Malcolm Nash, (born May 9, 1945) was a cricketer, a left arm medium pace bowler who played for Glamorgan. He is best known for being the unfortunate victim of Gary Sobers' six sixes in as many balls. He was also hit for five sixes and a four by Lancashire County Cricket Club batsman Frank Hayes. Despite this, he took just under 1000 first class wickets at a good average of just over 25. He also scored 2 hundreds with the bat. May 9 is the 129th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (130th in leap years). ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Cricket is a team sport played between two groups of eleven players each. ... Glamorgan County Cricket Club is a county cricket club based at Cardiff, playing most of their games at Sophia Gardens, which is located by the River Taff. ... Sir Garfield St Aubrun Sobers (born July 28, 1936 in Barbados), better known as Garry Sobers, was a West Indies cricket player. ... Lancashire (archaically, the County of Lancaster) is a county palatine of England, lying on the Irish Sea. ... Frank Hayes is a filk musician. ...
MalcolmNash will always be remembered as the bowler struck by Sir Garfield Sobers for six sixes in an over during the match with Nottinghamshire at Swansea in 1968.
Nash was a lively left-arm seam bowler who during the 1970`s was one of the best new ball bowlers in county cricket.
Nash led Glamorgan in 1980 and 1981, before retiring at the end of the 1983 season with a total of 993 wickets to his name in all first-class cricket.
A swing-oriented reedman and studio player who was active from the 1940s to the 1980s, Ted Nash is best known for his association with Les Brown and should not be confused with his nephew Ted Nash (who was named after his uncle and was born in L.A. in 1959).
The older Nash (whose brother is trombonist Dick Nash, father of the younger Ted Nash) starting getting busy in the 1940s, when he was a key soloist in Les Brown's big band and worked with both jazz and pop figures.
Nash worked with the famous composer Henry Mancini in the 1960s, and in the 1970s, he was employed by artists ranging from pop-folk vocalist Judy Collins to Quincy Jones (who used him for the celebrated Roots).
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