| Player: | BP Nash |
East Lancs have signed West Indies Test star Brendan Nash as their professional for the rest of the season.
East Lancs Chairman Larry Pearson said: "We are delighted to have persuaded him to join East Lancs in preference to several other clubs who had offered him terms, and we have secured a contract with him for the remainder of the season, as a replacement for Ryan Bailey. It is unusual these days to have a current Test player in the Lancashire League. He is of course no stranger to these parts, having played as professional for Todmorden in 1999, and Werneth in 2000 and more recently in the Derbyshire Premier League. "
A left handed batsman and left arm medium paced bowler, Nash had an outstanding season at Todmorden in 1999 when he broke the club's professional batting record with 1200 runs, including an unbeaten 176 in a club record 2nd wicket stand of 252 with Richard Baigent in a run feast against Ramsbottom.
Nash began his First-class career for Queensland in Australia in 2001, playing for his state until 2006. When his contract was not renewed he moved to Jamaica the Caribbean Island that his father represented as a swimmer in the Olympic and Commonwealth Games during the period 1966 to 1970. Just eleven months after his debut for Jamaica he won his first Test cap for the West Indies against New Zealand in Dunedin. Nash hit his maiden Test century against England in the 5th Test at Port of Spain in March 2009.
He travels to Blackburn next Tuesday after the second Test between England and West Indies at Durham