Team comes first as Anthony Nash happy to pass on penalty duties

Anthony Nash will always be remembered for the role he played in revolutionising penalties in hurling, but the Cork goalkeeper has gone on record to say that he couldn’t care if he never took one again.

It was Nash’s ability to gain yards by lifting the sliotar some yards forward before unleashing a strike of prodigious power that prompted the GAA authorities to tear up the existing rules and start afresh this last two seasons.

Gone are the three defending players on the line for penalties, replaced instead with just the one sentinel. So, too, the tactic of players stealing inches or yards from the designated spot.