 In a match which Lancashire won by an innings and 80 runs, Nash was dismissed for 2 runs by Frank Watson in Oxford University's first-innings, while in their second-innings he was dismissed for 14 runs by Ted McDonald.Nash studied at the London School of Economics after leaving Oxford and then joined the Indian Civil Service in 1931.He was secretary to the Burmese delegation to the 1937 Coronation and the Imperial Conference of that year, and during the Second World War was superintendent of provinces in Burma, when he was captured by the Japanese.