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Place of Birth: Yeerongpilly, Queensland, Australia
About Ken Archer
- Kenneth "Ken" Alan Archer AM (born 17 January 1928) is a former Australian cricketer and broadcaster.
- He was educated at the Anglican Church Grammar School.
- An opening batsman, he played domestic first-class cricket for Queensland for 10 years, from 1946-7 to 1956-7.
- He played in five Tests for the Australian cricket team in 1950 and 1951.
- His younger brother Ron Archer played 19 Tests for Australia between 1953 and 1956. Archer toured to South Africa in 1949-50, but was not selected for the Test team.
- He made his Test debut in the second test (after a 6th consecutive 12th man pick) of the 1950–51 Ashes series against England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
- Despite moderate scores in that match, and the third test at the Sydney Cricket Ground and the fourth test at the Adelaide Oval, he was then dropped from the team.
- He returned for the first two tests against West Indies in 1951-2, but did not play Test cricket again. Archer initially worked as a science teacher during his playing career, but switched to broadcasting in 1954 when he was recruited by Bob Hynes for the Brisbane radio station 4BC.
- He later became Hynes's right-hand man in the Commonwealth Broadcasting Corporation and succeeded him as its chief executive.
- On 26 January 1980, Archer was named a Member of the Order of Australia in recognition of services to the media.
- On 14 July 2000, Archer was awarded the Australian Sports Medal for his cricketing achievements.
- Following the death of Len Maddocks in September 2016, Archer became Australia's oldest living Test cricketer.
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