Daniel Christian (Cricketer)

Some Lesser Known Facts About Daniel Christian

• Does Daniel Christian smoke?: Not Known

• Does Daniel Christian drink alcohol?: Yes

• Daniel initially wanted to become the rugby player like his father but later, he chose cricket as his career.

• He even represented his school ‘St Gregory’s College’ in ‘2000 Football National Championship.’

• At the age of 20, he joined the Australian Cricket Academy.

• He later started playing for the ‘New South Wales’ cricket team for the 2006-2007 season and made his T20 debut in 2006 against ‘Queensland’ at Sydney, Australia.

• When he didn’t get the chance to play for the ‘New South Wales in the 2007-2008 season, he then joined the ‘South Australia’ cricket team and made his first-class debut in 2008 against Victoria at Melbourne, Australia.

• In 2009, he played for ‘Indigenous Australian’ cricket team against ‘England’ as captain.

• He is the 3rd male ‘indigenous’ player to represent Australia, after Faith Thomas and Jason Gillespie.

• He played his first T20 International match for Australia in 2010 against West Indies at Sydney, Australia, in which he picked 2 wickets.

• In one of the ODI series against Sri Lanka, he took a hat-trick and maiden 5-wicket haul by giving just 31 runs.

• In 2011, ‘Hyderabad Deccan Chargers’ bought him for $900,000 for the ‘2011 Indian Premier League’ (IPL) auction.

• He later started playing for ‘Victoria’ in the 2013-2014 season.

• In 2017, ‘Rising Pune Supergiants’ bought him for Rs. 1 crore for ‘2017 IPL’ auction.

• In 2018, ‘Delhi Daredevils’ (DD) bought him for Rs. 1.5 crore for ‘2018 IPL’ auction.