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Place of Birth: Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
About Dan Piachaud
- James Daniel Piachaud (born 1 March 1937 in Colombo, Ceylon) is a retired Sri Lankan cricketer.
- Piachaud was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off break bowler. Dan Piachaud was educated at St Thomas's, Colombo, and Keble College, Oxford.
- He made his first-class debut for Oxford University in England in 1958 against Gloucestershire.
- In a first-class match for Oxford University against Hampshire in 1960, Piachaud was hit for 28 off an over bowled by Butch White: after bowling a dot ball, Piachaud was hit for four sixes and then a four. After playing fifteen matches for Oxford University up until June of the 1960 season, Piachaud joined Hampshire for the remainder of the 1960 County Championship season.
- He made his debut for the club against Nottinghamshire in July, and represented the club in twelve first-class matches, the last of which came against Somerset in August.
- He took 29 wickets at an average of 29.31 with best bowling figures of 4-62.
- This was to his only season with the club. In 1961 Piachaud represented Oxford University in a further seven first-class matches.
- In all first-class matches for the University he took 149 wickets at an average of 25.25 with best bowling figures of 8-72.
- He played his last match for the University against Cambridge University in 1961. Piachaud also played three matches of first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club, making his debut against Cambridge University in 1962 and playing his last first-class match for them against Ireland in 1968.
- Piachaud also represented his native Ceylon once in first-class cricket in 1968 against the Marylebone Cricket Club.
- He was selected to tour England with the Ceylon team in 1968, but the tour was cancelled just before it was due to begin.Piachaud also played first-class cricket for the Gentlemen against the Players in 1961; for E.W.
- Swanton's XI against an Indian XI in 1964; and for the Free Foresters against Oxford University in 1968.
- He toured Bangladesh with the MCC in 1976-77. In September 2018, he was one of 49 former Sri Lankan cricketers felicitated by Sri Lanka Cricket, to honour them for their services before Sri Lanka became a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC).
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