-forward Bob Pratt Tony Lockett Paul Kelly Ruck Barry...
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