Jack Daniel (9 December 1923 – 12 October 2002) was an Australian sportsman who played both cricket and baseball at high levels.
Having attended Hampton High School, he made his first-grade debut for the Melbourne Cricket Club in the VCA district competition during the 1940–41 season, aged 16.
[1] Daniel enlisted in the Australian Army in September 1942, and served overseas, attaining the rank of corporal before his discharge in 1946.
In the first match, a rain-ruined game held at the TCA Ground in Hobart, he recorded first-innings figures of 6/37, dismissing Tasmania's first four batsman, and then hit 44 runs in Victoria's only innings.
[5] In the next match, held at the NTCA Ground in Launceston, he took figures of 6/20 in Tasmania's first innings, helping to dismiss the side for only 65 runs.