James Daniel 'Dan' Piachaud (born 1 March 1937) is a former Sri Lankan first-class cricketer.
Piachaud studied in England at the University of Oxford, where he made 52 appearances in first-class cricket — the joint-highest amount — and took nearly 150 wickets as an off break bowler.
The son of James Arthur Piachaud, he was born in March 1937 at Colombo in what was then British Ceylon.
[3] Against Hampshire that season, he was struck for 28 runs off an over by Butch White, having bowled a dot ball followed by four sixes and a four.
[5] Despite this, his bowling performances for Oxford bought him to the attention of Hampshire, for whom he played for in the latter half of the 1960 County Championship, making twelve first-class appearances.
[2] Piachaud first appeared for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in 1962, against Cambridge University.