diff --git a/processing/src/main/java/io/druid/query/BaseQuery.java b/processing/src/main/java/io/druid/query/BaseQuery.java
index 86587d47ae8..5d1db267156 100644
--- a/processing/src/main/java/io/druid/query/BaseQuery.java
+++ b/processing/src/main/java/io/druid/query/BaseQuery.java
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 package io.druid.query;
 
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;
+import com.google.common.annotations.VisibleForTesting;
 import com.google.common.base.Preconditions;
 import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
 import com.google.common.collect.Maps;
@@ -109,7 +110,21 @@ public abstract class BaseQuery<T extends Comparable<T>> implements Query<T>
   @Override
   public QueryRunner<T> getRunner(QuerySegmentWalker walker)
   {
-    return querySegmentSpec.lookup(this, walker);
+    return getQuerySegmentSpecForLookUp(this).lookup(this, walker);
+  }
+
+  @VisibleForTesting
+  public static QuerySegmentSpec getQuerySegmentSpecForLookUp(BaseQuery query)
+  {
+    if (query.getDataSource() instanceof QueryDataSource) {
+      QueryDataSource ds = (QueryDataSource) query.getDataSource();
+      Query subquery = ds.getQuery();
+      if (subquery instanceof BaseQuery) {
+        return getQuerySegmentSpecForLookUp((BaseQuery) subquery);
+      }
+      throw new IllegalStateException("Invalid subquery type " + subquery.getClass());
+    }
+    return query.getQuerySegmentSpec();
   }
 
   @Override
diff --git a/processing/src/test/java/io/druid/query/groupby/GroupByQueryTest.java b/processing/src/test/java/io/druid/query/groupby/GroupByQueryTest.java
index 13a996f948d..7ffae74f0dc 100644
--- a/processing/src/test/java/io/druid/query/groupby/GroupByQueryTest.java
+++ b/processing/src/test/java/io/druid/query/groupby/GroupByQueryTest.java
@@ -26,7 +26,9 @@ import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
 import com.google.common.collect.Ordering;
 import io.druid.data.input.MapBasedRow;
 import io.druid.data.input.Row;
+import io.druid.java.util.common.Intervals;
 import io.druid.java.util.common.granularity.Granularities;
+import io.druid.query.BaseQuery;
 import io.druid.query.Query;
 import io.druid.query.QueryRunnerTestHelper;
 import io.druid.query.aggregation.AggregatorFactory;
@@ -38,6 +40,8 @@ import io.druid.query.dimension.DimensionSpec;
 import io.druid.query.groupby.orderby.DefaultLimitSpec;
 import io.druid.query.groupby.orderby.OrderByColumnSpec;
 import io.druid.query.ordering.StringComparators;
+import io.druid.query.spec.MultipleIntervalSegmentSpec;
+import io.druid.query.spec.QuerySegmentSpec;
 import io.druid.segment.TestHelper;
 import io.druid.segment.column.ValueType;
 import org.junit.Assert;
@@ -45,6 +49,7 @@ import org.junit.Test;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.List;
 
 public class GroupByQueryTest
 {
@@ -103,4 +108,28 @@ public class GroupByQueryTest
     );
     Assert.assertEquals(-1, compare);
   }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testSegmentLookUpForNestedQueries()
+  {
+    QuerySegmentSpec innerQuerySegmentSpec = new MultipleIntervalSegmentSpec(Lists.newArrayList(Intervals.of(
+        "2011-11-07/2011-11-08")));
+    QuerySegmentSpec outerQuerySegmentSpec = new MultipleIntervalSegmentSpec(Lists.newArrayList((Intervals.of(
+        "2011-11-04/2011-11-08"))));
+    List<AggregatorFactory> aggs = Lists.newArrayList(QueryRunnerTestHelper.rowsCount);
+    final GroupByQuery innerQuery = GroupByQuery.builder()
+                                                .setDataSource("blah")
+                                                .setInterval(innerQuerySegmentSpec)
+                                                .setGranularity(Granularities.DAY)
+                                                .setAggregatorSpecs(aggs)
+                                                .build();
+    final GroupByQuery query = GroupByQuery
+        .builder()
+        .setDataSource(innerQuery)
+        .setInterval(outerQuerySegmentSpec)
+        .setAggregatorSpecs(aggs)
+        .setGranularity(Granularities.DAY)
+        .build();
+    Assert.assertEquals(innerQuerySegmentSpec, BaseQuery.getQuerySegmentSpecForLookUp(query));
+  }
 }