Intro
Dan's the man for the Heat, having been the club's most consistent player through the first two seasons of the BBL.
He has played all 17 games in the team's short history, is it's alltime second leading runscorer and it's second leading wicket-taker.
A naturally gifted sportsman, Dan Christian could well have pursued a career in rugby league or other sports but for a cricket career that accelerated when he was in his teens.
His Dad Clem played for the Newtown Jets, his uncle Trevor was an Australian boxing champ, and Dan was a star five-eighth with noted league nursery St Gregory’s College in NSW and played in their 2000 national championship team.
But two broken legs from football meant cricket leapt ahead when he was picked in the Australian Under-19 side that went onto win the World Cup in 2001-02. His sporting heritage stayed with cricket, and he has emerged as one of the most gifted T20 allrounders in the country.
Dan grew up in Narrandera near Wagga Wagga and has an Aboriginal heritage, being from the Wiradjuri tribe in New South Wales. He captained the national Indigenous development squad during a tour of England in 2009.
On his days off Dan is completing a diploma in financial planning and when not studying, can be found glued to his IPad and tweeting under @danchristian54.