Bails and Boardrooms : How Cricket Changed My Life

Bails and Boardrooms is the story of how one of Middlesex's best-loved players used cricket to change his life. From a playing career blighted by mental illness to owning a multi-million-pound business and raising millions for charity, Nashy's incredible journey shows how hard work, determination and talent can take you almost anywhere.

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.