However, at the end of the 2019 T20 Blast season Daniel realised he had to make changes as his run aggregate and strike rates were lower than any of the last four years.At the start, with Joe Denly on England duty and Sam Billings injured, he had taken on too much responsibility by also being captain of the Kent Spitfires and his strike rate went down.

Over the winter, he returned to Australia and started to work on his T20 hitting. After a pre-season hundred in an intra-squad T20 before lockdown, he spoke to the coaches about his new, ultra-attacking mindset, and decided it was worth trying out in the Blast.

His new approach this year has been simple: he has attacked more or less from the start, clearing his front leg to open up more scoring areas and getting into his hitting positions right from the outset. The results have been obvious: six games into the Blast, he was averaging 51.4 while maintaining a 167.97 strike rate - a shade over 10 runs per over. In the win over Essex Eagles he was 43 off 21 after the first six; in the tie at Middlesex, he had raced to 49 off 20. 

On September 5^th Daniel smashed his way to 81 off 45 balls to lead the Kent Spitfires with a 29 run win over the Essex Eagles.

Now his best route to England selection will be to continue to try to be the best he can be and shedding the reputation of being a red-ball player looking to anchor an innings.  As one of only a handful of black British players on the county circuit, the Black Lives Matter movement has been at the forefront of his mind this summer.